At 81, Jim McCarty loves playing the greatest hits of The Yardbirds, but he knows today’s fans also like to hear tales of the ...

The surviving members of Led Zeppelin went many different ways after their 1980 breakup. Here's where every member of the ...

The Yardbirds were in the market for songs, however, and they claimed “For Your Love” to record as a potential hit single. That’s just what it turned out to be.

The Yardbirds return to the US with a new show and tour featuring all the hits delivered by the legendary band led by founder ...

For a brief period in 1966, the Yardbirds had not only one of the most formidable electric guitar tandems of their day, but what to this day remains one of the most formidable two-guitar attacks ...

How Eric Clapton’s Split With Yardbirds Caused a Chain Reaction How Eric Clapton’s Split With Yardbirds Caused a Chain Reaction Guitarist sent heavy blues in a new ...

Jim McCarty on producing hits like Heart Full Of Soul, Shapes Of Things and Over Under Sideways Down - plus why their original guitarist, Top Topham, left the group.

On March 13, 1965, Eric Clapton made one of the most famous decisions in classic rock history: to leave The Yardbirds. He felt the group was leaving their blues roots behind. Clapton didn’t want ...

Ritchie Blackmore wades in on where Led Zeppelin's heavy metal sound came from. Jimmy Page boldly reinvented the blues in the ...

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