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id="toc-Musical_style-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Members" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Members"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Members</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Members-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Discography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Discography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Discography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Discography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" 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mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B1%D1%8A%D1%80%D0%B4%D1%81" title="Ярдбърдс – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Ярдбърдс" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B2" title="یاردبردز – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="یاردبردز" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%BC%EB%93%9C%EB%B2%84%EC%A6%88" title="야드버즈 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="야드버즈" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yardbirds" title="Yardbirds – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%99%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%93%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%93%D7%A1" title="היארדבירדס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="היארדבירדס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B0%D9%89_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B2" title="ذى ياردبيردز – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ذى ياردبيردز" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA" title="ヤードバーズ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ヤードバーズ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yardbirds" title="The Yardbirds – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="The Yardbirds" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a 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From left: Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Chris Dreja, Keith Relf, and Jim McCarty"><img alt="The Yardbirds, 1966. From left: Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Chris Dreja, Keith Relf, and Jim McCarty" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0e/Yardbirds_including_Page.JPG/250px-Yardbirds_including_Page.JPG" decoding="async" width="250" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/Yardbirds_including_Page.JPG 1.5x" data-file-width="375" data-file-height="266" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">The Yardbirds, 1966. From left: <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Beck" title="Jeff Beck">Jeff Beck</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Page" title="Jimmy Page">Jimmy Page</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chris_Dreja" title="Chris Dreja">Chris Dreja</a>, <a href="/wiki/Keith_Relf" title="Keith Relf">Keith Relf</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jim_McCarty" title="Jim McCarty">Jim McCarty</a></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de">Background information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Origin</th><td class="infobox-data">London, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output 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ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blues_rock" title="Blues rock">Blues rock</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psychedelic_rock" title="Psychedelic rock">psychedelic rock</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_rhythm_and_blues" title="British rhythm and blues">rhythm and blues</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Discography</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/The_Yardbirds_discography" title="The Yardbirds discography">The Yardbirds discography</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Years active</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><div class="hlist"> <ul><li>1963–1968</li> <li>1992–present</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Labels</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Columbia_Graphophone_Company" title="Columbia Graphophone Company">Columbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epic_Records" title="Epic Records">Epic</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spinoffs</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Led_Zeppelin" title="Led Zeppelin">Led Zeppelin</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li><li><a href="/wiki/Renaissance_(band)" title="Renaissance (band)">Renaissance</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Box_of_Frogs" title="Box of Frogs">Box of Frogs</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de"></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Members</th><td class="infobox-data"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jim_McCarty" title="Jim McCarty">Jim McCarty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenny_Aaronson" title="Kenny Aaronson">Kenny Aaronson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Idan" title="John Idan">John Idan</a></li> <li>Godfrey Townsend</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myke_Scavone" title="Myke Scavone">Myke Scavone</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de"></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Past members</span></th><td class="infobox-data"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Dreja" title="Chris Dreja">Chris Dreja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_Relf" title="Keith Relf">Keith Relf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Samwell-Smith" title="Paul Samwell-Smith">Paul Samwell-Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Top_Topham" title="Top Topham">Top Topham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Clapton" title="Eric Clapton">Eric Clapton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Beck" title="Jeff Beck">Jeff Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Page" title="Jimmy Page">Jimmy Page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rod_Demick" title="Rod Demick">Rod Demick</a></li> <li>Laurie German</li> <li>Dylan Henry</li> <li>Ray Majors</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gypie_Mayo" title="Gypie Mayo">Gypie Mayo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Glen" title="Alan Glen">Alan Glen</a></li> <li>Billy Boy Miskimmin</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Donahue" title="Jerry Donahue">Jerry Donahue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_King_(guitarist)" title="Ben King (guitarist)">Ben King</a></li> <li>Andy Mitchell</li> <li>David Smale</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earl_Slick" title="Earl Slick">Earl Slick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_A." title="Johnny A.">Johnny A.</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de"></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://theyardbirds.com">theyardbirds<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>The Yardbirds</b> are an English <a href="/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music">rock</a> band formed in London in 1963. The band started the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: <a href="/wiki/Eric_Clapton" title="Eric Clapton">Eric Clapton</a> (1963–1965), <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Beck" title="Jeff Beck">Jeff Beck</a> (1965–1966) and <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Page" title="Jimmy Page">Jimmy Page</a> (1966–1968), all of whom ranked in the top five of <i><a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a></i> magazine's list of 100 greatest guitarists.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The band's other members during 1963–1968 were vocalist/harmonica player <a href="/wiki/Keith_Relf" title="Keith Relf">Keith Relf</a>, drummer <a href="/wiki/Jim_McCarty" title="Jim McCarty">Jim McCarty</a>, rhythm guitarist <a href="/wiki/Chris_Dreja" title="Chris Dreja">Chris Dreja</a>, and bassist <a href="/wiki/Paul_Samwell-Smith" title="Paul Samwell-Smith">Paul Samwell-Smith</a>, with Dreja switching to bass when Samwell-Smith departed in 1966. The band had a string of hits throughout the mid-1960s, including "<a href="/wiki/For_Your_Love" title="For Your Love">For Your Love</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Heart_Full_of_Soul" title="Heart Full of Soul">Heart Full of Soul</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Shapes_of_Things" title="Shapes of Things">Shapes of Things</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/Over_Under_Sideways_Down" title="Over Under Sideways Down">Over Under Sideways Down</a>". </p><p>Originally a <a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">blues</a>-based band noted for their signature "rave-up" instrumental breaks,<sup id="cite_ref-The_Yardbirds_Biography_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Yardbirds_Biography-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Yardbirds broadened their range into <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop</a>, pioneered <a href="/wiki/Psychedelic_rock" title="Psychedelic rock">psychedelic rock</a> and early <a href="/wiki/Hard_rock" title="Hard rock">hard rock</a>, and contributed to many <a href="/wiki/Electric_guitar" title="Electric guitar">electric guitar</a> innovations of the mid-1960s. Some rock critics and historians also cite their influence on the later <a href="/wiki/Punk_rock" title="Punk rock">punk rock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Progressive_rock" title="Progressive rock">progressive rock</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music">heavy metal</a> trends.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBangs2003eBook_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBangs2003eBook-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-The_Yardbirds_Biography_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Yardbirds_Biography-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the band's split in 1968, Relf and McCarty formed <a href="/wiki/Renaissance_(band)" title="Renaissance (band)">Renaissance</a> and Page formed <a href="/wiki/Led_Zeppelin" title="Led Zeppelin">Led Zeppelin</a>. The Yardbirds re-formed in the 1990s, featuring McCarty and Dreja as the only original members. Dreja left the band in 2012, leaving McCarty as the sole original member of the band. </p><p>The band was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame</a> in 1992.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were included at number 89 in <i><a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'s</span> list of the "<a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone%27s_100_Greatest_Artists_of_All_Time" title="Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time">100 Greatest Artists of All Time</a>" and ranked number 37 on <a href="/wiki/VH1" title="VH1">VH1</a>'s <i>100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Yardbirds&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Beginnings_and_Clapton_line-up_(1963–1965)"><span id="Beginnings_and_Clapton_line-up_.281963.E2.80.931965.29"></span>Beginnings and Clapton line-up (1963–1965)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Yardbirds&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Beginnings and Clapton line-up (1963–1965)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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See <a href="/wiki/Help:Media" title="Help:Media">media help</a>.