As founding member Chris Dreja tells it, making a new Yardbirds album after 35 years seemed daunting: “That’s a long holiday. We’ve been dormant like some bacteria for all that time. Waiting to ...

Although not as deeply influential or as famous as The Beatles or The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds helped forge rock and roll into what it is today. This English outfit had some big hits like "For ...

The first time was in 1964, when Yardbirds manager Giorgio Gomelsky had asked Page to temporarily replace guitarist Eric Clapton because he was going on holiday. Page, who was friends with Clapton, ...

ORIGINAL LINEUP: Keith Relf - vocals, Chris Dreja - rhythm guitar, Paul Samwell-Smith - bass, Jim McCarty - drums, Anthony 'Top' Topham - lead guitar (replaced shortly thereafter by Eric Clapton) ...

With hits like For Your Love, Shapes Of Things and Heart Full Of Soul, The Yardbirds were one of the most influential of the early 1960s blues-rock bands. They also enjoyed the distinction of having ...

“It’s a shame the Yardbirds have no image,” opined Herman’s Hermits’ Peter Noone bluntly in 1966, “because they would be the Number One group in England.” It’s true that the Yardbirds—whose ...

At the very same time, out in the world-at-large, the times they were a-changin’, as the song lyrics sort of go. Between war, devastating assassinations, increasingly violent protests, political ...

When you look back to the formation of Led Zeppelin, you have to start with The Yardbirds. After all, that where Jimmy Page developed “Dazed and Confused” and the other ideas Page described as “a ...

These days, many know The Yardbirds as much for the incredible lead guitarists that passed through their lineup as much as for their music. But make no mistake, the band released some incendiary stuff ...

Whammy bars across the globe are at half-staff this week with word of the passing of legendary guitarist Jeff Beck. A crucial player of the second wave of the British Invasion, Beck died Tuesday after ...

As advice to anyone building a collection of live recordings, one could scarcely go wrong with the acknowledged classics--sets by Otis Redding, the Who, the Stones' Get YerYa-Ya's Out! Combined with a ...