• On this day
    1966
    The Yardbirds appeared on Top of the Pops

    I wore this jacket on Top of the Pops with the Yardbirds. It’s like an old school blazer except it doesn’t have the school badge on it, but it’s got all kinds of other badges relating to childhood, definitely ones from when I was a schoolboy in Epsom. The I-Spy Club. House captain, although I was never house captain. Girl Guides, wasn’t a Guide either. Military medals. I don’t think I was the only one wearing medals in those days. We had no right to wear them, of course.

    The Top of the Pops photographer, Harry Goodwin, would get people to do two shots. In one of them you’d be looking down, and in the other you’d be looking up. The one they chose to use for the chart countdown would depend on which direction your song was going. Quite cheeky, but fun. For ‘Happenings Ten Years Time Ago’, I guess we would have been looking pretty vacant, because it barely scraped into the charts.

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    Jimmy Page

    Jeff Beck

    Keith Relf

    Chris Dreja

    JIM McCARTY