</i></div> </div> <p>The band formed in the south-west London suburbs in 1963. Relf and Samwell-Smith were originally in a band named the Metropolitan Blues Quartet. After being joined by Dreja, McCarty, and <a href="/wiki/Top_Topham" title="Top Topham">Top Topham</a>, they performed at Kingston Art School in late May 1963 as a backup band for <a href="/wiki/Cyril_Davies" title="Cyril Davies">Cyril Davies</a>. Following a couple of gigs in September 1963 as the Blue-Sounds, they changed their name to the Yardbirds. McCarty claims that Relf was the first to use the name; he may have got it from <a href="/wiki/Jack_Kerouac" title="Jack Kerouac">Jack Kerouac</a>'s novel <i><a href="/wiki/On_the_Road" title="On the Road">On the Road</a></i>, where it referred to railroad yard <a href="/wiki/Hobos" class="mw-redirect" title="Hobos">hobos</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCarty201862_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCarty201862-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He adds that Topham identified it as a nickname for jazz saxophonist <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Parker" title="Charlie Parker">Charlie "Yardbird" Parker</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCarty201862_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCarty201862-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The quintet achieved notice on the burgeoning <a href="/wiki/British_rhythm_and_blues" title="British rhythm and blues">British rhythm and blues</a> scene when they took over as the house band at the <a href="/wiki/Crawdaddy_Club" title="Crawdaddy Club">Crawdaddy Club</a> in <a href="/wiki/Richmond,_London" title="Richmond, London">Richmond</a>, succeeding <a href="/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones">the Rolling Stones</a>. Their repertoire drew from the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_blues" title="Chicago blues">Chicago blues</a> of <a href="/wiki/Howlin%27_Wolf" title="Howlin' Wolf">Howlin' Wolf</a>, <a href="/wiki/Muddy_Waters" title="Muddy Waters">Muddy Waters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bo_Diddley" title="Bo Diddley">Bo Diddley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sonny_Boy_Williamson_II" title="Sonny Boy Williamson II">Sonny Boy Williamson II</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Elmore_James" title="Elmore James">Elmore James</a>, including "<a href="/wiki/Smokestack_Lightning" title="Smokestack Lightning">Smokestack Lightning</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Good_Morning,_School_Girl" title="Good Morning, School Girl">Good Morning Little School Girl</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Boom_Boom_(John_Lee_Hooker_song)" title="Boom Boom (John Lee Hooker song)">Boom Boom</a>", "<a href="/wiki/I_Wish_You_Would_(Billy_Boy_Arnold_song)" title="I Wish You Would (Billy Boy Arnold song)">I Wish You Would</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Rollin%27_and_Tumblin%27" title="Rollin' and Tumblin'">Rollin' and Tumblin'</a>", "Got Love if You Want It", and "<a href="/wiki/I%27m_a_Man_(Bo_Diddley_song)" title="I'm a Man (Bo Diddley song)">I'm a Man</a>". </p><p>Original lead guitarist Topham left and was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Eric_Clapton" title="Eric Clapton">Eric Clapton</a> in October 1963. Crawdaddy Club impresario <a href="/wiki/Giorgio_Gomelsky" title="Giorgio Gomelsky">Giorgio Gomelsky</a> became their manager and first record producer. Under Gomelsky's guidance the Yardbirds toured Britain as the back-up band for blues legend <a href="/wiki/Sonny_Boy_Williamson_II" title="Sonny Boy Williamson II">Sonny Boy Williamson II</a> in December 1963 and early 1964.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERusso2016241_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERusso2016241-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Recordings from the performances were released two years later during the height of Yardbird popularity on the album <i><a href="/wiki/Sonny_Boy_Williamson_and_the_Yardbirds" title="Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds">Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Yardbirds_on_ad_1965.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/The_Yardbirds_on_ad_1965.jpg/220px-The_Yardbirds_on_ad_1965.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/The_Yardbirds_on_ad_1965.jpg/330px-The_Yardbirds_on_ad_1965.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/The_Yardbirds_on_ad_1965.jpg/440px-The_Yardbirds_on_ad_1965.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2630" data-file-height="2097" /></a><figcaption>The Yardbirds in 1964. L to R: Keith Relf, Eric Clapton, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja, Paul Samwell-Smith.</figcaption></figure> <p>After the tours with Williamson, the Yardbirds signed to <a href="/wiki/EMI" title="EMI">EMI</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Graphophone_Company" title="Columbia Graphophone Company">Columbia</a> label in February 1964, and recorded more live tracks on 20 March at the legendary <a href="/wiki/Marquee_Club" title="Marquee Club">Marquee Club</a> in London. The resulting album of mostly American blues and R&B covers, <i><a href="/wiki/Five_Live_Yardbirds" title="Five Live Yardbirds">Five Live Yardbirds</a></i>, was released by Columbia nine months later, and it failed to enter the <a href="/wiki/UK_Albums_Chart" title="UK Albums Chart">UK Albums Chart</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKodaRusso2001_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKodaRusso2001-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over time, <i>Five Live</i> gained stature as one of the few high-quality live recordings of the era and as an historical document of both the British rock and roll boom of the 1960s and Clapton's time in the band.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Clapton line-up recorded two singles, the blues "<a href="/wiki/I_Wish_You_Would_(Billy_Boy_Arnold_song)" title="I Wish You Would (Billy Boy Arnold song)">I Wish You Would</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Good_Morning,_School_Girl" title="Good Morning, School Girl">Good Morning, School Girl</a>", before the band scored its first major hit with "<a href="/wiki/For_Your_Love" title="For Your Love">For Your Love</a>", a <a href="/wiki/Graham_Gouldman" title="Graham Gouldman">Graham Gouldman</a> composition with a prominent harpsichord part by <a href="/wiki/Brian_Auger" title="Brian Auger">Brian Auger</a>. "For Your Love" was a Top-10 hit in the UK, Canada and the US but displeased Clapton, a blues purist whose vision extended beyond three-minute singles. Frustrated by their commercial approach, he abruptly left the band in March 1965, shortly after the single was released.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchumacher200344–45_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchumacher200344–45-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Soon after Clapton joined <a href="/wiki/John_Mayall_%26_the_Bluesbreakers" title="John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers">John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Beck" title="Jeff Beck">Jeff Beck</a> replaced him. The band first approached Jimmy Page, but content with his lucrative sessions work, and worried about both his health and the politics of Clapton's departure, Page recommended his friend Jeff Beck.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Beck played his first gig with the Yardbirds two days after Clapton's departure. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Beck_line-up_(1965–1966)"><span id="Beck_line-up_.281965.E2.80.931966.29"></span>Beck line-up (1965–1966)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Yardbirds&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Beck line-up (1965–1966)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Beck's exploration of fuzz tone, reverb, feedback, sustain, distortion, and <a href="/wiki/Hammer-on" title="Hammer-on">hammer-on</a> soloing fit well into the increasingly raw style of British beat music. The Yardbirds began to experiment with eclectic arrangements reminiscent of <a href="/wiki/Gregorian_chant" title="Gregorian chant">Gregorian chants</a> and various European and Asian styles while Beck infused a pervasive Middle Eastern influence into the mix. Beck was voted No. 1 lead guitarist of 1966 in the British music magazine <i>Beat Instrumental</i>. </p><p>The Beck-era Yardbirds produced many groundbreaking recordings, including the hit singles "<a href="/wiki/Heart_Full_of_Soul" title="Heart Full of Soul">Heart Full of Soul</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Evil_Hearted_You" title="Evil Hearted You">Evil Hearted You</a>"/"Still I'm Sad", a cover of Bo Diddley's "<a href="/wiki/I%27m_a_Man_(Bo_Diddley_song)" title="I'm a Man (Bo Diddley song)">I'm a Man</a>" (US only), "<a href="/wiki/Shapes_of_Things" title="Shapes of Things">Shapes of Things</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/Over_Under_Sideways_Down" title="Over Under Sideways Down">Over Under Sideways Down</a>",<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <i><a href="/wiki/Roger_the_Engineer" title="Roger the Engineer">Yardbirds</a></i> album (known popularly as <i><a href="/wiki/Roger_the_Engineer" title="Roger the Engineer">Roger the Engineer</a></i>). </p><p>Beck's fuzz-tone guitar riff on "<a href="/wiki/Heart_Full_of_Soul" title="Heart Full of Soul">Heart Full of Soul</a>" helped to introduce Indian-influenced guitar stylings to the <a href="/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart" class="mw-redirect" title="UK Singles Chart">UK Singles Chart</a> in the summer of 1965.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPower2011eBook_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPower2011eBook-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The follow-up, the reverb-laden "<a href="/wiki/Evil_Hearted_You" title="Evil Hearted You">Evil Hearted You</a>", furthered the Eastern influence, while its B-side, "Still I'm Sad", featured the band chanting like <a href="/wiki/Gregorian_chant" title="Gregorian chant">Gregorian monks</a>. The Diddley cover, "<a href="/wiki/I%27m_a_Man_(Bo_Diddley_song)" title="I'm a Man (Bo Diddley song)">I'm a Man</a>", was hard blues rock, featured the Yardbirds' signature "rave-up", where the tempo shifted to double time and Relf's harmonica and Beck's scratching guitar raced to a climax before falling back into the original beat. </p><p>The band embarked on their first US tour in late August 1965. A pair of albums were put together for the US market: <i><a href="/wiki/For_Your_Love_(album)" title="For Your Love (album)">For Your Love</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Having_a_Rave_Up" class="mw-redirect" title="Having a Rave Up">Having a Rave Up</a></i>, half of which came from the earlier <i>Five Live Yardbirds</i> album, combined with new tracks such as "<a href="/wiki/You%27re_a_Better_Man_Than_I" class="mw-redirect" title="You're a Better Man Than I">You're a Better Man Than I</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Train_Kept_A-Rollin%27" title="Train Kept A-Rollin'">Train Kept A-Rollin'</a>", both recorded with legendary producer Sam Phillips at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, during the first US tour.