Nash’s life as a libertine

Graham Nash is still passionate about sex, drugs, and rock and roll at age 80, said Simon Hattenstone in The Guardian. “That’s what my life was. And is,” he says. Sex did much to launch a career that’s spanned more than six decades and two Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions, as a member of Crosby, Stills and Nash and the Hollies. Growing up in England, he found that “Once I could play three chords on the guitar, my attractiveness to the ladies went up sky-high. I was like: ‘Oh, I see!’” When the Hollies hit the charts, opportunity abounded, and he indulged heavily in both the sex and the drug-fueled partying— a lifestyle he figures social media has ruined for today’s rock stars. “There is no privacy anymore. And once it’s on the net it will never leave. And that’s terrifying because we’ve all done incredibly stupid things.” Today he’s married to a woman 37 years his junior, and crowed in a 2018 interview that his sex life was “insane. It’s better than it’s ever been.” He’s also still rocking—both touring and recording. Marijuana remains a daily habit, one he credits with “changing my life completely,” and allowing him to focus on life’s bright side. “I’m trying to live the best life I can,” he says, “and I want to do that until they close the coffin.”