John Lennon said The Yardbirds “never really had a singer, you know, or a performer.” A member of The Yardbirds inspired a song George Harrison wrote for The White Album. That member of The Yardbirds ...
On March 13, 1965, Eric Clapton made one of the most famous decisions in classic rock history: to leave The Yardbirds. He felt the group was leaving their blues roots behind. Clapton didn’t want to be ...
The Yardbirds -- featuring original members Jim McCarty (drums) and Chris Dreja (bass) recently completed a new album, "Birdland," featuring an extraordinary cast of guest guitarists. That Brian May… ...
More than anything else, influential classic English rock band The Yardbirds was known for its high-profile membership – especially its guitarists, who in the band’s first five years 1963-68 included ...
Imagine replacing Eric Clapton on guitar by bringing in Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page in the same band together! That’s the story of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band The Yardbirds, who bring psychedelic ...
Nearly 60 years after forming a legendary rock band, with some so-famous alum, the original drummer is kicking off a new tour with the Yardbirds, and starting right here on Cape Cod. See Jim McCarty's ...
Chris Dreja, co-founder of the Yardbirds, has passed away. The musician was 79. Both his sister-in-law Muriel Levy and former bandmate Jimmy Page confirmed the news on social media. A cause of death ...
In many respects, according to Yardbirds founding member and drummer Jim McCarty, the guys playing in front of him can more than hold their own with the original band, whose members once included ...
On November 21, 1995, Peter Grant, the honorary fifth member of Led Zeppelin, died of a heart attack at 60 years old.
Guitar legends Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page are the three most famous alumni of The Yardbirds, the pioneering English blues-rock band that was formed in 1963, gave birth to Led Zeppelin in ...
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 ...
Don’t be too quick to sell the 1960s British rock band The Yardbirds short just because the latest iteration of the group consists of only one original member from 1963 and four American musicians, ...
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