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPower2011eBook_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPower2011eBook-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were three more United States tours during Beck's time with the band and a brief European tour in April 1966. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Yardbirds_in_1965_(true_monochrome).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/The_Yardbirds_in_1965_%28true_monochrome%29.jpg/220px-The_Yardbirds_in_1965_%28true_monochrome%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="242" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/The_Yardbirds_in_1965_%28true_monochrome%29.jpg/330px-The_Yardbirds_in_1965_%28true_monochrome%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/The_Yardbirds_in_1965_%28true_monochrome%29.jpg/440px-The_Yardbirds_in_1965_%28true_monochrome%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2307" data-file-height="2536" /></a><figcaption>The Yardbirds in 1965. Clockwise from top: Jeff Beck, Paul Samwell-Smith, Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, Keith Relf.</figcaption></figure> <p>The single "<a href="/wiki/Shapes_of_Things" title="Shapes of Things">Shapes of Things</a>", released in February 1966, "can justifiably be classified as the first psychedelic rock classic," according to music journalist <a href="/wiki/Richie_Unterberger" title="Richie Unterberger">Richie Unterberger</a><sup id="cite_ref-:3_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and heralded the coming of British psychedelia<sup id="cite_ref-:4_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> three months before the Beatles' "<a href="/wiki/Paperback_Writer" title="Paperback Writer">Paperback Writer</a>"/"<a href="/wiki/Rain_(Beatles_song)" title="Rain (Beatles song)">Rain</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reaching number three on the UK charts<sup id="cite_ref-:4_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 11 in the US,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Shapes" was also the Yardbirds' first self-penned hit, the previous three UK A-sides having been written by Gouldman. Relf's vague anti-war protest lyrics and Beck's feedback-driven, Middle Eastern-influenced solo reflected the band's increasing embrace of psychedelia,<sup id="cite_ref-:3_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as did the UK B-side "You're a Better Man Than I" and the follow-up single, "<a href="/wiki/Over_Under_Sideways_Down" title="Over Under Sideways Down">Over Under Sideways Down</a>". The latter was released in May and features more quixotic lyrics by Relf and another Eastern-inspired guitar line by Beck. </p><p>The "Over Under Sideways Down" sessions were held in April 1966 and produced the album <i><a href="/wiki/Yardbirds_(album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Yardbirds (album)">Yardbirds</a></i>. It was commonly referred to as "<a href="/wiki/Roger_the_Engineer" title="Roger the Engineer">Roger the Engineer</a>", which were the words scrawled under a cartoon by Dreja of engineer Roger Cameron that appears on the cover of the UK release.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the US, an abridged version of the album, minus the cartoon cover art, was released as <i><a href="/wiki/Over_Under_Sideways_Down_(album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Over Under Sideways Down (album)">Over Under Sideways Down</a></i>. The recording session marked the Yardbirds' split with their manager, <a href="/wiki/Giorgio_Gomelsky" title="Giorgio Gomelsky">Giorgio Gomelsky</a>, as writer <a href="/wiki/Simon_Napier-Bell" title="Simon Napier-Bell">Simon Napier-Bell</a> took over management and shared production credit with Samwell-Smith. </p><p>The band, led by Relf and McCarty, eschewed cover material, writing the entire album themselves. They were allotted "a whole week" to record the album, according to Dreja,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> resulting in a "crammed" albeit an eclectic mix of blues, hard rock, monkish chanting ("Turn into Earth", "Ever Since the World Began") and African tribal rhythms ("Hot House of Omagararshid"). Beck's guitar lines were a unifying constant throughout. <i>Roger the Engineer</i> was ranked at number 350 on <i><a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a></i> magazine's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Beck/Page_line-up_(1966)"><span id="Beck.2FPage_line-up_.281966.29"></span>Beck/Page line-up (1966)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Yardbirds&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Beck/Page line-up (1966)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Roger the Engineer</i> was released in June 1966. Soon afterward, Samwell-Smith quit the band at a drunken gig at Queen's College in Oxford<sup id="cite_ref-1977_Jimmy_Page_Interview_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1977_Jimmy_Page_Interview-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and embarked on a career as a record producer. <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Page" title="Jimmy Page">Jimmy Page</a>, who was at the show, agreed that night to play bass until rhythm guitarist Dreja could rehearse on the instrument.<sup id="cite_ref-1977_Jimmy_Page_Interview_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1977_Jimmy_Page_Interview-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The band toured with Page on bass, and Beck and Dreja on guitars, playing dates in Paris, the UK, the <a href="/wiki/Midwestern_United_States" title="Midwestern United States">Midwestern US</a>, and the California coast. Beck fell ill late in the latter tour and was hospitalised in San Francisco. Page took over as lead guitarist at the Carousel Ballroom (San Francisco) on 25 August and Dreja switched to bass. Beck stayed in San Francisco to recuperate<sup id="cite_ref-:0_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with his girlfriend Mary Hughes,<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while the rest of the band completed the tour. After the Yardbirds reunited in London, Dreja remained on bass and the group's dual lead guitar attack was born.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Beck/Page lead guitar partnership created the <a href="/wiki/Avant-garde" title="Avant-garde">avant-garde</a> psychedelic rock single "<a href="/wiki/Happenings_Ten_Years_Time_Ago" title="Happenings Ten Years Time Ago">Happenings Ten Years Time Ago</a>" (with future Led Zeppelin bassist <a href="/wiki/John_Paul_Jones_(musician)" title="John Paul Jones (musician)">John Paul Jones</a> on bass instead of Dreja), which the band recorded in July and September 1966. The single's UK B-side was "<a href="/wiki/Psycho_Daisies" class="mw-redirect" title="Psycho Daisies">Psycho Daisies</a>", two minutes of garage punk sludge<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> featuring Beck on vocals and lead guitar, and Page on bass. The single's B-side in the US, "The Nazz Are Blue", also features a lead vocal by Beck. </p><p>The Yardbirds also recorded "Stroll On", a reworking of "<a href="/wiki/Train_Kept_A-Rollin%27" title="Train Kept A-Rollin'">Train Kept A-Rollin'</a>", recorded for <a href="/wiki/Michelangelo_Antonioni" title="Michelangelo Antonioni">Michelangelo Antonioni</a>'s critically acclaimed film <i><a href="/wiki/Blowup" title="Blowup">Blow-Up</a></i>. Relf changed the song's lyrics and title to avoid having to seek permission from the copyright holder. Their appearance in the film, about a hip fashion photographer (played by <a href="/wiki/David_Hemmings" title="David Hemmings">David Hemmings</a>) undergoing an existential crisis in <a href="/wiki/Swinging_London" class="mw-redirect" title="Swinging London">Swinging London</a>, came after <a href="/wiki/The_Who" title="The Who">the Who</a> declined and the <a href="/wiki/Tomorrow_(band)" title="Tomorrow (band)">In-Crowd</a> were unable to attend the filming. <a href="/wiki/Andy_Warhol" title="Andy Warhol">Andy Warhol</a>'s "Factory" band <a href="/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground" title="The Velvet Underground">the Velvet Underground</a> was also considered for the part but was unable to acquire UK work permits.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Director Antonioni instructed Beck to smash his guitar in emulation of the Who's <a href="/wiki/Pete_Townshend" title="Pete Townshend">Pete Townshend</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The guitar that Beck destroys in the film was a cheap <a href="/wiki/H%C3%B6fner" title="Höfner">Höfner</a> instrument. </p><p>The Beck/Page line-up recorded little else in the studio. No live recordings of the dual-lead guitar lineup have surfaced, except for "Great Shakes",<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a commercial recorded for Great Shakes milkshakes using the opening riff of "<a href="/wiki/Over_Under_Sideways_Down" title="Over Under Sideways Down">Over Under Sideways Down</a>", included on the 1992 <i><a href="/wiki/Little_Games_Sessions_and_More" class="mw-redirect" title="Little Games Sessions and More">Little Games Sessions & More</a></i> compilation. </p><p>One recording made by Beck and Page in May 1966, just weeks before Page joined the Yardbirds, was "<a href="/wiki/Beck%27s_Bolero" title="Beck's Bolero">Beck's Bolero</a>". This piece was inspired by <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Ravel" title="Maurice Ravel">Ravel's</a> "Bolero" and credited to Page (although Beck also claims to have written the song), with John Paul Jones on bass, <a href="/wiki/Keith_Moon" title="Keith Moon">Keith Moon</a> on drums and <a href="/wiki/Nicky_Hopkins" title="Nicky Hopkins">Nicky Hopkins</a> on piano. Around the time of this session, the idea of a "<a href="/wiki/Supergroup_(music)" title="Supergroup (music)">supergroup</a>" involving Beck, Page, Moon, and Who bassist <a href="/wiki/John_Entwistle" title="John Entwistle">John Entwistle</a> originated, with Entwistle suggesting it would "go over like a lead balloon" and Moon quipping that they could call the band "Lead Zeppelin".