Just as Bill Haley and Elvis Presley changed the landscape of popular music a decade earlier, The Yardbirds ushered in the psychedelic age of rock. Feedback had appeared on records, but Jeff Beck was finding new ways of expressing himself in his guitar playing on some of the band’s biggest hits. “Shapes of Things” starts […]
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