The Yardbirds 1963. Crawdaddy Club impresario Giorgio Gomelsky became the Yardbirds manager and first record producer. Under Gomelsky's guidance the Yardbirds toured Britain as the back-up band for blues legend Sonny Boy Williamson II in December 1963 and early 1964, recording live tracks on 8 December and other dates. The recordings would be released two years later during the height of the Yardbirds popularity on the album "Sonny Boy Williamson and The Yardbirds". After the tours with Williamson, the Yardbirds signed to EMI's Columbia label in February 1964, and recorded more live tracks March 20 at the legendary Marquee Club in London.
The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record conceived series of repackages after the band left Decca for Atlantic in 1970. The final section of the book includes a United States discography as well as a brief overview of bootleg Stones recordings released by that time. The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record is a 1976 book by music journalist Roy Carr, published by Harmony Books. The book contains an extensive discography of record releases by the Rolling Stones up to that time (the latest being "Black and Blue"), with critical reviews of each release by Carr. Sidebars give a concurrent history of