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 ...
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The 'Roger The Engineer'-period Yardbirds. From left: Paul Samwell-Smith, Chris Dreja, Keith Relf, Jeff Beck, Jim McCarty In time, Page switched to guitar to play alongside Jeff Beck, and guitarist ...
Chris Dreja had a shot at being one of the founding members of Led Zeppelin, but he had a different creative pursuit in mind.
In the realm of rock and roll, few bands have left as significant a mark as The Yardbirds, especially for iconic figures like Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith. The influence of this legendary ...
Even if Jimmy Page had quit music before forming Led Zeppelin, he could have laid claim to a solid career in the music business. By 1964 (before he’d turned 21), Page had played on the A Hard Day’s ...
Jimmy Page with a guitar in his hands comes off as one of the most confident musicians ever. How confident? Enough to quit his lucrative session musician job and finally join the Yardbirds. Still, ...
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 ...
15 April 1966. The Yardbirds on the steps of The Royal Albert Hall, while being filmed for the US TV show ‘Where The Action Is’ Hearing a major figure in British pop being so frank is made doubly ...
His family said the rocker suddenly contracted bacterial meningitis and peacefully passed away Tuesday. By Mesfin Fekadu Jeff Beck, one of the greatest guitarists of all time who rose to fame in the ...