A long-lost album by a short-lived supergroup that featured the lead singer of arguably one of the most influential British blues-rock bands of the 1960s is being reissued as a limited-edition colored ...

The Yardbirds, an English rock band formed in 1963, kickstarted the music careers of three legends—Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page. All three men ranked toward the top of Rolling Stone’s list ...

Both tracks feature on the illuminating All the Falling Angels: Solo Recordings & Collaborations 1965–1976, a new, first-ever 24-track collection dedicated to what Yardbirds’ frontman Keith Relf was ...

We can thank them for being the grandfathers of prog rock, psychedelic rock, and even for influencing punk.

The Yardbirds launched the careers of guitar gods Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck before Page joined them as the bassist. (Beck gifted Page a guitar for turning down the Yardbirds and recommending him for ...

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 ...

Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith, Top Topham, Jim McCarty, and Chris Dreja are the original members of the Yardbirds. Relf and Samwell-Smith played together in a band called Metropolitan Blues Quartet.

“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 ...