epilogue
Music & Literature
HUFFINGTON
09.23.12
Author Jim Shepard on
the Albums That Blew His Mind
The Yardbirds Featuring
MICHAEL LIONSTAR
Performances by Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page
My lifelong connection to the British Wave began when
I awoke one morning after a sleepout with a friend (we
were on the cement floor of my screened-in back porch)
to my older brother having cranked up The Kinks’ “You
Really Got Me” in his bedroom over my head. I was flattened by it, like so many other people were. It was 1964. I
was seven. The Kinks became my soundtrack for anarchic
release, as did The Dave Clark Five, with their cheerfully
unsubtle and headlong string of hits, as well as The Bea-