his parents until he was nine. He started playing guitar at the age of 13 and in 1963, after playing in a couple of South-London bands, joined The Yardbirds, establishing his reputation on the rough and ready Five Live Yardbirds (1964). He quit The Yardbirds in 1965 after recording their first hit, ‘For Your Love’, and joined ...
I just can’t do it every night.’ But despite these idiosyncrasies, he is widely acclaimed as a genius. These virtuoso qualities became apparent soon after he joined the Yardbirds in 1965 as a 20-year-old unknown to replace Eric Clapton. His vibrant, fearless playing – using distortion, bottleneck and Indian influences – was a major element of the ...
The last of the triumvirate of guitar legends who played with The Yardbirds, Jimmy Page became an icon of rock guitarists in the 1970s with Led Zeppelin. Elements of his playing style have been copied to the point of cliché in the years since Led Zeppelin dominated the rock world, but as the originator, Page developed the heavy-metal ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1963–68) The Chicago blues-inspired Yardbirds, featuring Keith Relf (vocals, harmonica), Eric Clapton and Chris Dreja (guitars), Paul Samwell-Smith (bass) and Jim McCarty (drums), took over the Rolling Stones’ residency at London’s Crawdaddy Club and backed Sonny Boy Williamson II on tour in 1963. Clapton left after the release of their debut album in 1963 and was ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1963–68, 1992–present) The nurtured prowess of successive lead guitarists Eric Clapton (until 1965), Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page helped make The Yardbirds one of the most innovative rock groups of the 1960s. More discreetly influential, however, were more permanent members: Keith Relf (vocals, harmonica), Chris Dreja (rhythm guitar), Paul Samwell-Smith (bass) and Jim McCarty ...
John Lennon and his fellow Beatles led the way among the handful of artists who made a successful transition from pop to rock. These included The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds and The Who, who had already started out with a more aggressive rock sensibility. Add to them former folkies such as Bob Dylan and The Byrds, as well ...
, vocals, b. 1945) Once lead guitarist with Bournemouth’s Tony Blackburn and The Rovers, Stewart’s commercial discography as a solo artist commenced with a 1966 Xerox of a Yardbirds LP track, ‘Turn Into Earth’. Very bound up in himself lyrically, he impinged on national consciousness via mild media uproar over his insertion of a rude word in ...
When the great Mississippi musician Riley King left the cotton fields to seek his fortune in Memphis in 1946, he had $2.50 in his pocket and a battered guitar in his hand. Today, his name is synonymous with blues music itself, yet his ascendance to the zenith of the blues world never altered his friendly, downhome ...
group could have foreseen the results when its members first got together in 1966. Straight Blues And Jazz-Based R&B Eric Clapton had been a member of the pre-fame, R&B/blues-based Yardbirds, quitting in early 1965 due to his dissatisfaction with the more commercial, pop-oriented direction that the band was taking with tracks such as ‘For Your Love’, and thereafter ...
Essential Recordings 1957 Dale Hawkins: ‘Susie Q’ 1961 Ricky Nelson: ‘Hello Mary Lou’ 1977 Elvis Presley: Moody Blue 1977 John Denver: I Want To Live Personalities | Eric Clapton | Yardbirds to Legend | Guitar Heroes ...
(Guitar, vocals, b. 1944) Regarded as one of Britain’s finest rock guitarists, Beck left The Yardbirds in 1968 to form The Jeff Beck Group, initially featuring Rod Stewart on vocals. The band’s second incarnation made two ground-breaking albums that mixed rock and pop with jazz and R&B. In 1972, the guitarist became part of the short-lived ...
often recorded under pseudonyms like Delta John, Birmingham Sam and Little Pork Chops. Hooker’s mournful voice and droning guitar had an enormous influence on British rock bands like The Yardbirds and The Animals, who covered his ‘Boom Boom’ in 1964. Hooker continued label-hopping through the 1960s and had a major success with 1970’s Hooker ‘n’ Heat, teaming with ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1968–80) In 1968, after all the original members had left the Yardbirds, guitarist Jimmy Page had custody of the band’s name and contracts. John Paul Jones, who had produced some of Page’s side work, joined on bass, and Page hired singer Robert Plant away from Hobbstweedle. Drummer John Bonham, a friend of ...
1948). Beginning Of A Legend A versatile guitarist, Page was an in-demand session player in the mid-1960s and appeared on countless records and hits. In 1966 he joined The Yardbirds, playing alongside Jeff Beck and taking over when he left in 1967. By early 1968 the band was in decline and Page began planning a new group helped by ...
guitarist Richie Sambora. Essential Recordings 2005 Solo: Violet Journey 2009 Solo: Believe 2010 Michael Jackson feat. 50 Cent: ‘Monster’ 2013 Solo: Heaven In This Hell Personalities | Jimmy Page | Yardbirds to Led Zeppelin | Guitar Heroes ...
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