Fact #61433
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Short story:
The Byrds debut single, a cover of Bob Dylan's Mr Tambourine Man, hits the No1 spot in the USA for the first of two weeks and sparks the folk-rock boom.
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Roger McGuinn (guitar/vocals, The Byrds] : We expected it to be well-received, because it came out well … I was surprised at it being No1 and all that.
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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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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)