NEW * Happenings Ten Years Time Ago - The Yardbirds {Stereo} 1966

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1966......#30 U.S. Billboard Hot 100, #43 UK Singles Chart
Original video edited and remastered with HQ stereo sound.
"Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" is a song by the English group the Yardbirds. Written and recorded in 1966, it is considered one of their most progressive works. The song was the group's first to feature the dual-lead guitar line-up of Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. The two contribute an array of guitar parts during the instrumental sections, described as "a full-on six-string apocalypse". Lyrically, it deals with notions of past life and déjà vu.
The song was released as a single to mixed reviews and was less successful on the record charts than the group's previous efforts. More recently, it has been acknowledged for its inventiveness and contribution to the early development of psychedelic music. Several elements have influenced songs by other musicians.
In the UK, "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" was released as a single by the Columbia Graphophone Company on 21 October 1966. "Psycho Daisies", a new song recorded during the same sessions, was used for the B-side. It is based on the 1959 Eddie Cochran song "Somethin' Else" and Beck provides the guitar and vocal, with Page on bass, and McCarty on drums. The single peaked at No. 43 during a five week appearance on the Record Retailer singles chart. On 4 November, Epic Records issued the single in the US, which was coupled with another vocal by Beck, "The Nazz Are Blue", taken from the Yardbirds' 1966 self-titled album (also known as Roger the Engineer (UK) and Over Under Sideways Down (US)). There, it was more successful, reaching No. 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, during a stay of nine weeks. In Canada, the single reached No. 45.
The song made its first album appearance in April 1967 on the Epic anthology The Yardbirds Greatest Hits. It was followed in October by the Capitol Canada compilation, The Hits of the Yardbirds, which also includes the song. Because of cross licensing problems, most subsequent anthologies and retrospective Yardbirds albums are limited to pre-Roger the Engineer/Over Under Sideways Down recordings (before April 1966). However, it is included on the 1983 Epic expanded reissue of the 1966 UK album Yardbirds (Roger the Engineer); Beckology, the 1991 Epic/Legacy boxed set featuring Jeff Beck; and Ultimate!, the 2001 comprehensive Yardbirds retrospective by Rhino Entertainment.