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Byrds Eye View

Profile by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, June 1971

But I was so much older then,I’m younger than that now. ...

Going Up the Country: The Byrds and Sweetheart of the Rodeo

Retrospective by Bill Wasserzieher, ICE, August 2003

THOUGH OPINIONS differ on who recorded the first country-rock album, there is no question that the Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo was the first one ...

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The Byrds' David Crosby (1967)

Interview by Ted Alvy, Rock's Backpages audio, 30 August 1967

The Cros talks about the new vibe of co-operation between musicians, Monterey, the disintegration of Haight-Ashbury, seeing Cream play the Fillmore the night before, and all kinds of other fine stuff

File format: mp3; file size: 36.4mb, interview length: 39' 47" sound quality: ***

Chris Hillman, Roger McGuinn and Gene Clark (1977)

Interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages audio, 30 April 1977

The three former Byrds discuss the prospect of being onstage together after some years apart; the possibility of a new Byrds album, and their own new bands and albums: Roger McGuinn's Thunderbyrd, Chris Hillman's Slippin' Away, and Gene Clark's Two Sides to Every Story.

File format: mp3; file size: 8.2mb, interview length: 8' 31" sound quality: ****

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Skyrocket to Success: Byrds Utilize Work, Talent

Profile by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 2 June 1965

THE BYRDS are currently one of the hottest groups in the country and some may say they're also one of the luckiest. ...

The Rolling Stones, The Byrds, Paul Revere & The Raiders: Long Beach Arena, Long Beach CA

Live Review by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 2 June 1965

STONES SHOW WAS REALLY A ROCKER ...

The Byrds: Ciro's, Sunset Strip, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 16 June 1965

Just Like Beatlemania; Byrds Drawing Big Crowds ...

Derek Taylor Reports: The Byrds Fly High And It's Time To Crow

Report by Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, 23 June 1965

FOR THE BYRDS, the time has come. ...

The Byrds, The Everly Brothers, Johnny Cash, P.J. Proby et al: Freedom From Hunger Benefit, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 23 June 1965

Most Fantastic Show Ever! ...

The Byrds: Strictly for The Byrds!

Report by Derek Taylor, Melody Maker, 17 July 1965

THE BYRDS happened. Suddenly, with little enough warning for any of us. For me, it started a couple of days after I arrived in Hollywood ...

The Beatles Will Make the Scene Here Again, but the Scene Has Changed

Overview by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 11 August 1965

JOHN, PAUL, George and Ringo are bringing it all back home. That means the Beatles are returning to the United States. They will arrive Friday ...

The Byrds: Flamingo Club, London

Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 14 August 1965

FANS GO COOL OVER TOO-COOL BYRDS ...

The Byrds, Donovan, Kenny Lynch et al: Finsbury Park Astoria, London

Live Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 20 August 1965

Byrds' Weak Stage Act ...

The Byrds: 'That Criticism Is Fair!'

Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 21 August 1965

...say the Byrds to David Griffiths ...

Bird's Eye View of the Byrds

Report and Interview by Dawn James, Rave, September 1965

Or 5 Byrds in the hand are worth a crazy, unexpected interview with Rave writer Dawn James... ...

Beat Music Background: Carnaby Street — New Way To Shop

Report by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 18 September 1965

WHILE ENGLAND has its huge department stores with multiple floors crammed with everything from needles and thread to tuxedos and minks, it also boasts a ...

The Byrds Have Flown

Report by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, October 1965

The Byrds flew away (by T.W.A.) on August 19th after a very controversial tour over here. Just before they left they had this last talk ...

Sonny & Cher, Beau Brummels, The Byrds, Glen Campbell et al: Cow Palace, Daly City CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 4 October 1965

Rock-and-Roll Party Bedlam ...

The Fabulous Hallowe'en Party

Report by Nancy Lewis, Fabulous, 30 October 1965

Spooks, spirits and all sorts of scary things — that's what Hallowe'en is made of. Best way to avoid these frights is to get together with friends and have a party! So that's just what ...