<sup id="cite_ref-Interview_with_Jimmy_Page_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Interview_with_Jimmy_Page-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although all the musicians remained with their respective bands, Page recalled the conversation in 1968 when deciding on the name for Led Zeppelin. "Beck's Bolero" was first released in 1967 as the B-side of Beck's first solo single, "<a href="/wiki/Hi_Ho_Silver_Lining" title="Hi Ho Silver Lining">Hi Ho Silver Lining</a>", and was included the following year on <a href="/wiki/The_Jeff_Beck_Group" title="The Jeff Beck Group">the Jeff Beck Group</a>'s debut album, <i><a href="/wiki/Truth_(Jeff_Beck_album)" title="Truth (Jeff Beck album)">Truth</a></i>. </p><p>The Yardbirds opened for the <a href="/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones_1966_tours" title="The Rolling Stones 1966 tours">Rolling Stones' 1966 UK tour</a> (with <a href="/wiki/Ike_%26_Tina_Turner" title="Ike & Tina Turner">Ike & Tina Turner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Jay_and_the_Jaywalkers" title="Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers">Peter Jay</a> and <a href="/wiki/Long_John_Baldry" title="Long John Baldry">Long John Baldry</a> also on the bill), released the "<a href="/wiki/Happenings_Ten_Years_Time_Ago" title="Happenings Ten Years Time Ago">Happenings</a>" single, shot their scenes in <i>Blow-Up</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and then headed back to the US for a show at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, and a slot on <i>American Bandstand</i> host <a href="/wiki/Dick_Clark" title="Dick Clark">Dick Clark</a>'s "Caravan of Stars" tour, which they joined in Texas. After a few shows with the Caravan, Beck stormed out and headed back to San Francisco and Mary Hughes. The band, still in Texas, continued on the Dick Clark tour as a quartet, with Page as the sole lead guitarist. They caught up with Beck in late November, at which point Beck officially left the band. Beck's lack of professionalism, his temper, Relf's drunkenness, the gruelling and unrewarding Dick Clark Caravan, and other pressures were cited, none of which involved Beck being fired.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_28-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Beck's official departure was announced on 30 November in the US.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_28-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Yardbirds finished their remaining US dates with Page as sole lead guitarist and headed back to the UK for more shows scheduled by Napier-Bell. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Page_line-up_and_split_(1966–1968)"><span id="Page_line-up_and_split_.281966.E2.80.931968.29"></span>Page line-up and split (1966–1968)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Yardbirds&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Page line-up and split (1966–1968)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Page subsequently introduced playing the guitar with a <a href="/wiki/Bow_(music)" title="Bow (music)">cello bow</a> (suggested to him by violinist <a href="/wiki/David_McCallum_Sr." title="David McCallum Sr.">David McCallum Sr.</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the combination of a <a href="/wiki/Wah-wah_pedal" title="Wah-wah pedal">wah-wah pedal</a> in addition to a distortion <a href="/wiki/Distortion_(music)" title="Distortion (music)">fuzzbox</a>. Other innovations included the use of a taped noise loop in live settings (on the psychedelic dirge "Glimpses") and <a href="/wiki/Guitar_tunings#Open_tunings" title="Guitar tunings">open-tuned guitar</a> to enhance the sitar-like sounds the Yardbirds were known for. </p><p>Meanwhile, the act's commercial fortunes were declining. "<a href="/wiki/Happenings_Ten_Years_Time_Ago" title="Happenings Ten Years Time Ago">Happenings Ten Years Time Ago</a>" had only reached No. 30 on the US Hot 100 and had fared worse in the U.K. The band dropped Napier-Bell and entered into a partnership with Columbia Records hit-making producer <a href="/wiki/Mickie_Most" title="Mickie Most">Mickie Most</a>, known for his work with <a href="/wiki/The_Animals" title="The Animals">the Animals</a>, <a href="/wiki/Herman%27s_Hermits" title="Herman's Hermits">Herman's Hermits</a> and <a href="/wiki/Donovan" title="Donovan">Donovan</a>, yet this move failed to reignite their chart success. Most was hired by the Yardbirds' label to broaden their pop appeal and rectify their waning chart performance; however, the band's change in sound under his direction was poorly received. After the disappointing sales of "Happenings", the single "<a href="/wiki/Little_Games" title="Little Games">Little Games</a>" released in March 1967 flopped so badly in the UK (where it was backed by "Puzzles") that EMI did not release another Yardbirds record there until after the band broke up. A 1968 UK release of the "Goodnight Sweet Josephine" single was planned but cancelled. A version of <a href="/wiki/Tony_Hazzard" title="Tony Hazzard">Tony Hazzard</a>'s "Ha Ha Said the Clown" (recorded by Relf with session musicians and none of the other Yardbirds), backed by the Relf–McCarty original "Tinker Tailor, Soldier Sailor", was the band's last single to enter the US top 50, peaking at No. 44 on the <i>Billboard</i> chart in the summer of 1967. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bonnie_Maclean,_affiche_de_la_tourn%C3%A9e_des_Yardbirds,_1967.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Bonnie_Maclean%2C_affiche_de_la_tourn%C3%A9e_des_Yardbirds%2C_1967.jpg/220px-Bonnie_Maclean%2C_affiche_de_la_tourn%C3%A9e_des_Yardbirds%2C_1967.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="328" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Bonnie_Maclean%2C_affiche_de_la_tourn%C3%A9e_des_Yardbirds%2C_1967.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="282" data-file-height="420" /></a><figcaption>Poster ad for Fillmore West shows, July 1967.</figcaption></figure> <p>Epic released <i><a href="/wiki/The_Yardbirds_Greatest_Hits" title="The Yardbirds Greatest Hits">The Yardbirds Greatest Hits</a></i> in the US in March 1967. <i>Greatest Hits</i> described to the Yardbirds' growing American audience an almost complete picture of "what made the Yardbirds a great band", according to <a href="/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a> critic Bruce Eder.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the description by author Greg Russo, the compilation also presented young garage rock musicians of the psychedelic era with a handy textbook of the band's work during 1965–66.<sup id="cite_ref-Russo,_Greg_1998_p._48_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russo,_Greg_1998_p._48-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Greatest Hits</i> was the Yardbirds' best-selling US album release, peaking at No. 28 on the <i>Billboard</i> chart. The band spent the first half of 1967 touring Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, and France (including a stop in Cannes to help promote <i>Blow-Up)</i>. They also played a handful of shows in the UK in June, before heading to Vancouver to begin their fourth tour of North America with Page.<sup id="cite_ref-Russo,_Greg_1998_p._48_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russo,_Greg_1998_p._48-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Their final album, <i><a href="/wiki/Little_Games" title="Little Games">Little Games</a></i>, was released in July 1967, again only in the US. It was a commercial and critical non-entity. A cover of <a href="/wiki/Harry_Nilsson" title="Harry Nilsson">Harry Nilsson</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Ten_Little_Indians_(Harry_Nilsson_song)" title="Ten Little Indians (Harry Nilsson song)">Ten Little Indians</a>" charted briefly in the US. The Yardbirds spent much of the rest of that year touring in the US with a new manager <a href="/wiki/Peter_Grant_(music_manager)" title="Peter Grant (music manager)">Peter Grant</a>, their live shows becoming heavier and more experimental. The band rarely played their 1967 Mickie Most-produced singles on stage, preferring to mix the Beck-era hits with blues standards and experimental psychedelia, such as "Glimpses", a Page-written piece from <i><a href="/wiki/Little_Games" title="Little Games">Little Games</a></i> featuring bowed guitars, pre-recorded noise loops, and a hypnotic wah-wah guitar groove. They also covered <a href="/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground" title="The Velvet Underground">the Velvet Underground</a> ("<a href="/wiki/I%27m_Waiting_for_the_Man" title="I'm Waiting for the Man">I'm Waiting for the Man</a>"), <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a> ("<a href="/wiki/Most_Likely_You_Go_Your_Way_And_I%27ll_Go_Mine" class="mw-redirect" title="Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine">Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine</a>") and American folk singer <a href="/wiki/Jake_Holmes" title="Jake Holmes">Jake Holmes</a>, whose "<a href="/wiki/Dazed_and_Confused_(Jake_Holmes_song)" title="Dazed and Confused (Jake Holmes song)">Dazed and Confused</a>", with overhauled arrangement by Page and lyrics modified by Relf, was shaped in fall of 1967 and a live fixture of the final American tour in 1968. "Dazed and Confused" went down so well that Page selected it for the first Led Zeppelin record, on which it appears with further revised lyrics and Page credited as the writer. (Page and Holmes would settle on an "Inspired by" credit for Holmes in 2011).<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 1968, the psychedelic blues rock of <a href="/wiki/The_Jimi_Hendrix_Experience" class="mw-redirect" title="The Jimi Hendrix Experience">the Jimi Hendrix Experience</a> and former Yardbird Eric Clapton's band <a href="/wiki/Cream_(band)" title="Cream (band)">Cream</a> was enormously popular, yet Relf and McCarty wished to pursue a style influenced by folk and classical music. Page wanted to continue with the kind of "heavy" music for which Led Zeppelin would become iconic. Dreja was developing an interest in photography. By March, Relf and McCarty had decided to leave but were persuaded by the other two to stay at least for one more American tour. The band's final single was recorded in January and released two months later. Reflecting the divergences of the band members and their producer, the A-side, "Goodnight Sweet Josephine", was another Mickie Most-produced pop single, while the B-side, "Think About It", featured a proto-Zeppelin Page riff and snippets of the "Dazed and Confused" guitar solo. It failed to chart on the <i>Billboard</i> Hot 100. </p><p>A concert and some album tracks were recorded in New York City in March and early April (including the unreleased song "Knowing That I'm Losing You", an early version of a track that would be re-recorded by <a href="/wiki/Led_Zeppelin" title="Led Zeppelin">Led Zeppelin</a> as "<a href="/wiki/Tangerine_(Led_Zeppelin_song)" title="Tangerine (Led Zeppelin song)">Tangerine</a>").