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… ...

In 1963, Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith, Top Topham, Jim McCarty, and Chris Dreja formed the Yardbirds. After the band was initially formed, Eric Clapton replaced Topham. When Clapton departed from ...

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 ...

65 years ago Eric Clapton quit The Yardbirds, but he was just the first of three guitar legends to pass through the ranks When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Chris Dreja, co-founder of influential English rock band the Yardbirds and co-writer on many of the band’s memorable songs, died at 79. His death was announced by his former bandmate Jimmy Page. “I ...

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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

“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 ...