The Byrds themselves continued to enjoy commercial success with their brand of folk rock throughout 1965, most notably with their # 1 charting single " Turn!

The folk rock sound of The Byrds has continued to influence many bands over the years, including Big Star, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, R. E. M., The Long Ryders, The Smiths, The Bangles, The Stone Roses, Teenage Fanclub, and Delays among others.

As the band continued to tour throughout 1985, their agent decided to shorten their name to " The Byrds " permanently, to the displeasure of McGuinn, Crosby and Hillman.

Clark eventually discontinued performing with his own " Byrds " band, but drummer Michael Clarke then continued on with Skip Battin ( occasionally using ex-Byrds York and Gene Parsons, also ), forming another " Byrds " group, prompting McGuinn, Hillman, and Crosby into going on the road as " The Byrds " to attempt to establish claim to the rights to the band name.

The Byrds continued for a brief period in the same vein, but Parsons left soon after the album was released to be joined by another ex-Byrds member Chris Hillman in forming The Flying Burrito Brothers.

The Byrds continued in the same vein, but Parsons left to be joined by another ex-Byrds member Chris Hillman in forming The Flying Burrito Brothers who helped establish the respectability and parameters of the genre, before Parsons departed to pursue a solo career.

Hillman's prominence continued with the Byrds ' next album, The Notorious Byrd Brothers, on which he shared songwriting credit on seven of the album's eleven songs.

The huge commercial success of The Byrds ' version of " Mr Tambourine Man " spawned scores of imitations, and folk rock continued to expand and diversify over the next few years.

" The question of The Byrds ' continued existence was also echoed in a contemporary review by Bud Scoppa in the March 1972 edition of Rock magazine, in which he opined " The Byrds recognized their failure on Byrdmaniax, but placed the blame on the lavish production job rather than their own disunity.

Following the release of the album, The Byrds continued to tour the U. S. and Europe throughout 1972, but no new LP or single release was forthcoming and ultimately, Farther Along would turn out to be the last studio album by the McGuinn, White, Parsons, and Battin line-up of the band.

Terry Melcher first made a brief attempt to become a surf music singing star, then became a staff producer for Columbia Records in the 1960s, and was famous for producing some latter-day recordings by The Beach Boys and The Byrds.

Perhaps the most successful appearance occurred in Philadelphia, where the group opened for the reconstituted Byrds.

Indeed, the term " raga rock " was coined by The Byrds ' publicist in the press releases for the single and was first used in print by journalist Sally Kempton in her review of " Eight Miles High " for The Village Voice.

Whether this was intended as a drug reference was unclear, but the line would enter rock music when the song was a hit for the Byrds later in the year.

The super-group Crosby, Stills and Nash, formed in 1968 from members of The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and The Hollies, were joined by Neil Young for Deja Vu in 1970, which moved away from many of what had become the " clichés " of psychedelic rock and placed an emphasis on political commentary and vocal harmonies.

Known for their distinctive jangle and chime, Rickenbacker guitars tended to be favoured by Jangle Pop, Power pop and British Invasion-style groups-bands such as The Who, The Byrds and The Beatles.

The band's record label, Columbia Records, had arranged for The Byrds to be allowed to perform at the Ryman on March 15, 1968, a prospect that thrilled Parsons.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

He is best known for being the lead singer and lead guitarist on many of The Byrds ' records.

He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with The Byrds.

On July 11, 2000, McGuinn testified before in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on downloading music from the Internet that artists do not always receive the royalties that ( non-Internet based ) record companies state in contracts, and that to date, The Byrds had not received any royalties for their greatest successes, " Mr. Tambourine Man " and " Turn, Turn, Turn " – they only received advances, which were split five ways and were just " a few thousand dollars " per band member.

He also was a mentor to Roger McGuinn, who worked for Darin at TM Music and played the 12-string guitar in Darin's nightclub band before forming The Byrds.

The final punchline changed to " This is for the birds ( The Byrds )!

