Neil Young’s bandmates quietly return to Spotify

Three members of legendary folk super group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young have returned to Spotify after leaving in February to support the fourth member, Neil Young’s, spat with podcaster Joe Rogan.

David Crosby, Graham Nash and Stephen Stills music is available on the streaming service as of Saturday (July 2), reports Billboard.

Spotify removed Young’s music from its platform in January after the folk legend made it choose between him or Rogan, who it has a $100 million contract with, who accused of spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines on his Spotify show.

Rogan’s podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, is the most popular in the world with an estimated 11 million listeners per episode.

Nash was the first to chime in to support his former bandmate, saying in a Feb. 1 statement he “completely agree[s] and support[s] my friend, Neil Young” and asking his rep to remove his solo recordings from Spotify.

Crosby and Stills joined him in a joint statement the next stay, announcing they had asked their labels to remove their recordings as a group as well.

“We support Neil and we agree with him that there is dangerous disinformation being aired on Spotify’s Joe Rogan podcast,” read the statement.

While we always value alternate points of view, knowingly spreading disinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences. Until real action is taken to show that a concern for humanity must be balanced with commerce, we don’t want our music — or the music we made together — to be on the same platform.”

Music from the three in their pre-Young group, Crosby, Stills & Nash, are back up, as are their solo works, according to Consequence of Sound.

CSN has reunited several times since breaking up in 1970, with and without Young due to personal difference. The trio were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, also without Young.

When a Twitter user asked Crosby why his music was back on Spotify, the musician responded, “I don’t own it now and the people who do are in business to make money.”

I don’t own it now and the people who do are in business to make money https://t.co/TwyI2z2y1w

— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) July 2, 2022

A source told Billboard that the trio will donate at least the first month of proceeds from streams to COVID-19 charities.

Last month, Young announced a new live album that revisits the singer-songwriter’s 2019 across Europe with his backing band, Promise of the Real, due out August 5.