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The Yardbirds: Well, they've got a bearded Russian manager!

Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 23 May 1964

THERE ARE five Yardbirds and they have two interesting properties. The first is a Russian manager with a beard, dark glasses and a Lancia in which he claims to reach Switzerland in fifteen hours flat. The second is shoes.

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