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It was a simple idea: take the folk song structure, wed it to a Beatle beat and count it off. That was the concept Jim (later Roger) McGuinn and Gene Clark were pursuing in clubs on the Sunset Strip when they met David Crosby. Together, these three young veterans of the folk scene recruited Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke to form one of the most influential rock bands of the Twentieth Century.
