Nobody really talks about it much, but the Byrds were one of the '60s' most restless bands. Other groups jumped genres and evolved as the decade wore on, but a lot of these twists and turns were means ...
It never seemed like Gram Parsons would last a long time in The Byrds, but being asked to play one show clearly proved to be ...
Over the years, one by one, the founding members – David Crosby, Chris Hillman, Michael Clarke – departed. So did their replacements – including Gram Parsons, the country-rock pioneer who made one ...
In 1967, the Byrds recorded one of the finest records of that landmark year: The Notorious Byrd Brothers, a shimmering, flowing, eclectic collection of songs, all bound into a magnificent cohesive ...
The Byrds released 'Eight Miles High' that should have been a chart-topping success, but was banned by radio stations for its ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anyone who clicked on this article knows that the Byrds are one of the greatest and most influential rock groups of all time: They ...
One of the most famous classic rock songs of the 1960s is The Byrds’ “Turn! Turn! Turn!” A star who was not a member of The Byrds read a passage from the Bible and subsequently wrote the song. The ...
In February 1990, a little over a year after Roy Orbison died from a sudden heart attack, an all-star tribute concert was held in his honor at the Universal Ampitheater in Los Angeles. Everyone from ...
How could a self-respecting rock musician truly rebel in 1968? This, after all, was after the Summer of Love, a time when musical and cultural conventions were regularly being upended. For two ...
The Byrds were famously the first rock ’n’ roll band to be signed to Columbia Records – no mean feat considering the label's longstanding love affair with jazz and classical Broadway show tunes, ...
When The Byrds released "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" in 1968, it was a commercial failure. A half century after its debut, the album has become a classic. THE BYRDS: (Singing) Nothing was delivered. And ...