John Byrne, 61, a rock ‘n’ roll musician who wrote and sang “Psychotic Reaction,” the only hit of the San Jose garage band Count Five, died Dec. 15 of kidney and liver failure at the Regional Medical ...

San Jose's Count Five, the archetypal one-shot rock 'n' roll band, had such a short stay in the limelight that Lester Bangs had to invent an entire career for them. In a typically loopy tribute for ...

John Byrne, the lead singer of garage-rock band Count Five and the writer of their 1966 hit “Psychotic Reaction" died on December 15th following kidney and liver failure in San Jose, California. He ...

Count Five proved that a gaggle of teenage high school kids could form a band with absolutely no experience as professional musicians and dish out one of the best songs of their era. “Psychotic ...