Chris Hillman’s musical life from Byrds to Burritos and more
LOS ANGELES — Tom Petty once described him as one of rock music’s most well-kept secrets, and Chris Hillman is fine with that.
Fifty-one years after he picked up his first guitar, Hillman says music was never about becoming rich and famous, something he mocked in the whimsical 1967 hit “So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star” that he co-wrote with fellow bandmate Roger McGuinn for the Byrds.