Singer-songwriter Stephen Stills, the first artist to be inducted into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice in one night, underwent a
successful operation to treat prostate cancer on Thursday in Los
Angeles, according to his wife, Kristen Stills.
"Stephen's procedure went remarkably well and he couldn't be better,"
she said. "He will be home by noon tomorrow and the pain will be
minimal."
The 63-year-old musician and activist, who along with David Crosby and
Graham Nash makes up the iconic folk trio Crosby, Stills and Nash (and
sometimes, with Neil Young, an iconic quartet), revealed Dec. 17 during
an appearance on Larry King Live that he had been diagnosed with
early-stage prostate cancer and would have surgery on Jan. 3, his
birthday.
As of now, Stills is still planning to attend the Jan. 25 premiere of
the documentary CSNY Déjà Vu at the Sundance Film Festival. The Bernard
Shakey (Neil Young's cinematic alter ego)-directed film followed CSNY on
their 2006 Freedom of Speech tour, with the Iraq war serving as a
political backdrop.
Stills, ranked 28th on Rolling Stone's 2003 list of the 100 Greatest
Guitarists of All Time, is also scheduled to tour this spring in support
of his latest solo release, Just Roll Tape, most of which consists of
tracks he cut in 1968 in a recording studio that had been vacated
moments before by folk singer Judy Collins.
In 1997, Stills entered the Hall of Fame twice during the same
ceremony—once with Buffalo Springfield, with whom he made three albums
and penned the classic wartime anthem "For What It's Worth," and again
with CSN.
