For Your Love' (The Yardbirds’ U.S. debut LP) turned 60 this year, so here are five great tracks from the band that should be ...

"It’s too simple to play because it’s based on a five-note scale, and I had come way past that," the guitarist says ...

By the time Cream came together in 1966, they weren’t forming just another British rock group; they were creating a blueprint ...

From his first days making crowds go wild with The Yardbirds and giving his great skill to John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Eric Clapton soon got tied to a bold, raw way that made the British blues ...

From starting as a busker on the streets of London with guitarist Wizz Jones in the early 1960s and rising to fame as the ...

Today in Music History for July 7: ...

If you want to see "Slowhand," you'll need fast hands to grab tickets to see Eric Clapton on Sept. 5 at Mershon Auditorium.

Their debut album, “Five Live Yardbirds,” recorded at the Marquee Club in 1964, would later be tagged by All Music Guide as “the best such live record of the entire middle of the decade.” ...

Before they were Led Zeppelin, they were The New Yardbirds - but things took a disastrous turn when a former bandmate threatened to sue, forcing the four musicians to think of a new name ...

The Yardbirds formed after McCarty graduated from high school, at a time when he also took a full-time job at a stockbroking firm in London. He worked a solid 9-to-5 during the day and played with ...

The Yardbirds were originally part of a wave of UK bands, with the Who, the Animals and the Rolling Stones, all enraptured with American blues. “It was all timing, really.

The Yardbirds will be appearing at City Winery in Boston on Wednesday, April 9, and then returning to the Narrows Center in Fall River on Thursday, April 10.