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“He heard us playing his song electric. You could see the gears grinding in his head. It was like watching a slow-motion lightning bolt”: How The Byrds reinvented a great Bob Dylan song and inspired Dylan to revolutionise his music

It was the first Dylan track to land at No 1 despite him not playing on it

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"Of course it was a drug song. We were stoned when we wrote it!" The story of the psychedelic masterpiece inspired by John Coltrane, Ravi Shankar and a trans-Atlantic aeroplane flight

Eight Miles High was the single that should have launched The Byrds into the stratosphere. So why did it instead mark the precise moment when it all came crashing down?

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"Those teenage kids could be kind of wild. It could be downright frightening at times." The story of the tongue-in-cheek classic that slammed manufactured pop music, aided by a pair of South African legends

A light-hearted pop at the superficial workings of the pop industry in the 60s, it remains a minor classic. And if you saw the band live in Bournemouth in 1965, you might actually be on it!

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"It reminded me of the politics of fear, like we're doing today": How the LA club scene in the 1960s shaped American rock then sparked a revolution

The Doors to a riot: Six months in the life of Sunset Strip

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"It would have been cool if Jimi Hendrix had been the first": Pamela Des Barres on regrets, love and wild times with Jimmy Page, Jim Morrison, Mick Jagger, Keith Moon and more

Beneath Pamela Des Barres' infamous groupie exterior beats a romantic heart

Louder

“The 80s? A lot of hard drugs, cocaine, heroin, people dying. And disco. I mean, how bad can it get?”: the epic life and times of David Crosby

In 2007, Classic Rock challenged the legendary David Crosby to an epic game of word association. Cue tales of women, drugs, prison, liver transplants and ex-bandmates

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Ozric Tentacles announced as headliners for Wokingham Festival

This year's Wokingham Festival takes place from August 24-26 and also features Amanda Lehmann That Joe Payne and more...

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David Crosby: celebrating the life of a quick-witted, acid-tongued raconteur and troublemaker with the voice of an angel

A look back at the life and times of the man who, with The Byrds, CSN, CSN&Y and solo, wrote and recorded a soundtrack to a golden era

Louder

Marty Stuart: “It started with my Clarence White Telecaster. That old guitar is kinda like an invisible band member. It has a tone of its own”

The country legend on channeling the Byrds’ guitar tones, how YouTube helps him cope with the loss of Johnny Cash and finding the amp he’d been searching for all his life

Guitar World

Remembering David Crosby, a giant of American songwriting who gave the ‘60s a voice

As architect of two ‘60s supergroups – and spokesman for the peace and love generation – Crosby will be remembered for his contribution to the counterculture, not the darkness in his life

Guitar World

Caravan to headline at this year's Wokingham Festival

Caravan, Kyros and Azure will appear at this year's Wokingham Festival from August 26-28

Louder

David Crosby obituary

Singer and songwriter whose work with the Byrds, and Crosby, Stills and Nash helped define folk-rock

The Guardian - UK

Richie Furay talks Poco, Buffalo Springfield, leaving the pulpit and his bumpy Hall of Fame induction

SAN DIEGO — Richie Furay has never lived in San Diego, but the 1997 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and co-founder of the pioneering bands Buffalo Springfield and Poco can credit the city for twice playing a key role in revitalizing his career.

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Graham Nash on longevity, 'new' album with David Crosby, and smoking pot at 80: 'It doesn't affect my voice'

Graham Nash was 25 when he wrote his classic 1968 song, "Teach Your Children." He recorded it a year later on the debut album by the then-budding supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash, which teamed him with David Crosby and Stephen Stills.

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‘In all manner of things, we were creative’: the Byrds reflect on music and fashion

As a new book explores the band’s influence on 60s fashion and beyond, its surviving members look back on the trends they pioneered

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m a roads scholar!’ Marty Stuart’s five decades at the country university

Since joining his first band aged 12, Stuart has played with the likes of Johnny Cash and the Byrds and is now building a country music museum. He explains the roots of his lifelong passion

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