Suddenly, it's December 1965 and I'm back at Lake Theater in Painesville (OH) listening and watching The Byrds - Live! on stage playing and singing 'Turn-Turn-Turn'. Wow! Whatta great time we had. Our parents and teachers didn't exactly understand -or- care much for their music, but...
The first long-haired American group to compete with the British Invasion bands visually as well as musically, the Byrds were soon anointed as the American counterpart to the Beatles by the press, legions of fans, and George Harrison himself. Their 1965 debut LP, Mr. Tambourine Man, was a ...
Singer-songwriter-guitarist David Crosby, a founding member of two popular and enormously influential ’60s rock units, the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash (later Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), has died, his representative says. He was 81 years old. A cause of death has not been revealed...
Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a cultural trailblazer and her 1947 Decca Records hit “Above My Head (I Hear Music In The Air)” contains all the elements that made her so popular: inspired gospel singing and rousing guitar playing. Arkansas-born Tharpe is often referred to as “the godmother ...
Paul told him that by the time that Capitol had issued this LP in the summer of 1966, the whole British Invasion had been supplanted by the good vibration sounds of The Beach Boys as well as the new sounds of Dylan, The Byrds, The Lovin Spoonful, and The Mamas And The Papas. The ...
With a sound oscillating between psychedelic pop and space rock, Triptides’ new album Alter Echoes channels both The Byrds at their most hallucinogenic and Floyd at their most cosmically composed… Fire Track: Julien Baker –“Favor” February 4, 2021 Julien Baker has shared another single from...
I was surprised to see him join a rock & roll band, after all those years. He told me he was asked to join the Byrds, at one time. Yeah. Everybody was very surprised to see him join Quicksilver, even though he’s always had that very close friendship with them. He and David Frie...
22/07/1965 MR TAMBOURINE MAN BYRDS 2 05/08/1965 HELP! BEATLES 3 26/08/1965 I GOT YOU BABE SONNY & CHER 2 09/09/1965 (I CAN'T GET NO) SATISFACTION ROLLING STONES 2 23/09/1965 MAKE IT EASY ON YOURSELF WALKER BROTHERS 1 30/09/1965 TEARS KEN DODD 5 04/11/1965 GET OFF OF MY...
'Lay Lady Lay' was originally written for the soundtrack of the movie Midnight Cowboy, but wasn't submitted in time to be included in the finished film. The song has gone on to become a standard and has been covered by numerous bands and artists over the years, including The Byrds, ...
was coming about, the news of Michelle’s affair with Denny had been revealed. But this betrayal wasn’t even the final straw for Michelle’s dismissal from and the eventual decline of the group. That would be her other affair, this time with Gene Clark, the founding member ofThe Byrds....