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As the frontman from the Byrds, Roger McGuinn and his trademark 12-string Rickenbacker guitar pioneered folk-rock and, by extension, country-rock, influencing everyone from contemporaries just like the Beatles to acolytes like Tom Petty and R.E.M. along the way. Wayne Joseph McGuinn was created on July 13, 1942, in Chicago, whereby …

McGuinn, Clark & Hillman (afterwards McGuinn-Hillman) came into being in 1977, when 3 former associates of the initial Byrds — Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, and Chris Hillman — made a decision to try and revise their audio in a fresh framework. The impetus for the reunion had taken shape in …

Gene Clark will be best remembered for his two-year stint like a vocalist using the Byrds between 1964 and 1966. An excellent legacy to be certain, but the pity of it really is that there is a lot more to Clark’s body of function than that; he was an excellent …

Along with regular collaborator Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman was the main element figure in the introduction of country-rock, virtually defining the genre through his seminal use the Byrds as well as the Traveling Burrito Brothers. Hillman was created on Dec 4, 1944, in LA, where he was raised hearing Spade …