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) ...

The other band members included Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja, Paul Samwell-Smith, and Keith Relf. Relf, who was the lead vocalist ...

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Yardbirds co-founder Chris Dreja has died at 79, according to his family. The British musician’s death was first announced on social media by his sister-in-law, Muriel Levy. She said on Wednesday that ...

The Yardbirds' storied history often overshadows the great music the band made during their five-year run. Our list of the Top 10 Yardbirds Songs emphasizes the music, not the history, but all three ...

“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 ...

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 latest incarnation is great enough with its stellar line-up of musicians. Adding original drummer Jim McCarty’s musings of days gone by takes it to another level. ByJim Clash, ...

Chris Dreja, the legendary bass player from the seminal British Invasion group the Yardbirds, has died. News of Dreja’s death was announced on Oct. 2, Guitar Player reported. Dreja was 79. Dreja was 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), ...