Jim Dickson obituary

Producer and manager behind the ByrdsJim Dickson, who has died aged 80, played a significant role in the American folk-rock boom of the 1960s. He was responsible for bringing together the Los Angeles quartet the Byrds, building a buzz about the group in the hippest clubs on the Sunset Strip and masterminding their breakthrough single, Mr Tambourine Man (1965). The bass player Chris Hillman called him "our Brian Epstein", while his bandmate Roger McGuinn described Dickson as "a stern, disciplinar...

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