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The Yardbirds: The Band That Launched Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page
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The Yardbirds: The Band That Launched Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page Paperback - 2002

by Alan Clayson

Lasting just five years, the original Yardbirds had a tremendous impact on 1960s music and culture in America and England. Featuring 100 evocative photos in color and b&w, this biography explores those years and also the post-Yardbirds careers of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page, plus today's Yardbirds incarnation led by original drummer Jim McCarty.


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Although together for only five years, The Yardbirds exerted tremendous influence on the music and style of the '60s and for decades beyond. Their impact has been felt throughout the rock genre, from psychedelia to blues-rock, heavy metal, and the music of today's jam bands. The Yardbirds came from middle-class England, embraced the soulful music of the African-American South, and helped re-import it back into the States as the embryo of heavy metal music. In the process, the band produced three guitar greats: Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck. Every fan of The Yardbirds, or of '60s-derived music in general, will revel in this book (which includes more than 50 photos from the group's heyday, plus a detailed diary of every gig, recording and broadcast they did) and enjoy reading the stories - old and new - as much as Clayson enjoys telling them.

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For the Tibetan monk out there who's never heard of The Yardbirds, I ought to recount the old, old story for the trillionth time...

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  • Title The Yardbirds: The Band That Launched Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page
  • Author Alan Clayson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 206
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Backbeat Books, San Francisco
  • Date 2002-09-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780879307240 / 0879307242
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.6 in (23.37 x 19.05 x 1.52 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Rock musicians - England, Yardbirds (Musical group)
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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