'Blow-Up,' Antonioni's 1966 masterpiece, featured The Yardbirds in a key scene in a rock club. Originally, The Who were supposed to get the gig.

Jimmy Page and the Yardbirds in 1967 ... A young teenage Page joined a band but quit when he kept getting sick while touring. He landed the session player gig and made a good living, ...

Jimmy Page, Jim McCarty, Jeff Beck, Chris Dreja and Keith Relf of the Yardbirds, photographed at Dayton’s in downtown Minneapolis on Aug. 5, 1966. (LARRY SCHREIBER, Star Tribune file/The ...

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 ...

THE DAY OF THE PROM . T he Yardbirds’ lineup since December 1966 had been Keith Relf, Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, and Jimmy Page. “Incessant touring,” wrote The Yardbirds author Alan Clayson, was a way ...

The Yardbirds in 1966 (from left): eft to right: Jeff Beck, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja, Jimmy Page and Keith Relf (Image credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) It was an apprenticeship, and I ...

The Yardbirds took flight in early 1963. Inspired by American blues artists, the band of young British players wanted to recast the sounds of Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin' Wolf and Bo Diddley in ...

Amidst a series of personnel shuffles, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck would serve as the band's two guitar players, touring ...

Page —who, in addition to being inducted with Led Zeppelin, was also inducted as a member of The Yardbirds in 1992 — performed the guitarist's “Rumble” at the ceremony.

There was freedom in the air. Just not in throwback producer Mickie Most's sessions. "You have no idea how quickly the Little Games album was recorded," Page told writer Tony Bacon in 2014. His ...

Jimmy Page reflects on the Yardbirds and his short-lived two-guitar tandem with Jeff Beck. Jackson Maxwell. Wed, October 30, 2024 at 7:30 PM UTC. 2 min read.