Editing The Byrds (section)

==Legacy==
Since the band's 1960s heyday, the influence of the Byrds on successive generations of [[Rock music|rock]] and [[Pop music|pop]] musicians has grown steadily, with acts such as the [[Eagles (band)|Eagles]], [[Big Star]], [[Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers]], [[R.E.M.]], [[the Bangles]], [[the Smiths]], and innumerable [[alternative rock]] bands of the post-[[Punk rock|punk]] era all exhibiting signs of their influence.<ref name="allmusic"/><ref name="smith"/><ref name="hjort29"/><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Hoard|first=Joel|title=The Byrds Biography|magazine=Rolling Stone|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-byrds/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511020604/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-byrds/biography|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 11, 2011|access-date=April 25, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Rogan, Johnny.|page=417|year=1998|title=The Byrds: Timeless Flight Revisited|edition=2nd|publisher=Rogan House|isbn=0-9529540-1-X}}</ref> Musician and author Peter Lavezzoli described the Byrds in 2007 as "one of the few bands to exert a decisive influence on the Beatles", while also noting that they helped to persuade Bob Dylan to begin recording with [[electric instrument]]ation.<ref name="lavezzoli2">{{cite book |last=Lavezzoli |first=Peter |page=162 |year=2007 |title=The Dawn of Indian music in the West |publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-8264-2819-6}}</ref> Lavezzoli concluded that "like it or not, terms like 'folk rock', 'raga rock' and 'country rock' were coined for a reason: the Byrds did it first, and then kept moving, never staying in the 'raga' or 'country' mode for very long. This is precisely what made the Byrds such a rewarding band to follow from one record to the next".<ref name="lavezzoli2"/>

In their book ''Beyond and Before: Progressive Rock Since the 1960s'', academics Paul Hegarty and Martin Halliwell placed the Byrds among a list of bands that they included in the book "not merely as [[proto-prog|precursors]] of [[progressive rock|prog]] but as essential developments of progressiveness in its early days".<ref name=Hegarty>{{citation|last1=Hegarty|first1=Paul|last2=Halliwell|first2=Martin|title=Beyond and Before: Progressive Rock Since the 1960s|year=2011|publisher=The Continuum International Publishing Group|location=New York|isbn=978-0-8264-2332-0|author-link1=Paul Hegarty (musician)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=taA2AqdCAJ0C |page=11}}</ref> In ''The Great Rock Discography'', music researcher [[Martin C. Strong]] describes the Byrds' cover of "Mr. Tambourine Man" as "a timeless slice of hypnotic, bittersweet pop" and a record that "did nothing less than change the course of pop/rock history".<ref>{{cite book|last=Strong|first=Martin C|author-link=Martin C. Strong|title=The Great Rock Discography|year=2004|publisher=[[Canongate Books]]|edition=7th|location=Edinburgh|isbn=1841955515|page=226}}</ref> Author and musician [[Bob Stanley (musician)|Bob Stanley]], writing in his 2013 book ''Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop'', has called the Byrds' music "a phenomenon, a drone, genuinely hair-raising and totally American".<ref>{{cite book|last=Stanley|first=Bob|author-link=Bob Stanley (musician)|title=Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop|year=2013|publisher=[[Faber and Faber]]|location=London|isbn=978-0-571-28197-8|page=177}}</ref>

Music historian [[Domenic Priore]] attempted to sum up the band's influence in his book ''Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock 'n' Roll's Last Stand in 60s Hollywood'', by stating: "Few of The Byrds' contemporaries can claim to have made such a subversive impact on popular culture. The band had a much larger, more positive impact on the world at large than any ''Billboard'' chart position or album sales or concert attendance figure could possibly measure."<ref>{{cite book |author=Priore, Domenic |page=85 |year=2007 |title=Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock 'n' Roll's Last Stand in 60s Hollywood |publisher=Jawbone Press |isbn=978-1-906002-04-6}}</ref>

In 2004, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine ranked the Byrds at number 45 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Petty|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Petty|title=100 Greatest Artists of All Time - No.&nbsp;45: The Byrds|magazine=Rolling Stone|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-artists-of-all-time-19691231/the-byrds-20110420|access-date=April 26, 2011|archive-date=October 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019204345/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-artists-of-all-time-19691231/the-byrds-20110420|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2006, they were inducted into the [[Vocal Group Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Byrds - Music Inductees|url=http://vocalgroup.org/inductees/the-byrds/|access-date=2022-01-14|website=The Vocal Group Hall of Fame|language=en-US|archive-date=January 14, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220114002045/http://vocalgroup.org/inductees/the-byrds/|url-status=live}}</ref>