Jimmy Page, best known as Led Zeppelin's dark wizard of riffs, broke out in the 1960s as a member of the Yardbirds, which, ...
Jimmy Page could have been a Yardbird before Jeff Beck, had he accepted the somewhat clandestine offers of the band’s ...
Page recalls a surprise visit from Beck — and the special guitar that followed him from the Yardbirds into the early days of Led Zeppelin ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. During their initial years together, The Yardbirds scored several ...
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, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jim McCarty and his fellow bandmates of the Yardbirds will perform at City Winery in Boston on Wednesday, April 9, and then ...
“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 ...
No song heralded the psychedelic era better than the Yardbirds' 1966 hit “Shapes of Things.” Released on Feb. 25, 1966, the song introduced the world to an exciting frontier with new sonic ...
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… ...
Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith, Top Topham, Jim McCarty, and Chris Dreja are the founding members of the Yardbirds. After finding some early success, Topham did not fit the band as a guitarist. “A ...
For English-speaking fans of Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni, Blow-Up (1966) must have felt like a gift from above. For his picture (based on a Julio Cortazar story and set in Swinging London), ...
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 ...