A seldom seen picture of David and his girlfriend in 1969 before her untimely death for an accident.
Not much is known about Christine Hinton because she’s not exactly famous. In the eyes of history, she’s a brief footnote in the legendary love lives of two of the 60’s most iconic musicians.
Christine Hinton was the beautiful, bohemian girlfriend of David Crosby, who as the guitarist for folk-rock sensations The Byrds, one of the leading lights of Los Angeles’s so-called Laurel Canyon scene. According to most accounts. Hinton was a bona-vied hippie. Quick to go on naked beach strolls and roll up doobies at a moments notice.
When Crosby got kicked out of the Byrds in 1967, he took a sabbatical to Florida, where he happened upon the relatively unknown Joni Mitchell performing in a local club. Enamored with her beauty and her talent, Crosby promptly broke up with Hinton to become Mitchell’s boyfriend and de-facto manager, eventually getting her a record deal and launching her to superstardom.
While dating Mitchell, Crosby formed Crosby, Stills, & Nash and started writing the song “Guinnevere” about Mitchell. But their relationship was tempestuous, and the couple broke up before he could finish it. Crosby reunited with Christine Hinton and finished the last two verses of “Guinnevere” about her.
On September 30th, 1969, Crosby, Stills, & Nash’s debut album, which including Guinnevere, went gold. On the same day, Christine Hinton borrowed Davis Crosby’s VW bus to take her two cats to the vet. En route, one of the cats jumped into Christine’s lap, startling her and causing her to lose control of the car, which drifted into the next lane and collided head on with a school bus, killing her. It’s unknown how old she was (to me at least).
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