The Yardbirds: The Blueswailers With The Mod Appeal
Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 30 May 1964
ALTHOUGH THE Sunday Telegraph insisted that the Yardbirds were called the Yardsticks, and also claimed they were public school boys it doesn't seem to have drastically affected the popularity of this unique group.
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