Live At The BBC (1965-68)

2LPs: MASTERED AT ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS, ALL TRACKS MONO. INCLUDES DAZED AND CONFUSED & WHITE SUMMER, BROADCAST BY JOHN PEEL IN 1968. RESTORED AND REMASTERED TRACKS FROM THE 1965-68 ERA – WITH JEFF BECK AND JIMMY PAGE IN THE VARIOUS YARDBIRDS LINE-UPS. RARE BBC ARCHIVE RECORDINGS. TRACK SELECTION AND INTRODUCTION BY YARDBIRD JIM MCCARTY WITH QUOTES FROM PAUL SAMWELL-SMITH IN THE AUTHORITATIVE SLEEVE NOTES. A selection of the Yardbirds BBC key ‘live’ recordings, assembled with the assistance of the BBC, with several tracks now all together the first time on this newly restored and remastered 2LP set. Many tracks have been expertly repaired from rare, hard-to-find and archive sources and now feature for the first time on these best available recordings in LP format. Sourced from the BBC, this double LP covers numerous songs - including smash hits such as ‘For Your Love’, ‘Heart Full Of Soul’ and Yardbirds classic stage favourites ‘Too Much Monkey Business’, ‘Smokestack Lightning’, ‘I’m A Man’ and ‘Train Kept A-Rollin’’. Guitar legends Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page feature alongside front man Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith and Jim McCarty in these sessions, recorded by the world renowned broadcasting organisation for radio transmission and our LPs feature a selection of the best available Yardbirds’ BBC Radio One output from 1965-1968. Authoritative sleeve notes contain new quotes from Yardbirds’ Jim McCarty and Paul Samwell-Smith. McCarty also adds his exclusive personal introduction for this set, looking back at those BBC years.