Hillman and lead guitarist Roger McGuinn poured their cynicism into So You Want To Be A Rock’n’Roll Star. The song served as a two-minute manual for overnight fame, a potted guide to pop stardom with ...

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The Byrds' classic "Turn! Turn! Turn!" didn't sound like anything else on the radio when it hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts in 1965. For starters, the lyrics came from the Book of Ecclesiastes, ...

David Crosby was a crucial voice of both the hippie idealism and the world-weary realism of the classic-rock era. As a founding member of the Byrds and later Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, he helped ...

A girl, listening to the Byrds’ version of “Mr. Tambourine Man,” a girl who loved Bob Dylan, once said, “I don’t like it because it sounds like church music.” Meaning she didn’t like it because she ...

The geekiest fan would be hard-pressed to match Marty Stuart’s vast memorabilia collection, which will be displayed as part of his ambitious country music complex being built in his hometown of ...

In many ways, singer-songwriter David Crosby, a cofounder of two iconic bands, the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash, seemed to know he was living on borrowed time in recent years. Crosby, who died ...

The Byrds were a massively influential group whose legacy has faded somewhat over the years, at least in part due to a steady ...