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...Among the long line of notables in David Crosby’s family tree was an ancestor who signed the American Declaration of Independence....
...Although it’s a clinic, we see no evidence of any staff, and time lurches forward in odd jumps, signalled by shifts in lighting (Isabella Byrd) behind the latticed wall on the biscuit-brown set (from the...
...Although he liked some popular music at the time — The Beatles, The Byrds, a bit of Bob Dylan — he admits it did not mean much to him....
...“Initially it was great — we were everywhere,” says David Callahan, singer of The Wolfhounds (“Feeling So Strange Again”)....
...One of those leavers is Elysia Byrd, who is painting the walls of her new home when she answers the phone....
...Meanwhile, David Crosby talks about his anger at the rest of The Byrds rejecting a song he had penned about a ménage à trois called “Triad”....
...Thanks to their huge record collection, he spent his childhood in Iceland growing to love music from Gibbons and Byrd to Thomas Adès and John Adams....
...Crosby had been turfed out of The Byrds; Stills was previously in Buffalo Springfield; and Nash was a member of British band The Hollies....
...His hero, though, was a pianist: Roy Byrd, better known as Professor Longhair. And in 1959, Rebennack played on Longhair’s single “Go to the Mardi Gras”, recorded at Matassa’s place....
...There are snatches of lullaby sung to daughter Rosie (who gurgles in appreciation); there are old folk songs and a canon by William Byrd....
...And it was riveting,” said Ray Smock, director of the Robert C Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education....
...The Byrds, meanwhile, also signed to Columbia, were encouraged to cover “Mr Tambourine Man” as their debut single....
...Religion only became important if they got close to royalty — as Tallis, along with Robert Fayrfax and William Byrd, did.”...
...“It doesn’t really seem like an appropriate move,” Daniel Byrd, the senior union representative among the employees, said....
...It’s taken David Crosby 21 years to release a follow-up to his last solo album: the former Byrds man still sets his clock by hippy time....
...“NRG Yield has robust growth prospects and strong management,” analyst Stephen Byrd said....
...It is winningly interpreted here by soprano Rosalind Rees and David Starobin....
...Canterbury in the south to Leeds in the north, from St David’s in Wales to Orkney in Scotland....
...Dalton was a draw for the likes of Hardin, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and a pre-Byrds David Crosby. She played few formal gigs. “We did do a really good concert at the university in Indiana,” says Tucker....
...Wary of both global grandstanding and association with failure, David Cameron chose not to be represented at all....
...Masekela played trumpet with The Byrds and won a Grammy nomination for “Grazin’ In The Grass”; Makeba landed a Grammy for an album with Harry Belafonte....
...First up was Roger McGuinn, best-known for pioneering folk-rock with The Byrds, but a coffee house regular as a teenager in the late 1950s....
...He also opposed the later successful nominations of David Souter, who ironically was to become one of the more liberal justices, and Clarence Thomas, the African American rightwinger....
...If Tallis and Byrd are the Shakespeare and Jonson of Tudor church music, Robert Parsons and Robert White might each be Christopher Marlowe, cut down in promising youth....
...“Senator Byrd is far and above the number one porker that we have ever tracked, and he’s unrepentant in his porking,” said David Williams of Citizens Against Government Waste, a Washington watchdog group...
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