Book cover for Yardbirds: Every Album, Every Song by Andrew Darlington

Yardbirds

Every Album, Every Song

2026 Released
160 Pages
2-3 Hours
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Sonicbond PublishingISBN 9781789523621

The neglected psychedelic classics 'Happenings Ten Years Time Ago' and 'Mister, You're A Better Man Than I'carried their legacy over into the punk era. Their cult albums, Five Live Yardbirds, Roger The Engineer and Little Games, remain highly esteemed and collectable decades later, while their sequence in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up movie catches the sixties at its most swingingly iconic. Classic rock seldom came as classic as it does with The Yardbirds, and now considered stars of heritage Rock, this book exhaustively traces the full Yardbirds story track-by-track from first to last, then picks up the narrative as former members become Led Zeppelin, Renaissance, Box of Frogs and the later Yardbirds reunion.

Andrew Darlington

Ensorcelled by the mystical vinyl codex 'a-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bam-boom' at age 8, Andrew Darlington embarked on a lifetime's quest to decipher the magical incantation's profundity, traipsing in not entirely straight lines of zigzag wandering across decades of enchantment. As part of UV Pop, Andrew's own lyrics can be found on the CD See You Later, Cowboy, and a collection of his popular The Eternal Assassin Chronicles have been published by Tule Fog Press (2025). There's also his history of The Yardbirds (2025) published by SonicBond Press, following his books on the Hollies, the Human League and the Small Faces.

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