Those Byrds Flew In For a Gig — You Dig?

Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 10 December 1965

THE BYRDS was here. Between an appearance in Saginaw Monday and one in Cleveland Wednesday, the California-based singers dashed into Detroit to tape numbers for ...

On Records: The Folk-Rock Rage

Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 30 January 1966

FOLK-ROCK, which mixes the simplicity of folk music with the frenetic rhythmic heat of the electrically amplified sound of rock 'n' roll, caused one of ...

A Symposium: Is Folk Rock Really 'White Rock'?

Letter by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 20 February 1966

TO THE EDITOR: ...

Three Fans Interview Two Byrds

Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 12 March 1966

Every now and then The BEAT staff gets a little lazy and lets fans do our writing for us. The following interview with Gene Clark and Jim McGuinn ...

On the Beat

Column by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 26 March 1966

SAD NEWS for Byrd lovers — Gene Clark is suffering from "nervous strain" and has been advised by doctors not to undertake any further personal ...

Ray Charles, Little Stevie Wonder, The Beach Boys, the Byrds, the Marvelettes, the McCoys: Yankee Stadium, the Bronx NY

Live Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 16 June 1966

Pop Eye: Soundblast '66 ...

The Beach Boys, Lovin' Spoonful, Percy Sledge, The Byrds, Chad & Jeremy: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 1 July 1966

SOUND MARS SPECTACULAR ...

Psychedelics: That's The New Fad

Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 17 July 1966

The Pop movement has become old-hat now. In its place a brand new gimmick has started to sweep American discotheques. ...

Tempo: Coltrane, Shankar and All That Rock & Roll

Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, August 1966

IN OUR FEATURE on the Byrds (in the July issue) they credited several sources of unconventional music as influences. They were quite specific about Indian ...

The Byrds: Fifth Dimension (CBS)

Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 1 October 1966

WHERE HAVE ALL THE YOUNG BYRDS GONE? ...

The Byrds, Lothar and the Hand People: Village Gate, New York NY

Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 7 October 1966

Byrds Fuse Jazz, Rock 'n' Roll and Con Edison Group From Coast Brightens Electronic Entertainment at The Village Gate ...

Jim McGuinn & David Crosby: My Favorite Records

Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, December 1966

By Jim McGuinn (Leader of the Byrds) ...

Pop Eye: Singles

Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 26 January 1967

YOU KNOW something's fishy when you see that elastic grin on Brian Jones's face for the record jacket The title above tells all: 'Let's Spend ...

How to set a Byrd on fire!

Report by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, 18 February 1967

Hollywood, Tuesday ...

Beatle Blind Date: Paul McCartney reviews the new pop singles

Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 25 February 1967

LEE DORSEY: 'Rain Rain Go Away' (Stateside) Lee Dorsey. It's in the same old vein and it'll be a hit. Sometimes I wonder if he ...

What's In Store For Drake Levin (Ex-Raider), Gene Clark (Ex-Byrd)

Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, March 1967

Will they start a store together? Maybe a diner or a hockey team, or mow lawns? Naw.... because the other day we were sitting on ...

Peter, Paul & Mary, the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield: Valley Music Centre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 4 March 1967

P, P & M protest ...

The Byrds: Speakeasy, London

Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 25 March 1967

A SUSPICIOUS audience confronted the Byrds when they played their only gig, an informal affair at London's Speakeasy Club, last Tuesday — no doubt recollecting ...

The Byrds: Speakeasy, London

Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 25 March 1967

THE BYRDS are an exciting, progressive group whose records get better and better and, on the strength of their new album Younger Than Yesterday can ...

Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston, John Lee Hooker, Byrds, Prince Buster et al Album Reviews

Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 6 May 1967

Some sophisticated new Motown albums ...

The Byrds: Younger Than Yesterday (CBS)

Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 13 May 1967

No other word for the Byrds but beautiful ...

