Yardbirds The Most Blueswailing Futuristic Way-Out Heavy Beat Sound

One of the "Most Exciting Rock Books Released in 2025" at Ultimate Classic Rock - "Stanfield makes one want to step back in time into one of those packed clubs, so hot that, as one writer of the day put it, 'you could have boiled an egg.'"--Wesley Stace, The Wall Street Journal The story of an iconic group, the advent of pop, and the birth of rock music in 1960s Britain. The Yardbirds were trailblazers in the rapid development of pop music in Britain between 1963 and 1968. With members including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page, they helped to set the basic template of what has been known ever since as rock music and gave rise to one of the most commercially successful bands of all time: Led Zeppelin. Peter Stanfield situates the band in the rise of British R&B and the tumult of the psychedelic era. Obsessively detailed about both the band and 1960s pop culture, this is the book fans of the Yardbirds have always needed.

About the author

Peter Stanfield is Emeritus Professor of Film at the University of Kent. His publications include A Band with Built-In Hate: The Who from Pop Art to Punk and Pin-Ups 1972: Third Generation Rock ’n’ Roll, both published by Reaktion Books.

Summary

Shows how British pop trailblazers The Yardbirds helped to shape rock music.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Stanfield, Stanfield Peter
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.02.2025
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781836390770
• ISBN: 978-1-83639-077-0
• Pages: 432
• Subjects: Rolling Stones, Andy Warhol, R&B, Rock, Beatles, David Bowie, Velvet Underground, Rhythm and Blues, R’n’B, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, History: specific events & topics, Rock & Pop music, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, HISTORY / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Cream, rock music, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, jimmy page, United Kingdom, Great Britain, History of Music, Chuck Berry, Popular Music, Marc Bolan, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Soul & R 'n B, Soul & R 'n' B, John Mayall, 1960s, The Kinks, Jeff Beck, Captain Beefheart, Pretty Things, Mickie Most, Paul Samwell-Smith, Ready Steady Go!, Girogio Gomelsky, Keith Relf, Manfred Mann, The Move, Sonny Boy Williamson, Georgie Fame, Alex Harvey, Jim McCarty, 13th Floor Elevators, Chris Dreja, Crawdaddy, dazed and confused, Small Faces, Marquee