THE YARDBIRDS: Before There Was A Zeppelin

Probably no other band shaped rock ’n’ roll as-we-know-it in the way the Yardbirds did. The band’s contemporaries—and remember, in 1963, when the Yardbirds formed, “contemporaries” meant the likes of the Beatles, Stones, Who and Kinks—for the most part, they’ve all received the credit due them.