(Their live recording of "Devil in Disguise" was a Peel favourite of the early 1970s, and later he claimed that their album The Gilded Palace Of Sin was one of the great LPs of all time.) The evolution of the Byrds has been extensively documented in several full-length books, as well as by Pete Frame, who not only drew up some of his earliest Rock Family Trees to illustrate the group's history but wrote a series of lengthy articles on them in his magazine Zigzag. David Crosby joined Stephen Stills and Graham Nash in Crosby, Stills & Nash, while Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman continued the country-rock fusion with their band The Flying Burrito Brothers. An attempted revival of the original band in 1973 was unsuccessful, but its individual members went on to form numerous spin-off groups. A feature of their career was internal fractiousness and frequent changes of personnel, which led to McGuinn finally breaking up the group in the early 1970s. Most of their memorable work was recorded between 19, by which time all of the original members of the band, apart from founder Roger McGuinn, had left.
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For this reason their influence continued into the 1980s and beyond, the post-punk generations finding their work free of the excesses of many of their West Coast hippy-era successors. Instead, they became one of pop music's major cult bands, pioneering new styles - folk-rock, psychedelia, country-rock - within the framework of tightly-produced records which rarely exceeded the three-minute limit of the standard pop single. They were promoted as America's equivalent to the Beatles, but lacked the unity and the outgoing, media-friendly qualities required to inhabit this role. After some initial recordings under the name of the Beefeaters, they signed to Columbia Records and achieved a number one single in the US with their version of Bob Dylan's "Mr. The Byrds were formed in Los Angeles in 1965 by musicians whose background was in folk ( Jim McGuinn, David Crosby) and country ( Gene Clark, Chris Hillman) music, in response to the success of The Beatles in the United States. Played on 14 August 1967 (the final Perfumed Garden). And when you spoke to them, it was as if you weren't there." īyrds - Eight Miles High (RARE 1967 clip)Įight Miles High.
The most obnoxious people I've ever met in my life.They wouldn't speak. " One time I hosted a concert with The Byrds, who were complete - and I don't use the word lightly, but please put it down – cunts.
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