The Byrds: Younger Than Yesterday (Columbia CS 9441)

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, June 1967

Byrds Glorious ...

Platter Chatter: New Albums from Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds, The Doors et al

Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, July 1967

SURREALISTIC PILLOW will make anyone with good musical taste a Jefferson Airplane admirer. A beautiful blend of vocal and instrumental harmonies flows through everything this ...

Pills and Pop Music: A Psychedelicate Subject

Comment by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 1967

One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you Don't do anything at all." ...

Hollywood Underground

Column by Judith Sims, TeenSet, September 1967

HOWDY, hip happies! I'm in a good mood, in case you couldn’t guess from that kray-zee salutation! Why am I in a good mood? You ...

Allen Ginsberg: Poet Who Swam in the Ganges — And Started Something

Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 10 September 1967

NEWS THAT the Beatles were flying to India for two months in October, that they were giving up drugs and taking up Indian mysticism may ...

The Byrds: The Byrds Greatest Hits (Columbia)

Review by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, October 1967

SADNESS IS perhaps a word for it, walking down the street with familiar sounds of 'Light My Fire' barely audible from an apartment somewhere high ...

Albums from the Beach Boys, Bobby Vee, Glen Campbell and the Byrds

Review by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 7 October 1967

SMILEY SMILE (Brother Records) The Beach Boys. 'Heroes and Villains', 'Wind Chimes', 'Gettin' Hungry' plus eight other tracks. ...

The Byrds: The Golden Bear, Huntington Beach CA

Live Review by Bill Wasserzieher, Long Beach Press-Telegram, 20 November 1967

TWO YEARS ago the Byrds had Top 40 hits unlike any other pop songs coming out in America. A year ago, despite the defection of ...

Best Records of 1967: The Fifth Dimension, Dion & The Belmonts, The Byrds

Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 6 January 1968

UNLIKE DAVID Griffiths, I have no really clear-cut LP choices of last year. I've narrowed the field down to three records which I've written about ...

The Byrds In Words But The Real Story Is In Your Own Head

Profile by Derek Taylor, Hit Parader, March 1968

THE BYRDS are back in the record charts and on national TV where they began so long ago, so long ago, so long ago; so ...

Rock & Roll Crusader: Detroit

Report by uncredited writer, The Warren-Forest Sun, 1 March 1968

DETROIT IS turning into ROCK CITY before our eyes, and we love it! All over the country groups are being "discovered, " and cities like ...

New Albums From Roy Orbison, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane et al

Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 6 April 1968

Some interesting LP's — a new and an old Orbison, powerful Move, brilliant Byrds, but a let-down from Jefferson Airplane, and an unexpected goodie by ...

Some of the Byrds Fly the Musical Coop

Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 21 April 1968

THE BUFFALO Springfield replaced Bruce Palmer with Jim Messina. Grace Slick joined the Jefferson Airplane when Signe Anderson left. Paul Revere has had 27 Raiders. ...

The Byrds, Penny Nichols: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 27 April 1968

'New' Byrds Make Bow at Troubadour ...

The Byrds: Middle Earth, London

Live Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 18 May 1968

HIGH FLYING BYRDS TRIUMPH WITH A BRITISH AUDIENCE... ...

The Changing Face of the Byrds

Interview by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 25 May 1968

"THE BYRDS have changed. In looks, line-up and partly in repertoire. Gone is the long hair, which, back in 1965, earned them the description of ...

The Byrds, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, The Move, Joe Cocker: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 13 July 1968

Bonzo's brilliance steals the show ...

Country albums from the Byrds, Loretta Lynn, Kitty Wells et al

Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 October 1968

Byrds switch to country music... and it's great ...

20 Revolutionary Singles, as requested

Letter by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, 28 October 1968

25 FLORENCE TERRACE, FALMOUTH, CORNWALL TELEPHONE: FALMOUTH 1840 23rd October 1968 ...

The Newport Pop Festival: Two Days of Surprises, Flowers, Cream Pies... and Super Sounds!

