Saturday, August 15, 2020

Videos of Summer: Southern Cross (1982)

Crosby, Stills, & Nash released their first music video of the modern (MTV) era with 1982's "Southern Cross", the 2nd single off "Daylight Again". While David Crosby appears in the video in some studio shots with his comrades (you can't miss that mustache), he apparently wasn't really involved in recording the track, which credits other talents, such as Timothy B. Schmit (The Eagles) & Art Garfunkel, as backing vocalists.

However, this is not the complete song, as the video stops short of 4:00, and the last verse takes up 47 seconds. Stephen Stills wrote some new lyrics off a track written by the Curtis brothers.



Update, 8/29: This is the complete version, with the final verse included. MTV edited it off for time constraints back in the day, and never bothered to edit it back in after longer clips became more common:

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