Commercially, the Byrds weren't exactly at the top of their game in 1968. Their fifth album, The Notorious Byrd Brothers, released in January, topped out at No. 47. Its only single, "Goin' Back ...

When the Byrds resumed work on the song "Goin' Back" a couple of months later (with Jim Gordon filling in on drums), Crosby decided that the recording of a sentimental composition about the ...

Listen to the Byrds Perform 'Change is Now' The band's take on Carole King and Gerry Goffin's "Goin' Back" is perhaps the definitive version of the song. Elsewhere, "Natural Harmony" and "Draft ...

Oh, oh, are we going to fly down in the easy chair ... (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "MY BACK PAGES") THE BYRDS AND THE FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES: (Singing) Crimson flames tied through my ears, rolling high ...

The Byrds are on the shortlist of great American ... No, David was angry that we didn’t use his song as opposed to “Goin’ Back” or the other Goffin and King song, “Wasn’t Born To ...

“You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere ... The concert opened with the Dylan-penned Byrds staple “My Back Pages” and Hillman’s vocal on the country-influenced, pre-“Sweetheart” song ...

The Byrds were one of the defining bands of the 1960s. Their legacy may not have translated the same way the the legacies of ...