<sup id="cite_ref-Complete_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Complete-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All were shelved at the band's request, but after Led Zeppelin became successful Epic tried to release the concert material as <i><a href="/wiki/Live_Yardbirds:_Featuring_Jimmy_Page" title="Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page">Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page</a></i>. The album was quickly withdrawn after Page's lawyers filed an injunction. The Yardbirds played their final shows on 31 May and 1 June at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, and on 4 and 5 June at the Spring Fair at the Montgomery International Speedway in Alabama. The Los Angeles shows were documented in the bootleg release <i>Last Rave-Up in L.A</i>. The Yardbirds announced the departure of Relf and McCarty in a press release on 12 June ("Two Yardbirds Fly")<sup id="cite_ref-:2_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and returned home to play one last show, on 7 July 1968, at the <a href="/wiki/Luton_College_of_Technology" class="mw-redirect" title="Luton College of Technology">College of Technology</a> in <a href="/wiki/Luton" title="Luton">Luton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bedfordshire" title="Bedfordshire">Bedfordshire</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Russo,_Greg_1998_p._48_38-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russo,_Greg_1998_p._48-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> supported by the Linton Grae Sound.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a></i> magazine announced the break-up by saying that Page "intends to go into solo recording work".<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_New_Yardbirds/Led_Zeppelin_(1968)"><span id="The_New_Yardbirds.2FLed_Zeppelin_.281968.29"></span>The New Yardbirds/Led Zeppelin (1968)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Yardbirds&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The New Yardbirds/Led Zeppelin (1968)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Led_Zeppelin" title="Led Zeppelin">Led Zeppelin</a></div> <p>Page and Dreja, with a tour of <a href="/wiki/Scandinavia" title="Scandinavia">Scandinavia</a> scheduled for late summer 1968,<sup id="cite_ref-:2_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> saw the break-up as an opportunity to put a new lineup together, with Page as producer and Grant as manager. Page initially described his vision for the new band as "a new sort of collage of sound" that would include <a href="/wiki/Mellotron" title="Mellotron">mellotron</a> keyboard while still featuring the guitar.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Drummers <a href="/wiki/B.J._Wilson" class="mw-redirect" title="B.J. Wilson">B.J. Wilson</a> of <a href="/wiki/Procol_Harum" title="Procol Harum">Procol Harum</a>, Paul Francis, and session man <a href="/wiki/Clem_Cattini" title="Clem Cattini">Clem Cattini</a>, who had guested on more than a few Yardbirds tracks under Most's supervision, were considered for the band,<sup id="cite_ref-Russo,_Greg_1998_p._48_38-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russo,_Greg_1998_p._48-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as was vocalist and composer <a href="/wiki/Terry_Reid" title="Terry Reid">Terry Reid</a>. Reid declined because of a new recording contract with Most and recommended the then-unknown <a href="/wiki/Robert_Plant" title="Robert Plant">Robert Plant</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Schulps_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schulps-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Plant, in turn, recommended his childhood friend <a href="/wiki/John_Bonham" title="John Bonham">John Bonham</a> as a drummer.<sup id="cite_ref-Note1_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Note1-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dreja bowed out to pursue a career as a rock photographer.<sup id="cite_ref-Russo,_Greg_1998_p._48_38-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russo,_Greg_1998_p._48-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bassist/keyboardist/arranger <a href="/wiki/John_Paul_Jones_(musician)" title="John Paul Jones (musician)">John Paul Jones</a>, who had worked with Page on countless sessions including several with the Yardbirds, approached Page and offered to be the new bassist.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rehearsals began in mid-August 1968; in early September, Page's revised Yardbirds embarked as the New Yardbirds on the <a href="/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_Scandinavian_Tour_1968" title="Led Zeppelin Scandinavian Tour 1968">Scandinavian tour</a>, after which the band returned to the UK to produce what would become the <a href="/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_(album)" title="Led Zeppelin (album)">debut Led Zeppelin album</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:J_Page%22_whole_lotta_love%22_.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/J_Page%22_whole_lotta_love%22_.jpg/220px-J_Page%22_whole_lotta_love%22_.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/J_Page%22_whole_lotta_love%22_.jpg/330px-J_Page%22_whole_lotta_love%22_.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/J_Page%22_whole_lotta_love%22_.jpg/440px-J_Page%22_whole_lotta_love%22_.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1400" data-file-height="1867" /></a><figcaption>Jimmy Page on stage with Led Zeppelin, 1969</figcaption></figure> <p>While Page's new roster still played a few songs from the Yardbirds' canon – usually "Train Kept a-Rollin<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>", "Dazed and Confused" or "For Your Love" and snatches of Beck's "Shapes of Things" solo – a name (and identity) change was in order in October 1968. They appeared on contracts, promotional material, ticket stubs<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and other collateral as "The Yardbirds" or "The New Yardbirds" for three shows in October 1968, with the Marquee Club date reported as the Yardbirds' "farewell London appearance"<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Liverpool University show 19 October announced as the Yardbirds' "last ever appearance".<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This may have been motivated, at least in part, by a cease-and-desist order from Dreja, who claimed that he maintained legal rights to "The Yardbirds" name,<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although most sources indicate that Page and Grant fully intended to change the name after they returned from Scandinavia with or without the nudge from Dreja.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 19 October 1968 onwards, they were <a href="/wiki/Led_Zeppelin" title="Led Zeppelin">Led Zeppelin</a>, the name taken from <a href="/wiki/The_Who" title="The Who">the Who</a> bandmembers Moon and Entwistle's "lead balloon" discussion of the "supergroup" that had played on the "Beck's Bolero" sessions in May 1966.<sup id="cite_ref-Interview_with_Jimmy_Page_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Interview_with_Jimmy_Page-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The spelling of "lead" was changed to avoid confusion over the pronunciation. This effectively marked the end of the Yardbirds for the next 24 years.<sup id="cite_ref-Jimmy_Page_Online_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jimmy_Page_Online-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="After_the_Yardbirds_(1968–1992)"><span id="After_the_Yardbirds_.281968.E2.80.931992.29"></span>After the Yardbirds (1968–1992)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Yardbirds&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: After the Yardbirds (1968–1992)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Relf and McCarty formed an <a href="/wiki/Acoustic_rock" class="mw-redirect" title="Acoustic rock">acoustic rock</a> band called Together and then <a href="/wiki/Renaissance_(band)" title="Renaissance (band)">Renaissance</a>, which recorded two albums for <a href="/wiki/Island_Records" title="Island Records">Island Records</a> over two years. McCarty formed the band Shoot in 1973. Relf, after producing albums for <a href="/wiki/Medicine_Head" title="Medicine Head">Medicine Head</a> (with whom he also played bass) and Saturnalia, resurfaced in 1975 with a new quartet, <a href="/wiki/Armageddon_(A%26M_band)" class="mw-redirect" title="Armageddon (A&M band)">Armageddon</a>; a hybrid of <a href="/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music">heavy metal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hard_rock" title="Hard rock">hard rock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Folk_music" title="Folk music">folk</a> influences, which now included former Renaissance bandmate <a href="/wiki/Louis_Cennamo" title="Louis Cennamo">Louis Cennamo</a>, drummer <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Caldwell_(drummer)" title="Bobby Caldwell (drummer)">Bobby Caldwell</a> (previously a member of <a href="/wiki/Captain_Beyond" title="Captain Beyond">Captain Beyond</a> and <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Winter" title="Johnny Winter">Johnny Winter</a>), and guitarist <a href="/wiki/Martin_Pugh" title="Martin Pugh">Martin Pugh</a> (from <a href="/wiki/Steamhammer_(band)" title="Steamhammer (band)">Steamhammer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rod_Stewart" title="Rod Stewart">Rod Stewart</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/An_Old_Raincoat_Won%27t_Ever_Let_You_Down" title="An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down">An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down</a></i>, and most recently in <a href="/wiki/7th_Order_(band)" class="mw-redirect" title="7th Order (band)">7th Order</a>). They recorded one promising album before Relf died in an electrical accident in his home studio on 12 May 1976.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1977, <a href="/wiki/Illusion_(UK_band)" class="mw-redirect" title="Illusion (UK band)">Illusion</a> was formed, featuring a reunited lineup of the original Renaissance, including McCarty and Keith's sister <a href="/wiki/Jane_Relf" title="Jane Relf">Jane Relf</a>. </p><p>In the 1980s McCarty, Dreja, and Samwell-Smith formed a short-lived Yardbirds semi-reunion called <a href="/wiki/Box_of_Frogs" title="Box of Frogs">Box of Frogs</a>, which occasionally included Beck and Page plus various friends with whom they had all recorded over the years. They recorded two albums for Epic, the self-titled <i>Box of Frogs</i> (1984) and <i>Strange Land</i> (1986). McCarty was also part of the British Invasion All-Stars with members of Procol Harum, <a href="/wiki/The_Creation_(band)" title="The Creation (band)">the Creation</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Nashville_Teens" class="mw-redirect" title="Nashville Teens">Nashville Teens</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Downliners_Sect" title="Downliners Sect">Downliners Sect</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Pretty_Things" class="mw-redirect" title="The Pretty Things">the Pretty Things</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Phil_May_(singer)" title="Phil May (singer)">Phil May</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dick_Taylor" title="Dick Taylor">Dick Taylor</a> of the Pretty Things, together with McCarty, recorded two albums in <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a> as the Pretty Things–Yardbirds Blues Band – <i>The Chicago Blues Tapes 1991</i> and <i>Wine, Women, Whiskey</i>, both produced by <a href="/wiki/George_Paulus" title="George Paulus">George Paulus</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Yardbirds_(1998)_-_Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_handprints_(2014_photograph).