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Having a Rave Up is The Yardbirds’ second US album, arriving after For Your Love, which had been released earlier in 1965. Aside from a greatest-hits collection, it became the band’s highest-charting American LP, spending 33 weeks on the Billboard chart. The “rave-up” in the title refers to the group’s trademark technique of extending songs with instrumental passages that intensify toward a climactic peak—an approach they perfected in their live performances.
The record includes 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 showcasing Jeff Beck, who stepped in for Eric Clapton in March 1965. Side B reprises four live tracks (with Clapton) originally issued on the band’s debut 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
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