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, ...

“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 ...

Whammy bars across the globe are at half-staff this week with word of the passing of legendary guitarist Jeff Beck. A crucial player of the second wave of the British Invasion, Beck died Tuesday after ...

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 ...

Chris Dreja, one of the founding members of the Yardbirds, has died aged 79. His passing, just weeks before his 80th birthday, has been confirmed by author and former Decca Records press officer David ...