“On a summer’s day in 1964, the soon-to-become highly influential English band, The Yardbirds—Eric Clapton (on lead guitar), Keith Reif (vocals/harmonica), Chris Dreja (rhythm guitar), Paul Samwell-Smith (bass) and Jim McCarty (on drums)—travelled to the Quay Street, Manchester studios of Granada Television to record their fifth TV appearance…’In those days,’ [Reif] remarked to an American reporter, ‘you were told, no instructed, you had to turn-up and mime to a pre-recorded track, but we said no. We stood our ground, we weren’t going to do that. We were a live band, a good one at that, and we weren’t going to just stand and lip-sync our songs. We either sang live or we wouldn’t perform at all” (Keith Badman, Record Collector, 2017).
The Yardbirds “I Wish You Would”
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