American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Founding member of sixties folk/rock band The Byrds.
Elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of The Byrds ) in 1991.
Father of independent filmmaker Patrick McGuinn.
The Byrds were voted the 45th Greatest Artists in Rock n Roll by Rolling Stone.
Ranked as the 95th greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone Magazine.
His influences were Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, The Everly Brothers, and Gene Vincent.
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there. .
