In "Stand and Be Counted", he and coauthor David Bender recount the stories of the artists who made a difference and the passionate convictions that moved them.

Crosby's personal participation and his friendships with many of the artists involved give readers a behind-the-scenes look at events from the civil rights marches and antiwar moratoriums of the sixties, to the antinuclear events of the seventies, to Live Aid and the Amnesty International events of the eighties right up to the Tibetan Freedom concerts of today.

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"Often you find your musicians do more bloody good than your government does. Certainly on Live Aid they did." Paul McCartney

"Paul is right. I find myself thinking over and over again that we shouldn't have to do these benefits. We keep having to play catch-up with hunger and disease and poverty and disasters, while our governments waste billions of dollars of our money on things we don't believe in. " David Crosby

From the civil rights marches of the sixties to the Tibetan Freedom concerts of today, musicians have dedicated themselves to social justice. In Stand and Be Counted, musician David Grosby for thirty years one of rock'n roll's many voices for change chronicles the causes, the events, and the musicians who made a difference. Drawing on firsthand accounts of many of the era's most important musical events, Stand and Be Counted contains revealing conversations with more than forty of his friends and fellow activists, including Bonnie Raitt, Don Henley, Pete Seeger, Melissa Etheridge, Jackson Browne, Michael Stipe, Elton John, Peter Gabriel, and Sting.

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This compelling story includes new interviews with such diverse artists as Harry Belafonte, Whoopi Goldberg, Adam Yauch, Phil Collins, Robin Williams, Eddie Vedder, Joan Baez, and Jimmy Buffett. Poignant and inspirational, Stand and Be Counted is an unforgettable document of the history of activism in latetwentieth-century America.

DAVID CROSBY of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young is a pioneering musician and two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the founding member of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills, and Nash. He coauthored the bestselling Long Time Gone.

DAVID BENDER is a founding contributing editor of George magazine. A longtime political activist and benefit producer, he is also the author of a novel, "The Confession of 0.J. Simpson: A Work of Fiction."

Jacket design: Laura Beers; Front cover photograph: David Crosby by Henry Diltz, courtesy of Corbis. Back cover photograph: Live Aid, Wembley, England, 1985, courtesy of J. Langevin/Corbis Sygma Harper San Francisco; A Division of Harper Collins Publishers