Drummer Michael Clarke also left the band during the recording sessions, and much of the drumming on the album is from studio players Jim Gordon and Hal Blaine. The breaking point was ‘Triad’, about a ménage à trois, a song that the other members considered too risque. Ace songwriter Gene Clark had already left the band, and David Crosby was fired in October 1967, during the sessions for The Notorious Byrd Brothers. With three talented singer-guitarists competing for attention in their original lineup, band relationships were competitive and strained. The song launched the genre of folk-rock, influencing The Beatles’ 1965 album Rubber Soul, as well as later acts like Tom Petty and R.E.M.īy the time of their fifth album, 1968’s The Notorious Byrd Brothers, The Byrds were in turmoil. The song was a watershed moment in pop music – combining Dylan’s poetic, creative lyrics with Roger McGuinn’s chiming twelve string electric guitar. Californian folk-rock band The Byrds enjoyed immediate success in 1965 with their first single, a cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘Mr Tambourine Man’.
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