Live Review by Carol Deck, Flip, December 1968

THE ONLY THING really wrong with the Newport Pop Festival held recently in Orange Country, Calif, was that it wasn't in Monterey. ...

The Byrds: Glenn Memorial Church, Atlanta GA

Live Review by Miller Francis jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 7 February 1969

THE BYRDS are, always have been, and (as things look now) will continue to be the most consistently excellent, and under-rated, rock and roll group ...

The Byrds, Albert King: Rose Palace, Pasadena CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1969

Byrds in Spotlight at Pasadena Rose Palace ...

The Byrds, Procol Harum: Fillmore East, New York NY

Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 29 June 1969

PROCOL HARUM, the Britons who fuse rock and classics, played their loud, dramatic music at the Fillmore East this weekend. ...

Burritos and Byrds: A talk with Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman

Interview by uncredited writer, Helix, 4 September 1969

THE FLYING Burrito Brothers, in their own bittersweet honkytonk way, have become the subject of much foolish controversy. Hailed by numerous critics, fans, and even ...

The Byrds: Preflyte (Together Records)

Review by Miles, International Times, 21 November 1969

THEY'RE CUTTING ACROSS BARRIERS WHICH MOST PEOPLE WHO SING ARE NOT EVEN HIP TO. THEY KNOW IT ALL. IF THEY KEEP THEIR MINDS OPEN THEY'LL ...

The Byrds: Thelma's, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 25 November 1969

Byrds of a Different Feather Open at Club ...

Newest Byrds Lineup Debuts at Ash Grove

Live Review by Bill Wasserzieher, Long Beach Press-Telegram, 13 February 1970

WITH THE Jefferson Airplane at Anaheim Stadium and the Doors in the Long Beach Arena, the Byrds had to settle for a small turnout when ...

The Byrds are Amazingly Graceful

Report and Interview by Bud Scoppa, Circus, September 1970

STUDIO B IS down the stark fluorescent-lit hall of the CBS Hollywood arsenal. Past the snack bar with its dozen vending machines, it is beyond ...

Agnew urges curbs on "brainwashing" lyrics

Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 16 September 1970

NEW YORK, Tuesday. — The Vice-President, Mr Spiro Agnew, last night accused some songwriters and motion picture makers of "brainwashing" young Americans with lyrics and ...

The Byrds: Untitled (CBS 66253); Preflyte (Together Records ST-T-1001)

Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 13 November 1970

FEW MUSICIANS have mastered the 16-track recording machine. The abstract discipline it imposes on anyone faced with reducing all its available tracks to two, too ...

The Byrds: (Untitled); MC5: Back in the U.S.A.; Burning Red Ivanhoe

Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 12 December 1970

BESIDES BEING ONE of the seminal rock and roll bands, the Byrds also possess perhaps the music's oldest case-history. Of the group which came out ...

Chris Hillman: The Byrd who found his wings and began to fly

Retrospective and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 6 February 1971

Chris Hillman looks back on the Byrds and talks about his 'Brothers' ...

? — Time with the Byrds

Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 8 May 1971

conducted by Richard Green ...

The Byrds: Byrd Watching (part 1)

Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 8 May 1971

Roger McGuinn: into the mystic ...

The Byrds: Byrd Watching (part 2)

Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 8 May 1971

THE COUNTRY consonants of Clarence White's guitar have fooled a lot of people — me included — into thinking that the man must have come ...

The Byrds: Colston Hall, Bristol

Live Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 8 May 1971

A PINCH of snuff, the eucalyptus stabs the eye. McGuinn fastens the tin and slips it into his suit pocket. The rest of the guy's ...

The Byrds, Rita Coolidge: Fairfield Halls, Croydon

Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 15 May 1971

THE BYRDS are like an institution. They seem to have been around as long as the Houses of Parliament with their own particular style of ...

