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I Love The Byrds But...

Kim Fowley, Phonograph Record, January 1972

IN ALMOST 1972, the Beatles have broken up, the Stones are husbands and fathers, Sonny and Cher are famous again, Jimi Hendrix is dead, and the Byrds are being called a bad group. There's but one original Byrd left, and he's changed his name. He is a slightly plumper Roger, instead of the slightly thinner, more intense Jim McGuinn.

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