When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Morgan Elliott The Byrds were a massively influential group whose legacy has faded ...

Skip Battin is underrated in classic rock history, and I think his contributions via the likes of The Byrds deserve some love ...

Last October, BBC Music Magazine ranked the top 21 greatest country rock albums of all time. Beating out both Neil Young's ...

The folk-rock icon said the Beatles were jealous of the Byrds’ clothes. “They asked, ‘How’d you get to wear jeans? We had to ...

When it was time for the Byrds to release their debut single on Columbia Records, the band knew they would have to make a big first impression—so, thank goodness David Crosby was involved in 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 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.

In late December, Tom Petty‘s Twitter account resurfaced a 1985 live clip of Petty and his band the Heartbreakers running through their take on The Byrds’ “So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star.” The ...

The Byrds covered multiple Bob Dylan songs as a band. In some instances, their covers of his songs became more popular than Dylan’s versions. For the most part, Dylan didn’t mind. The Byrds’ take on ...

This article originally appeared in Issue 5 of Crawdaddy in Sept. 1966. The Byrds have been personal favorites of mine since “Mr. Tambourine Man.” Their sonorous and overpowering (though technically ...

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 ...