The Byrds' founder talked to us about the origins of folk-rock, the allure of 12-string Rickenbackers and his eternal love of ...

One of the most famous classic rock songs of the 1960s is The Byrds’ “Turn! Turn! Turn!” A star who was not a member of The Byrds read a passage from the Bible and subsequently wrote the song. The ...

The Byrds were famously one of the first rock 'n' roll band to be signed to Columbia Records – no mean feat considering the label's longstanding love affair with jazz and classical Broadway show tunes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mr. Tambourine Man by The Byrds is one of very few cover versions to have arrived less than a month after the original. The song ...

When the Byrds kicked off the second phase of their multistage career in March 1966 with the release of "Eight Miles High," they also happened to launch a new chapter in rock history. The quintet ...

The Byrds stamped themselves as one of the most iconic American rock bands of the 60s. And, for a while, their recorded excellence was also rewarded with success on the pop charts. That included a ...

Roger McGuinn was adamant that 'Mr Spaceman' wasn't about tripping. The Byrds frontman had a far stranger plan instead, for ...

Tom Petty might have been at the forefront of a new musical landscape in the 1970s and 1980s, but he got a little of his ...

The Monkees‘ songs sound very different from The Byrds’ songs. Despite this, one of the Prefab Four’s tracks was a cover of a song by The Byrds. Notably, the track was co-written by Carole King.

On this day (June 26) in 1965, the Byrds were at No. 1 on the Hot 100 with “Mr. Tambourine Man.” Written by Bob Dylan and released just a month after his original cut was released on Bringing It All ...

In its size, weight and length, The Byrds 1964-1967 is the prototypical coffee table item/gift book. But even as the comparatively narrow time frame it covers would seem to belie the heft of nearly ...