Stephen Stills Net Worth, Early and Personal Life, Career

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Stephen Arthur Stills is a 77-year-old American guitarist and singer-songwriter born on 3 January 1945 in Dallas, Texas, United States, and is known for his work with the Buffalo Springfield, Stills & Nash, and Crosby.

Stills has sold over 35 million albums as a solo artist and as a participant in two successful bands. He was ranked 28th on Rolling Stone’s list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” in 2003 and 47th in 2011.

Stills became the first person to be initiated into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice with his bands on the same night

He began his professional career with Buffalo Springfield, where he wrote “For What It’s Worth,” which became one of the 1960s’ most distinguishable songs. He also wrote the songs “Sit Down, I Think I Love You,” “Bluebird,” and “Rock & Roll Woman” for the band.

Its biggest solo hit titled “Love the One You’re With,” reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100. Stills followed this with a string of solo albums before establishing Manassas with Chris Hillman in 1972. Young reconnected with CSN after a four-year hiatus for a concert tour in the summer of 1974, which was recorded and released in 2014 as CSNY 1974.

Aside from Stephen still’s net worth, this article will also provide you with some detailed but summarized information about Stephen still, such as his biography, career, and achievements.

Early Life

William Arthur Stills (1915-1986) and Talitha Quintilla Collard brought up Stills in Dallas (1919–1996). As a teenager growing up in a military family, he moved around and became interested in blues and folk music.

He was diagnosed with partial hearing loss in one ear when he was barely nine years old,  As he grew older, his hearing loss situation became worsened.

In the early 1960s, Stills dropped out of Louisiana State University. He was a part of several bands, including the Continentals, which included future Eagles guitarist Don Felder. Stills also performed solo at Gerde’s Folk City, a well-known Greenwich Village coffeehouse.

Stills eventually landed in the Au Go Go Singers, a nine-member vocal harmony group that was the house act at New York City’s famous Cafe au Go Go.

After that, Stills and four other former Au Go Go Singers members formed The Company, a folk-rock band.

Stills met guitarist Neil Young during the Company’s six-week tour of Canada. Stills stated on the VH1 CSNY Legends special that Young was doing what he had always wanted to do: “play folk music in a rock band.” The Company disbanded in New York after four months; Stills did session work and auditioned for various roles.

Life and Career

Stills, Furay, and Young reformed Buffalo Springfield in Los Angeles and formed the core of the band. Legend has it that Stills and Furay identified Young’s converted hearse and flagged him down, a meeting described in a recent solo track “Round the Bend”.

The twin lead guitars of Stills and Young gave it a hard edge, and that combination assisted Buffalo Springfield to become a critical success.

Buffalo Springfield, according to Rolling Stone, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and other sources, helped pioneer the genres of folk rock and country rock.

Distrust in their administration, coupled with the arrest and deportation of bassist Bruce Palmer, exacerbated the group’s already strained relationships and led to Buffalo Springfield’s demise.

The band officially disbanded in May 1968, but contractual obligations required the recording and release of a final studio album titled The Last Time Around.

After Buffalo Springfield dissolved, Stills co-wrote half of the 1968 Super Session album with Al Kooper, including a cover of Donovan’s titled “Season Of The Witch” that received massive radio play on progressive FM radio formats.

Mike Bloomfield was supposed to play on the entire album but did not show up for the second day of recording.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (1969–1970)

Crosby, Stills & Nash was founded in late 1968 by Stills, David Crosby of the Byrds, and Graham Nash of The Hollies. A number of songs on the group’s debut album were inspired by Stills’ on-and-off relationship with singer Judy Collins. The album ranked number six in the United States and was certified quadruple platinum.

Crosby and Nash played guitar on their own songs, while drummer Dallas Taylor contributed four tracks and drummer Jim Gordon contributed a fifth. On his own songs, Stills played all of the bass, organ, and lead guitar parts, as well as acoustic guitar.

To be able to tour and enhance the sound, the band decided to invite Neil Young to join them for their first tour and second album, forming the quartet Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.  The immediate tour began in August 1969 and ended in January 1970. The musicians frequently argued during the recording, particularly Young and Stills, who both did fight for control.

Peak solo years (1970–1971)

Following CSNY’s success, all four members set to release high-profile solo albums. Stills’ eponymous solo debut album was released in 1970,  featuring guests Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Cass Elliot, Booker T. Jones, and Ringo Starr, as well as David Crosby, Graham Nash, Rita Coolidge, and CSNY drummers Dallas Taylor and Johnny Barbata.

It gave Stills the No. 14 hit single titled “Love the One You’re With,” as well as another US top 40 hits, “Sit Yourself Down,” which peaked at 37. The album made it to number three on the US charts, a solo career high. Stills’ solo album was the best-selling of the four at the time of its release.

Only six months later, Stills released Stephen Stills 2, which featured “Change Partners” and “Marianne” which was recorded in Miami. Both of these singles missed the top 40 in the United States, reaching a peak at 43 and 42, respectively, while the album hit its peak at number 8. Only a month after its release, this album was certified gold in the United States.

Regardless of the fact that “Change Partners” was written before the creation of CSN, Nash saw it as a metaphor for the many relationships in CSNY.

