Start here: Dazed and Confused by Jake Holmes.
Pretty good.
Dangerous Minds pulls out the story of D&C from the wonderfully titled piece The Thieving Magpies. Something with that title is not, as you can imagine, flattering. It makes all sorts of accusations of music being lifted wholesale, transformed a bit, and reattributed. Hmmm.
Grinwout followed The Yardbirds back in the day, but never with what might have been the necessary commitment. I mean, a group that included Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page has to be thought of as, shall we say, seminal. As for Page, before being a Yardbird, he did studio work: "some musicologists have estimated that he appeared on 60% of everything recorded in England between 1963 and 1966." Then there was the question of who, exactly, were the Yardbirds, as in who owned that name. And there was a potential other group including Keith Moon and John Entwistle. And the song D&C in various incarnations.
The story starts here, and you can find all the links out from there to "Magpie." Fans of classic rock have to read this.
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