Yardbirds (album)
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| Studio album by The Yardbirds | ||||
| Released | 15 July 1966 | |||
| Recorded | April – June 1966 at Advision Studios, London | |||
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| Length | 35:52 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Simon Napier-Bell | |||
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Roger the Engineer (UK title: Yardbirds, but commonly referred to as "Roger the Engineer". US, German and French title: Over Under Sideways Down) is an album by English blues rock band The Yardbirds, released in 1966. It was produced by bassist Paul Samwell-Smith and Simon Napier-Bell. It was the only Yardbirds album with all original material. Although the record was officially titled Yardbirds (and still is in authoritative chart sources, such as The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums), it has since been referred to, first colloquially, then semi-officially, as Roger the Engineer, a title stemming from the cover drawing of the record's audio engineer Roger Cameron by band member Chris Dreja.
The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
In 2012, the album was ranked No. 350 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The album was recorded at Advision Studios in London in the spring and summer of 1966, and was produced by Paul Samwell-Smith and Simon Napier-Bell. It was released by Columbia on 15 July 1966.
In 2003, the album was ranked No. 349 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine in a retrospective AllMusic review considers the album to be "the Yardbirds' best individual studio album, offering some of their very best psychedelia", though not "among the great albums of its era".
All songs written by Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, Jeff Beck, Keith Relf, and Paul Samwell-Smith (Dreja and McCarty's last names are misspelled as "Drega" and "McCarthy" on the labels of the US album). All songs are recorded in stereo, except where noted.
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