{"id":487323,"date":"2019-06-22T13:34:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=851476"},"modified":"2019-06-22T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:34:21","slug":"stephen-stills-pays-tribute-to-csny-manager-elliot-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/stephen-stills-pays-tribute-to-csny-manager-elliot-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Stills Pays Tribute to CSNY Manager Elliot Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/GettyImages-95743794.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/stephen-stills\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stephen-stills\" data-tag=\"stephen-stills\">Stephen Stills<\/a> remembered legendary music manager Elliot Roberts, who helped guide the careers of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and CSNY, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/elliot-roberts-neil-young-manager-dead-851390\/\">Roberts\u2019 death<\/a> Friday at the age of 76.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/stills\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stills\" data-tag=\"stills\">Stills<\/a> called Roberts \u201cprobably the kindest, gentlest, and far and away the funniest man I ever&nbsp;worked with in Show Business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was also tough as a barbed wire fence, fiercely loyal and keenly observant; guarding the best interests of his clients with uncommon tenacity and skill,\u201d Stills wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut his greatest gift was his soulful, open heart. No doubt it was the source of his sensitivity and singular understanding of the courageous honesty with which a great artist willingly reveals their soul and transports us. He allowed himself to feel the vulnerability of being fully immersed in the moment, yet oddly untethered. It is a profound experience and not easily undertaken. I have seen him do it, and felt him with me, swimming in the ether.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roberts, who in addition to being Young\u2019s longtime manager also worked alongside artists ranging from Tom Petty, Tracy Chapman and the Cars, died Friday, a rep for Roberts\u2019 Lookout Management confirmed to <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. No cause of death was revealed.<\/p>\n<p>In his statement, Stills praised Roberts\u2019 \u201cunique ability to recognize a great artist when he saw one. His&nbsp;natural empathy was perfectly suited for his emergence as an enormously impactful&nbsp;personal manager to a collection of the most legendary artists of our time. I am honored to have been his friend, forever grateful that he chose to represent me. I truly loved Elliot Roberts and shall miss him beyond measure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stills\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/crosby\/\" id=\"auto-tag_crosby\" data-tag=\"crosby\">Crosby<\/a>, Stills, Nash &amp; Young band mate Graham Nash previously said in a statement, \u201cHe was the glue that kept CSNY together in our early years and I will certainly miss him with sadness in my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/stephen-stills-tribute-elliot-roberts-851476\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Stills remembered legendary music manager Elliot Roberts, who helped guide the careers of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and CSNY, following Roberts\u2019 death Friday at the age of 76. In a statement to Rolling Stone, Stills called Roberts \u201cprobably the kindest, gentlest, and far and away the funniest man I ever&nbsp;worked with in Show Business.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-487323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 16:21:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}