THE YARDBIRDS The Band That Launched Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck & Jimmy Page (2002 UK 208-page softback book, The Yardbirds came from privileged, middle-class England, embraced the soulful music of the USA's African American South, & helped re-import it back into the States as the embryo of heavy metal music, in the process the band produced 3 of the world's greatest guitar heroes: Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page & Jeff Beck, sensitively written with evocative photographs fromthe era, The Yardbirds offers an essential piece of the late-20th century pop jigsaw puzzle, illustrated throughout)