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/The_Yardbirds_%281998%29_-_Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_handprints_%282014_photograph%29.jpg/250px-The_Yardbirds_%281998%29_-_Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_handprints_%282014_photograph%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="70" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/The_Yardbirds_%281998%29_-_Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_handprints_%282014_photograph%29.jpg/330px-The_Yardbirds_%281998%29_-_Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_handprints_%282014_photograph%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/The_Yardbirds_%281998%29_-_Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_handprints_%282014_photograph%29.jpg/500px-The_Yardbirds_%281998%29_-_Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_handprints_%282014_photograph%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="307" /></a><figcaption>1998 handprints of members of the Yardbirds at the <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame</a>: (<i>left to right</i>) Page, Beck, Dreja, McCarty, Clapton</figcaption></figure> <p>The Yardbirds were inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame</a> in 1992. Nearly all the surviving musicians who had been part of the band's heyday, including Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, appeared at the ceremony (original lead guitarist Top Topham was not included).<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eric Clapton, whose Hall of Fame induction was the first of three, was unable to attend because of his obligations while recording and working on a show for the <i><a href="/wiki/MTV_Unplugged" title="MTV Unplugged">MTV Unplugged</a></i> series. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reformation_(1992–present)"><span id="Reformation_.281992.E2.80.93present.29"></span>Reformation (1992–present)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Yardbirds&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Reformation (1992–present)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Yardbirds-1882.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Yardbirds-1882.jpg/220px-Yardbirds-1882.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="331" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Yardbirds-1882.jpg/330px-Yardbirds-1882.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Yardbirds-1882.jpg 2x" data-file-width="426" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>Jim McCarty on stage, 2008</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1992, Peter Barton from Rock Artist Management contacted Jim McCarty about the prospect of reforming the Yardbirds. McCarty was interested but only if Chris Dreja would agree, but at the time he thought it highly unlikely that Dreja would want to tour again. Barton then contacted Dreja, who agreed to give it a try. Their debut gig was booked at the Marquee Club in London along with the newly reformed <a href="/wiki/The_Animals" title="The Animals">Animals</a>. It was a great success. The lineup featured John Idan handling bass and lead vocals. Barton managed the band and booked all their dates for over a decade; he still works with the band on occasion. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Yardbirds2006_2.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Yardbirds2006_2.JPG/250px-Yardbirds2006_2.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Yardbirds2006_2.JPG/330px-Yardbirds2006_2.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Yardbirds2006_2.JPG/500px-Yardbirds2006_2.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>The Yardbirds at <a href="/wiki/Langueux" title="Langueux">Langueux</a>, France, 9 September 2006. L to R: John Idan, Jim McCarty (<i>behind the drums</i>) and Chris Dreja. Photo: Corentin Lamy.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2003, a new album, <i><a href="/wiki/Birdland_(2003_Yardbirds_recording)" class="mw-redirect" title="Birdland (2003 Yardbirds recording)">Birdland</a></i>, was released under the Yardbirds name on the <a href="/wiki/Favored_Nations" title="Favored Nations">Favored Nations</a> label by a lineup including Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, and new members <a href="/wiki/Gypie_Mayo" title="Gypie Mayo">Gypie Mayo</a> (lead guitar, backing vocals), John Idan (bass, lead vocals) and <a href="/wiki/Alan_Glen" title="Alan Glen">Alan Glen</a> (harmonica, backing vocals), which consisted of a mixture of new material mostly penned by McCarty and re-recordings of some of their greatest hits, with guest appearances by <a href="/wiki/Joe_Satriani" title="Joe Satriani">Joe Satriani</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Vai" title="Steve Vai">Steve Vai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Slash_(musician)" title="Slash (musician)">Slash</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brian_May" title="Brian May">Brian May</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Lukather" title="Steve Lukather">Steve Lukather</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jeff_%22Skunk%22_Baxter" class="mw-redirect" title="Jeff "Skunk" Baxter">Jeff "Skunk" Baxter</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Rzeznik" title="John Rzeznik">John Rzeznik</a>, Martin Ditchum and Simon McCarty. Also, Jeff Beck reunited with his former bandmates on the song "My Blind Life". And then there was the rare and improbable guest appearance on stage in 2005 by their first guitarist from the 1960s, Top Topham. </p><p>After the release of <i>Birdland</i>, Mayo was replaced briefly by <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Donahue" title="Jerry Donahue">Jerry Donahue</a>, and subsequently in 2005 by the then 20-year-old guitarist <a href="/wiki/Ben_King_(guitarist)" title="Ben King (guitarist)">Ben King</a>, while Glen was replaced by Billy Boy Miskimmin from <a href="/wiki/Nine_Below_Zero" title="Nine Below Zero">Nine Below Zero</a> fame. In 2007 the Yardbirds released a live CD, recorded on 19 July 2006, entitled <i>Live at B.B. King Blues Club</i> (Favored Nations), featuring the McCarty, Dreja, Idan, King, and Miskimmin line-up. The first episode of the 2007/08 season for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons" title="The Simpsons">The Simpsons</a></i> featured the Yardbirds' "I'm a Man" from the CD <i>Live at B.B. King Blues Club</i> (Favored Nations). </p><p>According to his website, Idan resigned from the Yardbirds in August 2008,<sup id="cite_ref-www.johnidan.com_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-www.johnidan.com-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although his last gig with them was on Friday 24 April 2009, when they headlined the first concert in the new Live Room venue at <a href="/wiki/Twickenham_Stadium" title="Twickenham Stadium">Twickenham rugby stadium</a>. This was also Glen's last gig with the band after temporarily standing in when Miskimmin was unavailable. Idan and Glen were replaced by Andy Mitchell (lead vocals, harmonica, acoustic guitar) and David Smale (bass, backing vocals), brother of the virtuoso guitarist Jonathan Smale. Dreja sat out the US spring 2012 tour to recover from an illness. It was announced in 2013 that he was leaving the band for medical reasons and would be replaced by original Yardbirds guitarist Topham.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>McCarty announced in December 2014 that the current lineup of the Yardbirds had disbanded. He told fans in an email that he would be "working on solo ventures and other Yardbirds projects in 2015.”<sup id="cite_ref-PsychedelicSight.com_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PsychedelicSight.com-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the Yardbirds continued to tour in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In May 2015 Topham left the band and was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Earl_Slick" title="Earl Slick">Earl Slick</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although Slick never played a gig with the band. </p><p>In August 2015, it was announced they would play the Eel Pie Club in <a href="/wiki/Twickenham" title="Twickenham">Twickenham</a>, west London on 17 October with a line-up of Jim McCarty, John Idan, Ben King, David Smale, and Billyboy Miskimmin. On 12 August 2015, it was announced that <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>-based guitarist <a href="/wiki/Johnny_A." title="Johnny A.">Johnny A.</a><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> would become the newest member of the Yardbirds for their North American tour running from 30 October to 22 November 2015. Johnny A. continued to tour as the Yardbirds' lead guitarist throughout 2016, 2017, and 2018 performing a total of 110 shows before departing. Johnny A.'s last show with the Yardbirds was on 23 June 2018 at The Egyptian Theater, Park City, Utah. Former <a href="/wiki/Ram_Jam" title="Ram Jam">Ram Jam</a> harmonica player <a href="/wiki/Myke_Scavone" title="Myke Scavone">Myke Scavone</a> joined the band at the end of 2015. On 15 April 2016, the band played at the <i>Under the Bridge</i> venue in London with a line-up of Jim McCarty, John Idan, Johnny A, Kenny Aaronson, and Billyboy Miskimmin.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Musical_style">Musical style</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Yardbirds&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Musical style"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Along with <a href="/wiki/John_Mayall%27s_Bluesbreakers" class="mw-redirect" title="John Mayall's Bluesbreakers">John Mayall's Bluesbreakers</a>, the Yardbirds were part of the <a href="/wiki/British_blues" title="British blues">British blues</a> scene of the 1960s. As the <a href="/wiki/Blues_rock" title="Blues rock">blues rock</a> genre developed, some acts like <a href="/wiki/Chicken_Shack" title="Chicken Shack">Chicken Shack</a> were playing a louder and more aggressive style, while the Yardbirds emphasized instrumental textures and extended instrumental improvisations. They covered blues classics like <a href="/wiki/Howlin%27_Wolf" title="Howlin' Wolf">Howlin' Wolf</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Smokestack_Lightning" title="Smokestack Lightning">Smokestack Lightning</a>" (1956) and <a href="/wiki/Bo_Diddley" title="Bo Diddley">Bo Diddley</a>'s 1955 "<a href="/wiki/I%27m_a_Man_(Bo_Diddley_song)" title="I'm a Man (Bo Diddley song)">I'm a Man</a>" which had a repetitive structure where instrumental solos were brief breaks between repetition of verses. The Yardbirds often extended these instrumental sections into "heavy jams".