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The Byrds release their debut album, Mr Tambourine Man, in the USA on Columbia Records. The album includes four songs by Bob Dylan - Mr Tambourine Man, Spanish Harlem Incident, All I Really Want To Do and Chimes Of Freedom.Full article:
Bob Dylan : They (The Byrds, The Turtles, Cher etc) made some of my songs top-10 hits. But I wasn’t a pop songwriter. I never even wanted to be that. But it was good that it happened. Their versions of songs were like commercials. I didn’t really mind that. Because fifty years later my songs would be used for commercials. So that was good, too. I was glad it happened
(Source : speech at Musicares Person Of The Year event, Feb 2015)
Tom Petty : You’d go and see some other kid whose hair was long, this was around 65, and go, ‘Wow, there’s one like me,’ “ he said in 1989. “You’d go over and talk and he’d say, ‘I’ve got a drum set.’ ‘You do? Great!’ That was my whole life.
(Source : interview in 1989)
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(Source : speech at Musicares Person Of The Year event, Feb 2015)
Tom Petty : You’d go and see some other kid whose hair was long, this was around 65, and go, ‘Wow, there’s one like me,’ “ he said in 1989. “You’d go over and talk and he’d say, ‘I’ve got a drum set.’ ‘You do? Great!’ That was my whole life.
(Source : interview in 1989)