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Roger McGuinn: Twelve-string Driven Thing

Johnny Black, MOJO, September 2002

THE OPENING JINGLE-JANGLE 12-string Rickenbacker guitar line on The Byrds' 1965 classic, 'Mr Tambourine Man', ushered in a new era in popular music – the folk rock boom that spawned The Mamas And The Papas, Simon And Garfunkel, Fairport Convention and too many more to mention.

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