Tambourine Man” (with lyrics by Bob Dylan) and “Turn! Turn! Turn!” (with lyrics by God).īut fans didn’t know that, far from his public image, Crosby was an entitled Hollywood rich kid with a moral screw or two loose. With Roger McGuinn, the Byrds’ mainstay bassist Chris Hillman soulful songwriter Gene Clark and drummer Michael Clarke, Crosby and the Byrds created that watershed moment where jangly rock-pop met the seriousness of folk, forever embodied in the timeless passages of “Mr. “They drove up,” Crosby said in a 1971 interview unearthed by Barney Hoskyns for his book Hotel California, “and said that I was terrible and crazy and unsociable and a bad writer and a terrible singer and I made horrible records and that they would do much better without me.”Ĭrosby was already an icon at that point - clad in royal leather fringe at Monterey and one of the three or four flamboyant figures that epitomized the impossibly hip L.A. That was the day the other members of the Byrds came over to kick him out of the band. David Crosby’s career in music should have ended in 1967.
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