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“Music saved my butt – again!”

HE’S 78 now, but David Crosby is still achieving career firsts. In the Altadena studio owned by his son James Raymond, the pair have just finished cutting a new song, “Rodriguez Tonight”, featuring lyrics by Donald Fagen. “I asked him a couple of hundred times,” laughs Crosby. “I’m a huge fan – Steely Dan are my favourite band,

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