The Yardbirds: Yardbirds Don't Like Own Hits
Keith Altham, NME, 5 June 1965
IN THE middle of a field in Windsor sat Yardbirds' vocalist Keith Relf dressed as an Elizabethan page with plumed hat and a huge silk ruff around his neck. The rest of the group were wearing suits of armour and medieval costumes.
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