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The Byrds

1964 to 1973 · on Folk rock

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Active years

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The journey

1960196519701975Folk rock1965
  1. 1965Folk rock · Mr. Tambourine Man

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Platform

  1. Folk rock1965 to 1967

    Mr. Tambourine Man

    Their electric twelve-string arrangement of Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" (1965) is where folk rock opens. The station sits on the line's launch, which is exactly where the history puts it.

    Key album: Mr. Tambourine Man, 1965

    Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Byrds (opens in a new tab)

Line-ups

The Byrds has a line-up of its own: The Byrds, 1964 to 1973, every member and spell as a line diagram.

Connections

Influenced byThe Beatles

The line

Folk rock (Rock family)

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Byrds (opens in a new tab)
  2. Holly George-Warren and Patricia Romanowski (editors), The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Fireside, 2001

Cite this page

The Metro Map of Music, ‘The Byrds: station’, /stations/the-byrds.