In the beginning, three of rock’s greatest guitarist all lived within a 12-mile radius. What’s more, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck were friends as they came of age in the same general area ...

The Yardbirds -- featuring original members Jim McCarty (drums) and Chris Dreja (bass) recently completed a new album, "Birdland," featuring an extraordinary cast of guest guitarists. That Brian May… ...

Rhino’s Greatest Hits Vol 1 (1964-66) featured liner notes by US music freelancer Parke Puterbaugh who positioned The Yardbirds alongside groups like The Animals and The Rolling Stones, "creating hard ...

Rhino is celebrating the career of the Yardbirds, the British guitar rock group that gave rise to the careers of Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page. The two-disc "The Yardbirds: Ultimate!," due… ...

So said Record Mirror’s Norman Jopling in May 1963 of the band which soon added a “g” to become The Rolling Stones. He went on to point out that “the number of R&B clubs that have [recently] sprung up ...

Three-fifths of The Pretty Things shake their stuff on stage in 1964. Left to right: John Stax, Dick Taylor, Phil May In his month-by-month round-up of the records issued over the year, just one ...