<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Members">Members</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Yardbirds&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Members"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_the_Yardbirds_members" title="List of the Yardbirds members">List of the Yardbirds members</a></div> <p><b>Current members</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jim_McCarty" title="Jim McCarty">Jim McCarty</a> – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1963–1968, 1992–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Idan" title="John Idan">John Idan</a> – lead vocals (1995–2009, 2015–present), lead guitar (1992–1994), bass (1994–2009), rhythm guitar (2015–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenny_Aaronson" title="Kenny Aaronson">Kenny Aaronson</a> – bass (2015–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myke_Scavone" title="Myke Scavone">Myke Scavone</a> – harmonica, percussion, backing vocals (2015–present)</li> <li>Godfrey Townsend – lead guitar, backing vocals (2018–present)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Yardbirds&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Yardbirds_discography" title="The Yardbirds discography">The Yardbirds discography</a></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Five_Live_Yardbirds" title="Five Live Yardbirds">Five Live Yardbirds</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/For_Your_Love_(album)" title="For Your Love (album)">For Your Love</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Having_a_Rave_Up_with_the_Yardbirds" title="Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds">Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roger_the_Engineer" title="Roger the Engineer">Roger the Engineer</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Little_Games" title="Little Games">Little Games</a></i> (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Birdland_(The_Yardbirds_album)" title="Birdland (The Yardbirds album)">Birdland</a></i> (2003)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Yardbirds&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Freakbeat" title="Freakbeat">Freakbeat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swinging_London" class="mw-redirect" title="Swinging London">Swinging London</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Yardbirds&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Citations</b> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The following sources refer to the Yardbirds as blues rock: <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFKnowles2010" class="citation book cs1">Knowles, Christopher (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=TMHr1g7T8gQC&q=The+Yardbirds+blues+rock&pg=PT93"><i>The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll</i></a>. Viva Editions. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1573444057" title="Special:BookSources/978-1573444057"><bdi>978-1573444057</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Secret+History+of+Rock+%27n%27+Roll&rft.pub=Viva+Editions&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-1573444057&rft.aulast=Knowles&rft.aufirst=Christopher&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DTMHr1g7T8gQC%26q%3DThe%2BYardbirds%2Bblues%2Brock%26pg%3DPT93&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Yardbirds" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFTalevski1999" class="citation book cs1">Talevski, Nick (1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/tombstoneblues00nick/page/356"><i>The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries</i></a>. Omnibus Press. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/tombstoneblues00nick/page/356">356</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0711975484" title="Special:BookSources/978-0711975484"><bdi>978-0711975484</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Encyclopedia+of+Rock+Obituaries&rft.pages=356&rft.pub=Omnibus+Press&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=978-0711975484&rft.aulast=Talevski&rft.aufirst=Nick&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ftombstoneblues00nick%2Fpage%2F356&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Yardbirds" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFWitmer2009" class="citation book cs1">Witmer, Scott (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historyofrockban0000witm/page/18"><i>History of Rock Bands</i></a>. Abdo Publishing Company. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historyofrockban0000witm/page/18">18</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1604536928" title="Special:BookSources/978-1604536928"><bdi>978-1604536928</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=History+of+Rock+Bands&rft.pages=18&rft.pub=Abdo+Publishing+Company&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-1604536928&rft.aulast=Witmer&rft.aufirst=Scott&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fhistoryofrockban0000witm%2Fpage%2F18&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Yardbirds" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFWadhams2001" class="citation book cs1">Wadhams, Wayne (2001). <i>Inside the Hits: The Seduction of a Rock and Roll Generation (Pop Culture)</i>. Omnibus Press. p. 189. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0634014307" title="Special:BookSources/978-0634014307"><bdi>978-0634014307</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Inside+the+Hits%3A+The+Seduction+of+a+Rock+and+Roll+Generation+%28Pop+Culture%29&rft.pages=189&rft.pub=Omnibus+Press&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=978-0634014307&rft.aulast=Wadhams&rft.aufirst=Wayne&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Yardbirds" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </span></li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The following sources refer to the Yardbirds as psychedelic rock: <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFCochran2003" class="citation book cs1">Cochran, Bobby (2003). <i>The Eddie Cochran Story: Three Steps to Heaven</i>. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 43. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0634032523" title="Special:BookSources/978-0634032523"><bdi>978-0634032523</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Eddie+Cochran+Story%3A+Three+Steps+to+Heaven&rft.pages=43&rft.pub=Hal+Leonard+Corporation&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-0634032523&rft.aulast=Cochran&rft.aufirst=Bobby&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Yardbirds" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFCope2007" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Julian_Cope" title="Julian Cope">Cope, Julian</a> (2007). <i><a href="/wiki/Japrocksampler" title="Japrocksampler">Japrocksampler: How the Post-War Japanese Blew Their Minds on Rock 'n' Roll</a></i>. Bloomsbury UK. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0747589457" title="Special:BookSources/978-0747589457"><bdi>978-0747589457</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Japrocksampler%3A+How+the+Post-War+Japanese+Blew+Their+Minds+on+Rock+%27n%27+Roll&rft.pub=Bloomsbury+UK&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-0747589457&rft.aulast=Cope&rft.aufirst=Julian&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Yardbirds" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFFrank_Reddon2012" class="citation book cs1">Frank Reddon (10 July 2012). <i>Sonic Boom: The Impact of Led Zeppelin. - Break and Enter</i>. eBookIt.com. p. 17. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-9784446-5-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-9784446-5-5"><bdi>978-0-9784446-5-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Sonic+Boom%3A+The+Impact+of+Led+Zeppelin.+-+Break+and+Enter&rft.pages=17&rft.pub=eBookIt.com&rft.date=2012-07-10&rft.isbn=978-0-9784446-5-5&rft.au=Frank+Reddon&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Yardbirds" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFMichael_CampbellJames_Brody2007" class="citation book cs1">Michael Campbell; James Brody (27 February 2007). <i>Rock and Roll: An Introduction</i>. Cengage Learning. p. 206. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-111-79453-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-111-79453-8"><bdi>978-1-111-79453-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rock+and+Roll%3A+An+Introduction&rft.pages=206&rft.pub=Cengage+Learning&rft.date=2007-02-27&rft.isbn=978-1-111-79453-8&rft.au=Michael+Campbell&rft.au=James+Brody&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Yardbirds" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </span></li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The following sources refer to the Yardbirds as rhythm and blues: <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFDave_MarshJames_Bernard1994" class="citation book cs1">Dave Marsh; James Bernard (1 November 1994). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/newbookofrocklis00marsh"><i>New Book of Rock Lists</i></a></span>. Simon and Schuster. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/newbookofrocklis00marsh/page/282">282</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-671-78700-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-671-78700-4"><bdi>978-0-671-78700-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=New+Book+of+Rock+Lists&rft.pages=282&rft.pub=Simon+and+Schuster&rft.date=1994-11-01&rft.isbn=978-0-671-78700-4&rft.au=Dave+Marsh&rft.au=James+Bernard&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fnewbookofrocklis00marsh&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Yardbirds" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFPhil_Thompson2007" class="citation book cs1">Phil Thompson (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=VmjsAAAAMAAJ"><i>The Best of Cellars: The Story of the Cavern Club</i></a>. Tempus. p. 53. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7524-4202-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7524-4202-0"><bdi>978-0-7524-4202-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Best+of+Cellars%3A+The+Story+of+the+Cavern+Club&rft.pages=53&rft.pub=Tempus&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-0-7524-4202-0&rft.au=Phil+Thompson&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DVmjsAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Yardbirds" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFNigel_Williamson2007" class="citation book cs1">Nigel Williamson (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=AgE8AQAAIAAJ"><i>The Rough Guide to the Blues</i></a>. Rough Guides. p. 63. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84353-519-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84353-519-5"><bdi>978-1-84353-519-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Rough+Guide+to+the+Blues&rft.pages=63&rft.pub=Rough+Guides&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-1-84353-519-5&rft.au=Nigel+Williamson&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DAgE8AQAAIAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Yardbirds" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ci7aAAAAMAAJ"><i>The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul</i></a>. Virgin. 