Albums by The Byrds
ALBUMThe ByrdsThe Byrds
ALBUMByrdsThe Byrds
ALBUMFarther AlongThe Byrds
ALBUMByrdmaniaxThe Byrds
ALBUM(Untitled)/(Unissued) [Reissue Edition with Bonus Tracks]The Byrds
ALBUMBallad of Easy RiderThe Byrds
ALBUMDr. Byrds & Mr. HydeThe Byrds
ALBUMSweetheart of the Rodeo (Reissue Edition with Bonus Tracks)The Byrds
ALBUMThe Notorious Byrd Brothers (Reissue Edition with Bonus Tracks)The Byrds
ALBUMYounger Than Yesterday (Reissue Edition with Bonus Tracks)The Byrds
The Byrds's Popular Music Videos
Mr. Tambourine Man (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, December 12, 1965)
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Turn! Turn! Turn! (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, December 12, 1965)
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This Wheel's On Fire (Audio/Version 1)
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Kathleen's Song (Audio/Alt. Version)
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Mind Gardens (Audio/Alt. Version)
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Artist Playlists
The Byrds Essentials
Meet the founding fathers of folk-rock and country-rock.
The Byrds: Psychedelic
You'll find it's stranger than known.
The Byrds: Folk
Jangly hits that turned on a generation.
The Byrds: Deep Cuts
Showcasing their serious songwriting chops.
Inspired by The Byrds
Building on the band's jangling guitars and soaring harmonies.
Artist Biography
Folk rock, psychedelic rock, country rock—The Byrds helped pioneer them all in the ’60s and forever changed the face of popular music.
∙ Emerging from the L.A. folk scene, the group formed as The Jet Set in 1964, later changing their name to The Byrds as a tribute to the misspelled moniker of The Beatles.
∙ They twice hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1965—first with their debut, a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man,” and then with “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season).”
∙ The 1966 single “Eight Miles High” ushered in the band’s psychedelic era, best exemplified by that year’s LP Fifth Dimension and 1967’s Younger Than Yesterday.
∙ South African jazz artist Hugh Masekela played trumpet on their 1967 single “So You Want to Be a Rock ’n’ Roll Star,” which went on to be covered years later by Patti Smith and Tom Petty.
∙ Gram Parsons was drafted into the band in 1968 and featured heavily on that year’s Sweetheart of the Rodeo, one of the very first country-rock albums.
∙ Following numerous personnel changes, the group’s original lineup reunited in 1972 to record one final, self-titled LP, which surfaced the following year as the members went their separate ways.
∙ The Byrds were inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, and the band was later included on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
Hometown
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Genre
Rock