The Birds - The B Side of Mr Tamboreen Man

The birds were facing problems with their sound being co-opted as the latest hip thing. Their follow up single to Mr Tamboreen Man, released while that song was still going up the chart, was another Dylan song. The group themselves weren't too bothered about their thunder having been stolen by Sonny and Cher but their new publicist was incandescent. Derek Taylor had been a journalist for the Daily Express - which at that time was a respectable enough newspaper. He'd become involved in the music industry after writing an early profile on the Beatles.