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Gene Clark

As chief songwriter of The Byrds, Gene Clark helped craft the jangly, dreamy, West Coast folk rock sound of the 1960s, but endured a tumultuous solo career troubled by addiction, health and mental problems and died aged only 46 in 1991. Growing up in Kansas City, Missouri, Clark started learning the guitar at the age of nine from his bluegrass-playing father and, inspired by the likes of Elvis Presley and Hank Williams, began performing with high school band Rum Runners in his teens. With the gentle, clean-cut folk music of The Kingston Trio and The Weavers the popular trend o...