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Founding Yardbirds guitarist Chris Dreja dead at 79

Chris Dreja played in The Yardbirds alongside Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page

Annie Haslam to team up with Renaissance founder Jim McCarty for US live shows

Annie Haslam to team up with Renaissance founder Jim McCarty for US live shows

Annie Haslam and JimMcCarty will present The History Of Renaissance live shows in the US in November

"I remember Jimmy yelling at us and calling us hooligans": Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, Jeff Beck and the chaotic session that sowed the seeds for Led Zeppelin

"I remember Jimmy yelling at us and calling us hooligans": Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, Jeff Beck and the chaotic session that sowed the seeds for Led Zeppelin

In a small London studio, two Yardbirds, one member of The Who and a pair of passing session maestros united to record a spontaneous instrumental track. Things would never be the same again.

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The laziest bands in the history of rock: 10 follow-up albums that took decades to appear

Think waiting 53 years for a new MC5 album is a chore? They're merely the latest in a long line of slow-working, deadline-averse dawdlers

"I was very green and it was a tentative start, but we knew we had something":The complicated birth of Led Zeppelin

How the most creatively fertile era in the history of British Music produced the most important hard rock band of all time, Led Zeppelin

"A load of big names kicked us off tours. We frightened them": Cactus should have been huge but it never happened - so we asked them to tell us why

Born out of hard rock pioneers Vanilla Fudge and contemporaries of Led Zeppelin, Cactus are the unsung innovators of 70s US rock

“Beck, Clapton and Page are okay. But they’re no better than Jim McCarty from Cactus and Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels”: Ted Nugent weighs in on top guitarist lists and the unsung heroes who deserve more recognition

Ted Nugent names the guitarists he thinks deserve to be championed as much as Beck, Clapton and Page

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"There's nothing wrong with the Cactus debut - it's just that so many other albums circa 1970 did the same things better": Cactus's first album showed they had the chops but not the songs

"There's nothing wrong with the Cactus debut - it's just that so many other albums circa 1970 did the same things better": Cactus's first album showed they had the chops but not the songs

What do you get if you mix men from Vanilla Fudge, Amboy Dukes and Mitch Ryder’s Detroit Wheels? The first album from Cactus

“I knew exactly what I wanted to do in every respect”: How Jimmy Page built Led Zeppelin from the ashes of the Yardbirds

“I knew exactly what I wanted to do in every respect”: How Jimmy Page built Led Zeppelin from the ashes of the Yardbirds

Using knowledge gleaned from his time as a first-call session pro – and his brief but crucial tenure alongside Jeff Beck in the Yardbirds – Page formed a rock colossus from the ground up

Early Renaissance five disc box set to be released in April

Early Renaissance five disc box set to be released in April

Live At The Fillmore West And Other Adventures will be released as a five disc set on April 28

"We got into a big fight with Black Sabbath over a bag of pot": Drugs, death and rock'n'roll - the debauched story of Cactus

"We got into a big fight with Black Sabbath over a bag of pot": Drugs, death and rock'n'roll - the debauched story of Cactus

When Vanilla Fudge split in 1969, Cactus emerged from the meltdown. When they weren’t in jail they were partying. When they weren’t naked they were taking drugs

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