“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 ...

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) ...

Their first album, Five Live Yardbirds, established the band as one of the leaders on the London blues scene when it was released the previous December with Clapton. He had even, by this time, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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… ...

Along with the Brit-invaded rock of The Animals and The Rolling Stones, by the early 1960s, The Yardbirds pulled their sound from the likes of Bo Diddley and Howlin’ Wolf and other American blues and ...

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this interview series with Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty, we covered a lot of ground including the group's guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page; why the group ...

It was a long journey from the earliest version of “Dazed and Confused” to the marathon — at times, over 30-minute — performances Led Zeppelin would deliver in the band’s prime. And it all started ...