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 ...

Chris Dreja, the co-founding rhythm guitarist and later bassist of the Yardbirds, has died, reports The New York Times. On September 25, Dreja died of complications of multiple strokes and chronic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Acclaimed Yardbirds co-founder Chris Dreja has passed away at 79. The versatile musician, photographer, and co-writer's demise was confirmed by former bandmate Jimmy Page and his sister-in-law, who ...

The Nov. 28 show will feature a concert and conversation with vocalist Annie Haslam and songwriter-drummer Jim McCarty, a ...

On November 21, 1995, Peter Grant, the honorary fifth member of Led Zeppelin, died of a heart attack at 60 years old.

“I knew instinctively what the music should be doing,” Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page says, looking back at his original vision for that band. “It’s what I had learned from touring in the Yardbirds ...

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 ...