London summer of 1962. The city lived the moments of maximum splendor with blues and R&B as a soundtrack. Swinging London in Carnaby St, the Marquee, the Ealing Club, The Crawdaddy, all of them packed with people, sweating and drinking while on the small stages John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated or Ciryl Davies made plans for the future . The so-called British "Blues Boom" was underway. One of the first bands to emerge in the shadow of the pioneers were The Yardbirds, band formed in 1963 by singer and harmonica player Keith Relf and guitarist Chris Dreja along with bassist Paul Samwell-Smith and drummer Jim McCarty. That same year they were joined by a little known and still beardless Eric Clapton. who left them a year and a half later to join the Bluesbreakers in early 1965. Clapton recorded a single studio album with The Yardbirs. His place in the band was taken by an also unknown Jeff Beck, who gave the group a new sound. and a new dynamic of playing the blues. Beck, who had been introduced to the blues by pianist Ian Stewart, was in The Yardbirds for a year and eight months and it was the period of explosion and most popularity of the band.