The Byrds
The Byrds wanted to be America’s answer to The Beatles. And, for a minute in 1965, the Los Angeles band came close, with hit singles that institutionalized their newly minted “folk-rock” as part of the musical landscape. They failed to match their British counterparts’ commercial supremacy, but they attained a cultural ubiquity of their own, blazing trails in psychedelia and then in country-rock that would be followed by thousands of succeeding groups. Few bands of the era have exerted as powerful an influence on rock history.
As Rolling Stone’s David... Read More
- Genre:
- Rock
- City Of Origin:
- Los Angeles, ,California United States
- Formed Date:
- 1965
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