* Gene Clark, musician who was a member of the New Christy Minstrels and later a singer-songwriter for The Byrds.

It also brought an invitation from Friedman to Dickie Davis, who had been lighting manager for The Byrds, to become involved in the group's management.

Dylan's material would provide much of the original grist for the folk rock mill, not only in the U. S. but in the UK as well, with many pop and rock acts covering his material in a style reminiscent of The Byrds.

Five days before The Byrds entered Columbia Studios in Hollywood to record his song " Mr. Tambourine Man ", Bob Dylan completed the recording sessions for his fifth album, Bringing It All Back Home.

In this category was Cat Stevens, in London, who began, much like the Byrds in the United States, but toned down the sound more frequently, with acoustic instruments, performing songs that contained concern for the environment, war, and the future of the world in general.

It is believed he designed Moorlands, Byrds Lane, Uttoxeter for one of the Bamfords.

DeShannon also wrote " Don't Doubt Yourself Babe " for the debut album of The Byrds.

The State was produced during a period when MTV had deals with various record labels, via which the network could easily use many songs that had a video aired on the network in their original programming without having to pay royalties to the labels ; The State used popular music as the background music for countless sketches, utilizing hits like The Byrds ' " Turn!

In 2008, McGuire teamed up with former member of The Byrds, John York, for a live tour called " Trippin ' the ' 60s ", which McGuire describes as "... taking the songs and the truth that was in those songs from the 1960s and bringing them into the present moment ... It's not a cover pack, it's us singing songs that we sung with a lot of our friends that aren't around anymore to sing them.

The result of Parsons ' brief tenure in the Byrds was Sweetheart of the Rodeo ( 1968 ), generally considered one of the finest and most influential recordings in the genre.

During this brief period with The Byrds, he appeared with the band on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, miming to the group's current single " Goin ' Back ", as well as to " Mr. Spaceman ".

" Love's ' Forever Changes ,' from 1967, is a lost classic of a period when The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Byrds and other top acts routinely stretched pop / rock's boundaries.

1970's " Untitled " album featured a 16-minute version of The Byrds ' 1966 hit " Eight Miles High ", with all four members taking extended solos representative of their " jam-band " style of playing during that period.

Not all of the songs were strictly new, a few having been written during the 15 Big Ones period, but more specifically " Good Time ", which hailed from the 1970 Sunflower era, and " Ding Dang ", which was co-written with The Byrds ' former leader Roger McGuinn and recorded in late 1973.

Roger McGuinn of The Byrds has repeatedly stated that he listened to Coltrane extensively in this period, and that Coltrane's saxophone playing was a direct influence on his own 12-string guitar playing on The Byrds ' landmark 1965 hit " Eight Miles High ".

Folk rock reached its peak of commercial popularity in the period 1967-8, before many acts moved off in a variety of directions, including Dylan and the Byrds, who began to develop country rock.

The album provides a summary of The Byrds ' history during Gene Clark and David Crosby's tenure with the band and also functions as a survey of the group's hit singles from 1965 to 1967, a period when the band had its greatest amount of success on the singles chart.

In the UK and Europe, this 1991 edition of the album was titled Greatest Hits: 18 Classics Remastered and included an additional seven bonus tracks taken from The Byrds ' post Younger Than Yesterday career ( a period not covered by the original album ).

album, a period already covered by the band's first compilation album, The Byrds ' Greatest Hits.

The compilation comprises 90 tracks and covers the band's career from 1965 to 1971 ( a period when they were signed to Columbia Records ) in roughly chronological order, but excludes material from their 1973 reunion album Byrds, which was released on Asylum Records.

The first 16 tracks on this single disc collection date from The Byrds ' 1965 to 1971 period, while the final 4 tracks are from the 1990 reunion.

Bassist Jim Stallings also contributed to several albums during this period of shifting personnel which included, among others, guitarist Tom Nay of Sarasota, Florida ( who played with the group for about a year ) and John York, who later replaced Chris Hillman in The Byrds.