The Byrds: Byrds From The Egg

Memoir by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, 15 May 1971

They're back! The American group who soared to success her in 1965 with 'Mr. Tambourine Man', then quickly 'disappeared'. Here Disc traces the Byrds' flight ...

The Byrds

Interview by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 19 June 1971

THE BYRDS have flown leaving behind them a few thousand satisfied customers and a liberal sprinkling of Her Majesty's Musical Trade Press impressed with their ...

I Love The Byrds But...

Comment by 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 ...

Reunion Of Old Byrds: A Time For Peace

Report and Interview by Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 4 January 1973

LOS ANGELES — The five original Byrds are together again and not for the last time. They've made their first album together since Turn! Turn! ...

Ex-Byrd Gram Parsons Solos: He's No Longer in a Hurry

Interview by Judith (Judy) Sims, Rolling Stone, 1 March 1973

LOS ANGELES — Back in 1969 Gram Parsons, rhythm guitarist, keyboard player and vocalist, and Chris Ethridge, bassist, decided to form a country rock band ...

The Byrds: The Best of the Byrds (Greatest Hits, Volume II)

Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 12 April 1973

IF YOU WERE asked to put together an anthology album of one of the longest-lived, most productive rock groups ever, and you had the total ...

Parsons the Country Preacher

Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 12 May 1973

This is the man Presley's musicians turn to when they're sick of those Las Vegas riffs. ...

Gram Parsons: Take Your Partners and Away You Go (One Step back Two Steps Forward)

Essay by Phil Hardy, Let It Rock, July 1973

Rock, Country & Gram Parsons ...

Roger McGuinn: A Man's Gotta Do...What A Man's Gotta Do

Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 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 ...

Roger McGuinn and Country Rock: Older Than Yesterday

Retrospective and Interview by Michael Gray, Let It Rock, January 1975

IT'S FRIDAY 30TH AUGUST, in Birmingham England, and it's afternoon. Roger McGuinn is listening to a track off his second solo album, Peace On You. ...

David Crosby

Profile by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 19 April 1975

IT STARTED with trademark objects, really. When The Byrds got their hit with 'Mr Tambourine Man', Jim McGuinn established himself as the one with those ...

Roger McGuinn: Cardiff Rose, Chris Hillman: Slippin' Away, Firefall: Firefall

Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 12 June 1976

WHAT THESE three soft rock American releases have in common is the Byrds. That's the connection plain and simple. Staunch Byrd-man Roger McGuinn returns from ...

Born Again: Roger McGuinn

Interview by Al Aronowitz, The Blacklisted Masterpieces of Al Aronowitz, 1981

Roger McGuinn is explaining that he's found religion. He's now a Christian. Jesus is the only one in sight that he can believe in. He's ...

Rock Fashion: Lace Fop to Costume Ball Chic

Guide by John Mendelssohn, Musician, August 1982

An informal survey of the great movements in rock fashion, those cyclical variations on the theme of outraging mom and dad. ...

Billy James on Columbia, Elektra and the L.A. music industry

Interview by Richie Unterberger, unpublished, 1986

Author’s note: This was based around one of the first significant historical interviews I did. The essay wasn't published anywhere, just typed out for a ...

David Crosby: An Interview

Interview by Johnny Black, unpublished, 22 February 1989

INTERVIEW CONDUCTED in the Halcyon Hotel, Holland Park, London, 22.2.89. Crosby casual in jumper, white shirt and slacks. Seriously overweight and often short of breath, ...

Who the hell does David Crosby think he is?

Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, May 1989

THE AGING MUSICIAN sits in his hotel room, an acoustic guitar propped upon his considerable paunch. He tosses back his long, greying hair, fingers his ...

Gram Parsons: The Father of Country Rock

Retrospective by Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, 1991

GRAM PARSONS wasn't exactly bursting with credentials when he came up for consideration as a member of the Byrds in the early spring of 1968. ...

