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Birth name | James Stanley McCarty |
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Years active | 1960s–present |
Member of | The Yardbirds |
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James Stanley McCarty (born 25 July 1943) [1] is an English musician, best known as the drummer for the Yardbirds and Renaissance. [2] McCarty has performed and recorded as a drummer and occasional singer with the Yardbirds, Together, Renaissance, Shoot [3] , Illusion, Box of Frogs, the British Invasion All-Stars, and Pilgrim. He was also a keyboardist for Stairway and, under his own name, a guitarist in the Jim McCarty Band. [1] [4] [5] [6]
Since 1992 he has been playing with the reformed Yardbirds. [5] Following Chris Dreja's departure from the Yardbirds in 2013, McCarty became the only founding member to still tour in the band. [7] He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 as a member of the Yardbirds. [8] McCarty has released three solo albums : Out of the Dark (1994), Sitting on the Top of Time (2009), and Walking in the Wild Land (2018) as well as two books. [9] [10] [6]
McCarty has contributed to four Yardbird books: Yardbirds (1983. ISBN 0-283-98982-3 ) / Yardbirds : The Ultimate Rave-Up (1997. ISBN 0-9648157-8-8 ) / The Yardbirds (2002. ISBN 0-87930-724-2 ) / Nobody Told Me: My Life with the Yardbirds, Renaissance and Other Stories (2018. ISBN 0244966508). [5] [9]
James Stanley McCarty was born at Walton Hospital in Liverpool, England, [1] but his family moved to Teddington, London when he was two years old. [11] He attended Hampton School in Hampton where Paul Samwell-Smith was a fellow pupil. The first record McCarty bought was either "Bad Penny Blues" by Humphrey Lyttelton or "Born Too Late" by The Poni-Tails. [5]
When playing with the early Yardbirds, he worked as a clerk for the stockbroking firm Phillips & Drew in the City of London. [12] [13] [14] McCarty admited that addiction to LSD in the 1960s negatively affected his mental health. [5] McCarty's wife, Elisabeth, died from cancer on 7 June 2020, [15] which got McCarty interested in Mediumship. [16] [17] McCarty released a book, She Walks In Beauty, which his wife suggested him to do just before her death. [18] [19] [17]
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