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Chris Dreja
Chris Dreja
British rock musician
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Top Topham
Top Topham
British musician
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Paul Samwell-Smith
Paul Samwell-Smith
British record producer, songwriter
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Box of Frogs
Box of Frogs
band
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Keith Relf
Keith Relf
English pop musician, singer for the Yardbirds (1943–1976)
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John Hawken
John Hawken
British musician
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Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck
English rock guitarist
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Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page
Guitarist for Led Zeppelin
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Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
English rock band
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Jim McCarty
Jim McCarty
British musician, drummer, songwriter
10
Renaissance
Renaissance
band
11
The Jeff Beck Group
The Jeff Beck Group
band
12
Steamhammer
Steamhammer
English blues-rock band
13
Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton
English musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
14
John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones
English multi-instrumentalist, producer, bassist of Led Zeppelin
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Cactus
Cactus
American hard rock band
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John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
English blues band
17
The Honeydrippers
The Honeydrippers
British rock band
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Cream
Cream
1960s British rock supergroup
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Tim Bogert
Tim Bogert
American musician
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Johnny A.
Johnny A.
American guitarist and songwriter
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Buddy Guy
Buddy Guy
American blues guitarist and singer
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John Mayall
John Mayall
English blues musician
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Robert Plant
Robert Plant
English singer
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The Pretty Things
The Pretty Things
English band
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Armageddon
Armageddon
hard rock band formed in 1974
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The Firm
The Firm
British rock supergroup
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Micky Waller
Micky Waller
British musician
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Freddie King
Freddie King
American blues guitarist and singer
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Bobby Tench
Bobby Tench
British vocalist and guitarist
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John Weider
John Weider
British musician
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Alexis Korner
Alexis Korner
British blues musician and radio broadcaster
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The Other Half
The Other Half
musical artist
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Jimmy Reed
Jimmy Reed
American blues musician and songwriter
Members, past and present

The Yardbirds are an English rock band, formed in London in 1963. The band's core lineup featured vocalist and harmonica player Keith Relf, drummer Jim McCarty, rhythm guitarist/bassist Chris Dreja and bassist/producer Paul Samwell-Smith. The band is known for starting the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, all of whom ranked in the top five of Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 greatest guitarists. The band had a string of hits throughout the mid-1960s, including "For Your Love", "Heart Full of Soul", "Shapes of Things", and "Over Under Sideways Down".

Originally a blues-based band noted for their signature "rave-up" instrumental breaks, the Yardbirds broadened their range into pop, pioneering psychedelic rock and early hard rock; and contributed to many electric guitar innovations of the mid-1960s. Some rock critics and historians also cite their influence on the later punk rock, progressive rock, and heavy metal trends. Following the band's split in 1968, Relf and McCarty formed Renaissance and guitarist Jimmy Page formed Led Zeppelin - the latter of which was initially intended as a direct successor to the Yardbirds.

The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. They were included at number 89 in Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time", and ranked number 37 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock.

The Yardbirds reformed in the 1990s, featuring drummer Jim McCarty and rhythm guitarist/bassist Chris Dreja as the only original members of the band. Dreja left the band in 2012, leaving McCarty as the sole original member of the band present in the lineup.