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The Very Best of The Byrds is a compilation album by the American rock band The Byrds, released by Columbia Records in 1997. Initially the compilation was only released in Europe and Canada but as of 2006, the album has seen some release in the U.S. [citation needed] The album contains a total of 27 songs, arranged in chronological order, that span the first five years of the band's career ...
The Byrds' Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album by the American rock band the Byrds and was released in August 1967 on Columbia Records. [1] It is the top-selling album in the Byrds' catalogue and reached number 6 on the Billboard Top LPs chart, but failed to chart in the UK. [2] [3] [4]
The Byrds' biographer Johnny Rogan has described "Lady Friend" as "a work of great maturity" and "the loudest, fastest and rockiest Byrds' single to date". [131] Regardless of its artistic merits, the single stalled at a disappointing number 82 on the Billboard chart, despite the band making a number of high-profile television appearances to ...
The Best of The Byrds: Greatest Hits, Volume II was released just prior to the highly publicized reunion of the five original members of the Byrds. [2] The album was compiled with input from the band's guitarist and leader Roger McGuinn, although rock historian Christopher Hjort has suggested that it offered a somewhat erratic survey of the band's later years.
The Very Best of The Byrds: June 2006 — — 82 There Is a Season: September 26, 2006 — — — A Collection: July 9, 2007 — — — Playlist: The Very Best of The Byrds: October 21, 2008 — — — Greatest Hits: March 16, 2009 — — — Eight Miles High: The Best of The Byrds: January 25, 2010 — — — The Complete Album Collection ...
In addition to its appearance on the Younger Than Yesterday album, "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" also appears on several Byrds' compilations, including The Byrds' Greatest Hits; History of The Byrds; The Original Singles: 1965–1967, Volume 1; The Byrds; The Very Best of The Byrds; The Essential Byrds; and There Is a Season. [16]
Anyone who clicked on this article knows that the Byrds are one of the greatest and most influential rock groups of all time: They weren’t only influenced by the Beatles, they influenced them ...
A sixteen-minute live version of "Eight Miles High" was included on the Byrds' album in 1970, [41] and another live version was released as part of the 2008 album, Live at Royal Albert Hall 1971. [42] The song was performed by a reformed lineup of the Byrds featuring Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, and Chris Hillman in January 1989. [40]