Peter Green (1946 - 2020), real name Peter Allen Greenbaum, never played with The Yardbirds. He was a co-founder of the band Fleetwood Mac in 1967. He did succeed Eric Clapton in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, where he played with fellow Fleetwood Mac founders, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie.

The Yardbirds were an English rock band, formed in London in 1963. The band's core line-up featured vocalist and harmonica player Keith Relf, drummer Jim McCarty, rhythm guitarist/bassist Chris Dreja and bassist/producer Paul Samwell-Smith. The band is known for featuring three of rock's most famous guitarists, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, all of whom ranked in the top five of Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 greatest guitarists. The band had a string of hits throughout the mid-1960s, including "For Your Love", "Heart Full of Soul", "Shapes of Things", and "Over Under Sideways Down". The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. They were ranked number 89 in Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time", and ranked number 37 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock.

In 1968 all members of the Yardbirds, other than Page, had left and after a brief stint as the New Yardbirds Page renamed the band Led Zeppelin.

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