The Byrds: Box-Set

Review by Mark Cooper, Q, January 1991

PRIOR TO THIS exhaustive four-CD box set with its careful remixing, 17 previously unissued recordings, four new songs by three of the original band and ...

Roger McGuinn: A Byrd Returns To The Nest

Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Happening, April 1991

WHEN IT comes to the legends of rock & roll, there aren't too many singer-songwriters who have had the impact on contemporary rock as Roger ...

Roger McGuinn: The Jingle Jangle Man

Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, April 1991

Nothing defined the sound of The Byrds so much as the 12-string Rickenbacker guitar of their leader Jim McGuinn. As the years went by his ...

What's In A Name?

Essay by John Mendelssohn, Musician, April 1992

Band names have mirrored the aspirations and excesses of the times. A definitive field guide to the epic trends and gonzo greats of rock nomenclature. ...

Catching Up With The Byrds' John York

Interview by Bill Wasserzieher, Full Circle, Summer 1993

A TALENTED musician who played with major American bands in the late 1960s, John York seemed to fall off the edge of the map – ...

Just Like Gene Autry: A Foxtrot

Book Excerpt by Tom Hibbert, 'Love is the Drug' (Penguin), 1994

THE BYRDS FORMED in 1964 when Jim (later Roger) McGuinn, a Dylan-obsessed folkie from San Francisco, saw A Hard Day's Night. He decided there and ...

The Byrds: Mr Tambourine Man, Turn! Turn! Turn!, Fifth Dimension, Younger Than Yesterday

Review by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, June 1996

ROCK HISTORY IS striated by the influence of the Byrds. Theirs is one of the great stylistic lineages, forever shadowing those of the Fabs and ...

The Byrds: The Notorious Byrd Brothers; Sweetheart Of The Rodeo; Dr Byrds & Mr Hyde; Ballad Of Easy Rider

Review by Andy Gill, MOJO, April 1997

The Byrds fall out, run off and get back to the country. The second batch of remastered reissues in the Legacy series. Each features extra ...

Gram Parsons: Another Country

Retrospective by Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian, 12 September 1998

Twenty-five years ago, Gram Parsons died in a remote desert motel, the victim of a prodigious appetite for drugs and alcohol that shocked even Keith ...

Country Rock

Book Excerpt by James Hunter, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1999

COUNTRY ROCK, the incorporation of musical elements and songwriting idioms from traditional country music into late 1960s and '70s rock, usually pursued in Los Angeles. ...

Roger McGuinn Interview

Interview by Stephen K. Peeples, unpublished, 2 April 1999

AUTHOR'S NOTE, Oct. 11, 2014: The following is an expanded version of my Roger McGuinn interview, a shorter version of which was first published at ...

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: The MOJO Interview

Interview by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, November 1999

David is chatting on his earphone, Steve is resting between rounds of golf in Monaco, Graham is boating in Hawaii, and Neil is relaxing down ...

Gram Parsons, Track by Track

Sleeve notes by Bud Scoppa, Sacred Hearts and Fallen Angels (Rhino), September 2000

The International Submarine Band: Safe at Home ...

Byrd Brains: Matthew Sweet and R.E.M.’s Peter Buck Ponder Country-rock’s Finest

Review and Interview by Bud Scoppa, Revolver, Spring 2000

The Byrds:(Untitled/Unissued)ByrdmaniaxFarther AlongLive at the Fillmore West – February 1969 ...

The Byrds: Outlaw Chic

Retrospective by Rob Hughes, Uncut, February 2001

ROB HUGHES SALUTES THE BYRDS' GEM THE NOTORIOUS BYRD BROTHERS ...

Gary Usher

Interview by Gene Sculatti, Scram, 2002

Gary Usher In Conversation With Gene Sculatti January 1971 ...

Roger McGuinn: Twelve-string Driven Thing

Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, September 2002

THE OPENING JINGLE-JANGLE 12-string Rickenbacker guitar line on The Byrds' 1965 classic, 'Mr Tambourine Man', ushered in a new era in popular music – the ...

