Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christopher Walenty “Chris” Dreja, April 1967 (Jorgen Angel/Redferns) Chris Dreja, the co-founding rhythm guitarist and later ...

Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith, Top Topham, Jim McCarty, and Chris Dreja are the founding members of the Yardbirds. After finding some early success, Topham did not fit the band as a guitarist. “A ...

The Yardbirds rocker Chris Dreja, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer who played with the group during its initial five-year run in the 1960s, and again when they reunited years later, has died. He was 79.

The Yardbirds launched the careers of guitar gods Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck before Page joined them as the bassist. (Beck gifted Page a guitar for turning down the Yardbirds and recommending him for ...

“It’s a shame the Yardbirds have no image,” opined Herman’s Hermits’ Peter Noone bluntly in 1966, “because they would be the Number One group in England.” It’s true that the Yardbirds—whose ...

At 81 years old, Jim McCarty, the drummer for The Yardbirds, will be incorporating storytelling into the band's upcoming tour. The Yardbirds are known for having three legendary guitarists in the band ...

Just as Bill Haley and Elvis Presley changed the landscape of popular music a decade earlier, The Yardbirds ushered in the psychedelic age of rock. Feedback had appeared on records, but Jeff Beck was ...

Jim McCarty never thought The Yardbirds were going to last. Sixty years later, fans still don’t want the encore to end. “It’s all like a bonus to me,” he said in a phone interview with The Daily ...

As advice to anyone building a collection of live recordings, one could scarcely go wrong with the acknowledged classics--sets by Otis Redding, the Who, the Stones' Get YerYa-Ya's Out! Combined with a ...