came to where I was singing one night on the West Coast and brought his guitar to the In a 2000 interview, Collins gave her impressions of when she first heard the song: Stills was devastated by the possible breakup and wrote the song as a response to his sadness. In 1969, she was appearing in the New York Shakespeare Festival musical production of Peer Gynt and had fallen in love with her co-star Stacy Keach, eventually leaving Stills for him. We were just a little too big for one house.' Stills said that he liked parts of this demo version of 'Suite: Judy Blue Eyes' better than the released version the song and other demos of early Crosby, Stills and Nash songs were released commercially on the album Just RollĬollins and Stills had met in 1967 and dated for two years. National Public Radio program All Things Considered, Stills revealed that Collins was present in the studio when the demo tapes were recorded and had advised him, 'Don't stay in here all night now.' Stills also commented that the breakup with Collins Stephen Stills' former girlfriend, singer/songwriter Judy Collins, and the lyrics to most of the suite's sections consist of his thoughts about her and their imminent breakup.
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