1998. p. 102. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7535-0241-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7535-0241-9"><bdi>978-0-7535-0241-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Virgin+Encyclopedia+of+R%26B+and+Soul&rft.pages=102&rft.pub=Virgin&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=978-0-7535-0241-9&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dci7aAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Yardbirds" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </span></li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFRamirez2012" class="citation web cs1">Ramirez, AJ (8 August 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.popmatters.com/161801-5-great-bands-spun-off-from-other-great-bands-2495826503.html">"5 Great Bands (Spun Off from Other Great Bands)"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/PopMatters" title="PopMatters">PopMatters</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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title="Roger the Engineer">Roger the Engineer</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Little_Games" title="Little Games">Little Games</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Birdland_(The_Yardbirds_album)" title="Birdland (The Yardbirds album)">Birdland</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Live albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Five_Live_Yardbirds" title="Five Live Yardbirds">Five Live Yardbirds</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sonny_Boy_Williamson_and_the_Yardbirds" title="Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds">Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_Yardbirds:_Featuring_Jimmy_Page" title="Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page">Live Yardbirds! 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Blueswailing July '64</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Anthologies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Yardbirds_Greatest_Hits" title="The Yardbirds Greatest Hits">The Yardbirds Greatest Hits</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shapes_of_Things_(album)" title="Shapes of Things (album)">Shapes of Things</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ultimate!" title="Ultimate!">Ultimate!</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Glimpses_1963%E2%80%931968" title="Glimpses 1963–1968">Glimpses 1963–1968</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yardbirds_%2768" title="Yardbirds '68">Yardbirds '68</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Soundtracks</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Blow-Up_(soundtrack)" title="Blow-Up (soundtrack)">Blow-Up – The Original Sound Track Album</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Bootlegs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Golden_Eggs" title="Golden Eggs">Golden Eggs</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/More_Golden_Eggs" title="More Golden Eggs">More Golden Eggs</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Singles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/I_Wish_You_Would_(Billy_Boy_Arnold_song)#The_Yardbirds_versions" title="I Wish You Would (Billy Boy Arnold song)">I Wish You Would</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Certain_Girl#The_Yardbirds_rendition" title="A Certain Girl">A Certain Girl</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Good_Morning,_School_Girl#Don_and_Bob/Yardbirds_version" title="Good Morning, School Girl">Good Morning Little Schoolgirl</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/For_Your_Love" title="For Your Love">For Your Love</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Heart_Full_of_Soul" title="Heart Full of Soul">Heart Full of Soul</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Evil_Hearted_You" title="Evil Hearted You">Evil Hearted You</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I%27m_a_Man_(Bo_Diddley_song)#The_Yardbirds_versions" title="I'm a Man (Bo Diddley song)">I'm a Man</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Shapes_of_Things" title="Shapes of Things">Shapes of Things</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Mister,_You%27re_a_Better_Man_Than_I" title="Mister, You're a Better Man Than I">You're a Better Man Than I</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Boom_Boom_(John_Lee_Hooker_song)" title="Boom Boom (John Lee Hooker song)">Boom Boom</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Over_Under_Sideways_Down" title="Over Under Sideways Down">Over Under Sideways Down</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Happenings_Ten_Years_Time_Ago" title="Happenings Ten Years Time Ago">Happenings Ten Years Time Ago</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Ha!_Ha!_Said_the_Clown#The_Yardbirds_version" title="Ha! Ha! Said the Clown">Ha Ha Said the Clown</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Ten_Little_Indians_(Harry_Nilsson_song)#The_Yardbirds'_adaptation" title="Ten Little Indians (Harry Nilsson song)">Ten Little Indians</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other songs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Let_It_Rock_(Chuck_Berry_song)" title="Let It Rock (Chuck Berry song)">Let It Rock</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Who_Do_You_Love%3F_(Bo_Diddley_song)" title="Who Do You Love? (Bo Diddley song)">Who Do You Love</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/You_Can%27t_Judge_a_Book_by_Looking_at_the_Cover" class="mw-redirect" title="You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover">You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Too_Much_Monkey_Business" title="Too Much Monkey Business">Too Much Monkey Business</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Smokestack_Lightning" title="Smokestack Lightning">Smokestack Lightning</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Five_Long_Years" title="Five Long Years">Five Long Years</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Sky_Is_Crying_(song)" title="The Sky Is Crying (song)">The Sky Is Crying</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hang_On_Sloopy" title="Hang On Sloopy">My Girl Sloopy</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Train_Kept_A-Rollin%27#The_Yardbirds_versions" title="Train Kept A-Rollin'">The Train Kept A-Rollin'</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Spoonful" title="Spoonful">Spoonful</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Stumble" title="The Stumble">The Stumble</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Dust_My_Broom" title="Dust My Broom">Dust My Blues</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/White_Summer" title="White Summer">White Summer</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Rollin%27_and_Tumblin%27" title="Rollin' and Tumblin'">Drinking Muddy Water</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Stealin%27" title="Stealin'">Stealing Stealing</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Most_Likely_You_Go_Your_Way_(And_I%27ll_Go_Mine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)">Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Dazed_and_Confused_(Jake_Holmes_song)" title="Dazed and Confused (Jake Holmes song)">Dazed and Confused</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tangerine_(Led_Zeppelin_song)" title="Tangerine (Led Zeppelin song)">Knowing That I'm Losing You</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I%27m_Waiting_for_the_Man" title="I'm Waiting for the Man">I'm Waiting for the Man</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Yardbirds_discography" title="The Yardbirds discography">Discography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_the_Yardbirds_members" title="List of the Yardbirds members">Members</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Mayall_%26_the_Bluesbreakers" title="John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers">John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cream_(band)" title="Cream (band)">Cream</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blind_Faith" title="Blind Faith">Blind Faith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derek_%26_the_Dominoes" class="mw-redirect" title="Derek & the Dominoes">Derek & the Dominoes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Beck_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Jeff Beck Group">Jeff Beck Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beck,_Bogert_%26_Appice" title="Beck, Bogert & Appice">Beck, Bogert & Appice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Led_Zeppelin" title="Led Zeppelin">Led Zeppelin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Honeydrippers" title="The Honeydrippers">The Honeydrippers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Firm_(rock_band)" title="The Firm (rock band)">The Firm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coverdale_-_Page" class="mw-redirect" title="Coverdale - Page">Coverdale - Page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Page_%26_Plant" class="mw-redirect" title="Page & Plant">Page & Plant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renaissance_(band)" title="Renaissance (band)">Renaissance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Box_of_Frogs" title="Box of Frogs">Box of Frogs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_–_Class_of_1992162" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:1992_Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Template:1992 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:1992_Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Template talk:1992 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:1992_Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Special:EditPage/Template:1992 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_–_Class_of_1992162" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame</a> – <a href="/wiki/List_of_Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_inductees" title="List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees">Class of 1992</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Performers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Bland" title="Bobby Bland">Bobby Bland</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Booker_T._%26_the_M.G.%27s" title="Booker T. & the M.G.'s">Booker T. & the M.G.'s</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Cropper" title="Steve Cropper">Steve Cropper</a>, <a href="/wiki/Donald_%22Duck%22_Dunn" title="Donald "Duck" Dunn">Donald "Duck" Dunn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Al_Jackson_Jr." title="Al Jackson Jr.">Al Jackson Jr.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Booker_T._Jones" title="Booker T. 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