The foursome showed little interest in regrouping given their individual success, but with the Beatles defunct and Bob Dylan not touring, public enthusiasm remained unabated for CSNY as the new counterculture leaders to record and/or do concerts together, acknowledged by manager Elliot Roberts with his 'pissing in the wind' quote.

Indicative of this commercial clout, only the separated Beatles as a group also achieved gold records with regularity during the same time period, reinforcing the notion of CSNY as the American Beatles. All were gold records, as were the three issued in early 1972 by the quartet: Harvest Graham Nash David Crosby and Manassas proving the group to be appealing commercially apart as well as together. Background Īfter the split of CSNY in the summer of 1970, through 1971 David Crosby, Graham Nash, and Neil Young released solo albums, while Stephen Stills issued two. 17 on the Billboard 200, while the Starbucks sampler peaked at No. The three-disc and DVD package peaked at No. Three single disc samplers were also issued: one of the acoustic material exclusively available at Starbucks in the United States and Canada a second at normal retail outlets and a third included as a covermount disc to the 250th anniversary issue of the UK music magazine Mojo issued as 'an exclusive audio-visual sampler of the new CSNY 1974 box set.' Each of the non-sampler sets also contained a 188-page booklet, and all formats were released the same day, with the Mojo sampler arriving with the September 2014 publication of that edition. It was issued in several formats: a standard compact disc box set consisting of three audio discs and a standard DVD as one pure audio Blu-ray disc and a Blu-ray DVD and a more expensively packaged limited deluxe edition consisting of the material on six vinyl records along with the Blu-ray discs and a coffee table book. Issued on Rhino Records in 2014, it consists of concert material recorded in 1974 on the band's tour during the summer of that year. CSNY 1974 is the nineteenth album by Crosby, Stills, & Nash, their seventh in the CSNY quartet configuration, and their fifth live album, the third as a foursome.

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