Roger McGuinn: A Man's Gotta Do...What A Man's Gotta Do
Chris Salewicz, NME, 7 September 1974
NIK COHN seemed to have it pretty well summed up in his Byrds caption for Rock Dreams: "The Byrds weren't so much a band as a focus, a training camp, where kids could come as novices and learn their trades and then depart, to become famous elsewhere, or disappear, or return, periodically, for a refresher course...only Roger McGuinn remained constant..."
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