The Yardbirds and screaming girls singing their biggest hit, For Your Love in 1965 with singer Keith Relf looking very cool and ahead of his time. The song was written by Graham Gouldman, later bassist with 10cc. Gouldman also wrote sixties classic, No Milk Today For Herman’s Hermits and Look Through Any Window and Bus […]
In 1967 as that era’s hipsters were growing their hair, many acts striving to be part of the or any musical revolution of the day fell into line. It might not be fair to call Jake Holmes conservative and less kind to call him opportunistic but his journey to this point wasn’t what you would […]
When bass player Paul Samwell-Smith left The Yardbirds in 1966 to concentrate on producing other bands, he was replaced by Jimmy Page as Jeff Beck had already replaced Eric Clapton on guitar. Although Page joined as the bass player with Chris Dreja as the rhythm guitarist, Dreja eventually moved to bass allowing Beck and Page […]