Ex-wife of Roger McGuinn of the Byrds shares stories of meeting icons 

"It was a tragic time, but the music pulled us through."

Ianthe is right about the outlook of the 1960s. In and after 1968 all optimism previously generated by the Civil Rights Movement, President Kennedy, and the Summer of Love, was shattered. With the back-to-back assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, having been preceded five years earlier by the assassination of JFK, everything went straight to hell. Woodstock was the closing anthem of the decade. Still, in my opinion, it is the greatest decade in American history. And the music still holds up like a rock!

Wow , What an interesting lady . She was right there . Must have been amazing. God bless her.

When I first saw the link I thought that was Rogers wife and I said wow being a rockstar really does pay off no disrespect to Mrs. McGuinn though

Boy, She must have heard an awful lot of cool things going on. What a great life. Sorry she and Roger didn't stay together.

Mrs McGuinn seems like a very, very nice lady...got to check the book out. Surprised Roger hasn't written a memoir; he's always struck most people who know his work as very articulate and insightful.

Thank you! Ianthe, do you remember the black&white TV show Shindig (where the Brit magazine's name can only have come from)in the early to mid-60's? Where The Action Is and Hullabaloo, same thing. They always had dancing go-go girls frugging jerking twisting ponying mashed potato--ing &c. in cages above the lip-syncing performers, sometimes themed (for instance dancing w/guns for Bobby Fuller doing "I Fought The Law"). Which of these shows were the Byrds on, and did they have those choreographed dancing girls?

I realy like her.much respect

Why didn't she call it "In The Wyngs"?

After i first heard the Byrds and saw Roger with his little square glasses I figured he was just the coolest guy to ever walk in shoe leather. I was only a 16 year old kid then and I knew I just had to have a Rick 12 string which I never did get. I seriously considered writing Roger and asking if I could play Rhythm Guitar for the Byrds. I figured I was as good as Crosby and maybe better. I never did it but I did consider it.

Can't find this book for sale anywhere. I bet this lady was a knockout when she was younger.

I remember in 2010, when asked, Roger McGuinn said that he would never write a book about his life "because if I told the truth, people would sue me!" I wonder if he might change his mind knowing that this book about his early life and career written by his exe exists.

I wonder if she is aware that Roger McGuinn and Harrison Ford were born on the exact same day, July 13, 1942, and both in Chicago.

You know, I offered a link to a video featuring Marty Stuart talking about how he became acquainted with the family of a deceased member of the byrds and would later become curator of "the sound" of the byrds by acquiring the signature guitar which effected that sound. Anyone who hears it and knows the byrds signature sound can identify it immediately. I have seen Marty Stuart live, he plays that guitar at every show of his that I have seen and tells the story behind it. I would include that link for the benefit of every "fan" here, but my comment keeps getting removed. My feeling is however that is happening, I am not getting canceled, Marty Stuart is getting canceled. More than that, by removing that comment twice now, the memory of the byrds past present living and dead is being canceled. So I will not be including that link. Sick part is that it is a RU-vid link.

Harrison Ford was in the Force 10 From Navarone and then seemed to disappear. That's when he earned a living as a carpenter. Star Wars ended that.

Reading a chapter may have been more interesting!!

A time of changes and the music was a Oasis

Why do they ask a young woman to interview a rock legend from an era she is unfamiliar with? McGuinn was coming off a Bobby Darin tour when he formed the Byrds. Look elsewhere for the truth. This only means her settlement was on the cheap side...."a time to ....reminisce, a time to kill."

what a nice lady

Tina - you're a star!

Cousin Dodi

Does she talk about Dylan?

At the end of the day, just starstruck gossip, put it within the context of today, nothing much changes.right?

Wally Cox sold his house to Peter Tork ..and the parties continued!!

compelling interview just over whelming

I will never understand why people keep trying to coerce me into liking the Beatles. They haven't put out even one song that I really like. Even the Byrds have done that a couple times at least.

The interviewer is so 'cringeworthy' ...When McGuinn mentions 'sweetheart of the rodeo' ( a landmark album ) the interviewer has no clue what she's talking about...lol ..I like 'Jim's' ex though..seems like a nice lady.

I have never heard such a poor interviewer...if it wasn't for Ianthes volunteering topics and situations there would be no interview...who is this "wanna be?"

Unfortunately, this is trivial inconsequential tosh.

was this Roger's wife who was seeing David Carradine while still married to Roger??

Tell me. Not.. The story's... You will never understand.

sexy interviewer lol

Interviewer.....ouch, cringe worthy

Does she not know that Marlon Brando and Wally Cox were a couple? They both had their ashes scattered in a desert in CA after their deaths.

Hell this is boring.

If you're not married to him anymore, why bother going on TV telling about so many great memories?

The classier thing you could do is not talk about your marriage to a celebrity.