Stills recorded 23 songs for the album and had intended to release a double album, but Atlantic refused. In support of this album, Stills embarked on his first solo tour, performing in major arenas across the United States with an eight-piece band that included the Memphis Horns.

CSN reunion and solo years (1977–1979)

Stills’ performances with Crosby and Nash in late 1976 and early 1977 resulted in the trio’s permanent reunion. They released the CSN album in 1977 and tried again unsuccessfully in 1978. Between   1977 and 1978, the band played major arenas such as Madison Square Garden and the Los Angeles Forum, and during the 1977 tour, they made a visit to President Jimmy Carter at the White House.

In October 1978, Stills released his final album, Thoroughfare Gap, on Columbia Records. It was relatively ineffective, reaching number 84 on the US charts. Stills only performed solo once in 1977 and 1978, at the Bread and Roses Festival in 1978.

Stills recorded one of the first fully digital albums in 1979, but it was never released because the record company did not think it was commercial enough.

CSN only performed twice in 1979, both times at Madison Square Garden for Musicians United for Safe Energy. Their performance was recorded and released on the album The Muse Concerts for a Non-Nuclear Future.

2000

This CSNY reunion did result in CSNY reunion tours in 2000, their first since 1974. The CSNY2K tour with the reformed super quartet in the United States and Canada grossed $42.1 million, making it the eighth top-grossing tour of 2000.

The Freedom Of Speech tour, which took place in 2006, was recorded on the album Deja Vu Live. CSN also toured with Stills in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2009. The tour in 2005 supported their Gold-certified album Greatest Hits, while the tour in 2009 supported the CSN demos album Demos.

Stills released Man Alive! in 2005, his first solo album in 14 years. Man Alive! was released on the small English independent folk rock label Talking Elephant and received little critical acclaim.

The album failed to chart on either side of the Atlantic, and the few critics who did review it was unimpressed.   This included songs from the 1970s to the present, including “Spanish Suite,” which was originally recorded with Herbie Hancock in the late 1970s.

Stills went on tour as a solo artist with “the Quartet” throughout 2006 and 2007, which included drummer Joe Vitale, either Mike Finnigan or session player Todd Caldwell on keyboards and Kenny Passarelli on bass.

In 2007, he released Just Roll Tape, a discovered recently tape of Stills singing demos of unreleased songs during the last hour of a Judy Collins session in 1968, after the breakup of the Buffalo Springfield.

Stills made his first solo tour of Europe in 2008, which resulted in the release of the 2009 live album and video Live At Shepherds Bush, which was recorded in London, England.

Also in 2009, he released Pieces by Manassas, a compendium of alternate takes and unreleased songs from Stills’ band recorded between 1971 and 1973. This was supposed to be the first in a series of archival releases, but none have followed.

2010

CSN toured with Stills in 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2015. CSN 2012 was the result of the 2012 tour.

Stills contributed a song, “Low Barefoot Tolerance,” to the soundtrack of J. Ralph’s documentary, Wretches & Jabberers, in 2011.

Also in 2010, Stills restructured Buffalo Springfield with Neil Young and Richie Furay for the Bridge School Benefit 2010. This was to be accompanied by a full tour in 2012, but this never happened.

Stills released the album titled Can’t Get Enough with Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Barry Goldberg as the blues band the Rides on August 27, 2013, and the band went on tour in support of this release.

Personal Life

From 1968 to 1969, Stills collaborated with musician Judy Collins in writing the song “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” for her. He had an affair with actress and singer-songwriter Nancy Priddy, who inspired the song “Pretty Girl Why” by Buffalo Springfield.

Stills and Graham Nash both had short-term relationships with Rita Coolidge, which led to the band’s initial breakup in 1970. Stills met his first wife, a French singer-songwriter, Véronique Sanson, during a Manassas tour in France.

They tied the knot on March 14, 1973, which gave rise to Christopher’s existence, their son, who was born in 1974. In 1979, they divorced.

Stills told Rolling Stone in 1976, “My hearing has become a big problem for me. If I keep playing and touring like this, I’ll go deaf.” He married American model Pamela Ann Jordan in 1988, and they had a daughter, Eleanor. Kristen Hathaway is his third wife, whom he married in 1996.

Harriet Tunis gave birth to Stills’ son, Justin Stills, in 1972. In 1997, Justin was severely wounded while snowboarding on Mt. Charleston, just outside of Las Vegas.

His treatment and recovery were featured in an episode of Discovery Health’s documentary series Trauma: Life in the ER. Another son, Henry, has Asperger syndrome and is featured in the 2007 documentary Autism: The Musical.

Eleanor Stills, his daughter, is a photographer who attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Eleanor has been in charge of all the latest Crosby, Stills, and Nash photography since her graduation.

Stills has another daughter, Alex, who is a student at Emerson College in Boston and a member of the rock band Stilljill. His son Chris and daughter Jennifer are both musicians. Oliver Ragland, his youngest son, was born in 2004 and named after Neil Young, whose maternal family name is Ragland.

Stills has been engaged in liberal causes and politics for a long time. He was a delegate in previous years and served on the Democratic Party’s credentials committee.

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