The legendary English rock 'n' roll band - featuring Wood, vocalist Rod Stewart, and drummer Kenney Jones - have (briefly) ...

In 1963, Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith, Top Topham, Jim McCarty, and Chris Dreja formed the Yardbirds. After the band was initially formed, Eric Clapton replaced Topham. When Clapton departed from ...

Alice Cooper is one of the many musicians in the rock 'n' roll world who've posted on social media to pay their respects to legendary guitarist Jeff Beck, who died on Tuesday (Jan. 10) at 78. In his ...

Chris Dreja, co-founder of the Yardbirds, has passed away. The musician was 79. Both his sister-in-law Muriel Levy and former bandmate Jimmy Page confirmed the news on social media. A cause of death ...

Chris Dreja had a shot at being one of the founding members of Led Zeppelin, but he had a different creative pursuit in mind.

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.

OGUNQUIT, Maine — When the Yardbirds return to Jonathan’s Ogunquit for their second appearance there this Friday night, the band members will have more than their decades of rock 'n' roll hits to ...

Their first album, Five Live Yardbirds, established the band as one of the leaders on the London blues scene when it was released the previous December with Clapton. He had even, by this time, ...

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, ...

Guitar legends Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page are the three most famous alumni of The Yardbirds, the pioneering English blues-rock band that was formed in 1963, gave birth to Led Zeppelin in ...

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 ...

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 ...