How Keith Richards inadvertently ruined The Byrds’ 1968 album: “That was the end”

How Keith Richards inadvertently ruined The Byrds’ 1968 album: “That was the end”Keith Richards has lent his anarchic blues-rock stylings to a litany of rock’s most iconic records, and back in the 1960s, he established himself among the most iconic faces of a new generation of rock rebellion. Ultimately, though, the love affair between Parsons and The Byrds was cut depressingly short, and Keith Richards had a bizarre part to play in that division. He went on to recall, “Then we went to Europe and he started hanging out with Keith Richards and he left The Byrds, and that was the end of that.” Still, even with the re-dubbed vocals that appeared on the final product, that 1968 record is arguably The Byrds’ greatest, and certainly their most creatively satisfying. There is no telling where the band would have gone, had Keith Richards not led Parsons away from the group.