David Crosby: A Long Strange Trip

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, November 2003

Over the past 40 years David Crosby has done it all, from crafting transcendental, psychedelic harmonies for the Byrds and CSNY to living a life ...

Hello Goodbye: Gene Parsons and the Byrds

Retrospective and Interview by Don Waller, MOJO, March 2004

Hello AUGUST 1968 My passport into the Byrds was [late guitarist ] Clarence White. I'd met him a couple of years earlier at a recording session. ...

Rock Was Dead Before The Beatles!

Retrospective and Interview by Sid Griffin, MOJO, September 2004

And lo, the Beatles begat the Byrds. As said unto Sid Griffin. ...

John Einarson: Mr. Tambourine Man – The Life and Legacy of the Byrds' Gene Clark by John Einarson (Backbeat)

Book Review by Bill Wasserzieher, Ugly Things, Summer 2005

GENE CLARK of the Byrds was many things - a charismatic stage presence in a '60s band that became an American icon; a gifted and ...

Michael Walker: Laurel Canyon

Book Review by Mark Rozzo, Los Angeles Review of Books, 7 May 2006

UP LAUREL CANYON Boulevard at the corner of Lookout Mountain there sits a walled-in postage stamp of lawn and trees. It's a prime slice of ...

The Byrds: There Is A Season

Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, October 2006

They were there at the beginning. Now a 4-CD box set spans 1964-1990 in yet another career overview, Gene-Clark-heavy this time, with five unreleased tracks ...

Gene Clark remembered: "Genius and insanity hand in hand…"

Retrospective by Luke Torn, Uncut, May 2008

IT'S ANOTHER DAY in the busy life of one of the biggest bands in America. The Byrds have just recorded 'Eight Miles High', and are ...

Various Artists: Where The Action Is! – Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 (Rhino)

Review by Jeff Tamarkin, MOJO, October 2009

The latest in the Nuggets franchise documents the most fertile few years in southern Californian music history, taking in curios, weirdos, hipsters, freaks and a ...

Jim Dickson, 1931-2011

Obituary by Rob Hughes, The Guardian, 27 June 2011

Producer and manager behind the Byrds ...

The Wrecking Crew Played On All Your Favourite '60s And '70s Songs (Seriously)

Report and Interview by Juliette Jagger, Huffington Post, 19 February 2015

IN THE '60s and '70s, a should-be-legendary group of studio musicians dubbed the Wrecking Crew played on the era's defining songs. ...

America's Beatles

Retrospective by Harold Bronson, Rock's Backpages, April 2017

THIS YEAR THERE have been more events to celebrate the rock music of the 1960s than in any previous one, and it's still only April. ...

How the Ghost of Gram Parsons haunts Alt-Country

Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, January 2018

GRAM PARSONS didn't care much for the term "country-rock". And he wasn't thrilled by some of the more candy-coated bands who were able to capitalize ...

The Byrds' Sweetheart Of The Rodeo at 50

Retrospective and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, June 2018

MARKING THE 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking Sweetheart of the Rodeo, Byrds co-founders Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman have been performing the album in its ...

Johnny Rogan, 1953-2021

Obituary by Chris Charlesworth, Rock's Backpages, February 2021

MY GOOD FRIEND Johnny Rogan, who died unexpectedly in January aged 67, was among the most prolific and acclaimed music biographers of his generation. Much ...

Happy Birthday This Month from Gary Pig Gold to Both Roger And Jim McGuinn

Comment by Gary Pig Gold, Segarini, July 2022

IT'S BECOMING increasingly obvious, with every passing year and with every passing trend, that the Byrds were just about the greatest rock'n'roll band America ever ...

see also Gene Clark

see also David Crosby

see also Firefall

see also Flying Burrito Brothers

see also Chris Hillman

see also Roger McGuinn

see also McGuinn, Clark & Hillman

see also Souther-Hillman-Furay Band, The

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