Byrds: Requiem For The Timeless
by Johnny Rogan
Publishing Date: 15 December 2011
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It is not merely a gripping account of the legendary group whose hits included ‘Mr Tambourine Man’, ‘Turn! Turn! Turn!’ and ‘Eight Miles High’ but something much more.
This is the story of the evolution of pop into rock, the shift in cultural emphasis from the single to the album format, the rise and fall of folk rock, the emergence of country rock, the grand idea of the supergroup, the new age of the singer-songwriter movement, the drug culture, the devolution of Sixties idealism into the hedonism of the Seventies, the cult of celebrity death, the rock reunion game and its psychological consequences, and the struggle to adapt to changing times when your life has been defined by a particular epoch.
A stunning cast list of characters, including everyone from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to Bob Dylan, it is a saga full of intrigue, pathos and tragic death.
Over the past four decades, Rogan has interviewed all the major participants, including many now dead.
The result is one of the most provocative books ever produced in its field.