Yardbirds, The - Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds [140G/ UK Import]

140g black vinyl in gloss laminate sleeve - Includes three Top 10 singles

Featuring lead guitarists Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. 

Having a Rave Up is the second US album by The Yardbirds, following For Your Love which was released earlier in the year, August 1965. Apart from a Greatest Hits compilation, Having A Rave Up was the bands highest charting American album and spent 33 weeks in the Billboard charts.

The "rave-up", referenced in the title, is the art of stretching a song with instrumental interludes building to a climax and was pioneered by the band in their live shows. The album features three Top 10 singles, 'Evil Hearted You' (#3 UK), 'Heart Full Of Soul' (#9 US / #2 UK) and 'Still I'm Sad' (#3 UK) all featuring Jeff Beck, who replaced Eric Clapton in March '65.

The B-side of the LP recycles four live recordings (featuring Clapton) from the band's debut album Five Live Yardbirds (also available from Charly). "Freed from Eric Clapton's blues purism and spurred by Jeff Beck's reckless exhibitionism, the Yardbirds launched a noisy rock & roll avant-garde. This is the bridge between beat groups and psychedelia." - Rolling Stone magazine

A1 You're a Better Man Than I
A2 Evil Hearted You
A3 I'm a Man
A4 Still I'm Sad
A5 Heart Full of Soul
A6 The Train Kept A-Rollin'

Live at the Marquee Club, 1964
B1 Smokestack Lightning
B2 Respectable
B3 I'm a Man
B4 Here 'Tis