The Byrds
The Byrds were an American folk/country rock group founded in Los Angeles, California in 1964 by Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, and David Crosby. Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke joined soon thereafter. The band's manager was Jim Dickson. They began as players of acoustic rock, but moved onto electric guitars, pioneering a twangy style of guitar music known as "jangle rock", which influenced many other artists, from The Beatles to Tom Petty, R.E.M, and Robyn Hitchcock. They also experimented with the Moog synthesizer before moving into country music following a membership change. The group's fame peaked in 1965-67, when they had three major hit songs: a Dylan cover ("Mr. Tambourine Man"), "Turn! Turn! Turn!" (a Pete Seeger song based on the book of Ecclesiastes which ended with a plea for peace), and "Eight Miles High"Gene Clark left in March 1966, David Crosby and Michael Clarke in 1967, and Chris Hillman in 1968. New members were Gram Parsons, Kevin Kelley, Clarence White and Skip Battin. Clark, Clarke, Crosby, and Hillman all briefly rejoined in late 1972 for the reunion album Byrds before the group was "officially" dissolved by McGuinn, who owned the name, in February 1973.
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