For Your Love - wikipedia For Your Love This article is about the Yardbirds song. For the Yardbirds album, see For Your Love ( album ). For other uses, see For Your Love ( disambiguation ). `` For Your Love '' Single by the Yardbirds B - side `` Got to Hurry '' Released 5 March 1965 ( 1965 - 03 - 05 ) ( UK ) 9 April 1965 ( US ) Format 7 - inch 45 rpm record Recorded 1 February 1965 Studio IBC, London Genre Pop rock Length 2 : 38 Label Columbia ( UK no. DB - 7499 ) Epic ( US no. 5 - 9790 ) Songwriter ( s ) Graham Gouldman Producer ( s ) Giorgio Gomelsky The Yardbirds UK singles chronology `` Good Morning Little Schoolgirl '' ( 1964 ) `` For Your Love '' ( 1965 ) `` Heart Full of Soul '' ( 1965 ) The Yardbirds US singles chronology `` I Wish You Would '' ( 1964 ) `` For Your Love '' ( 1965 ) `` Heart Full of Soul '' ( 1965 ) `` For Your Love '' is a rock song written by Graham Gouldman and recorded by English group the Yardbirds. Released in March 1965, it was their first top ten hit in both the UK and the US. The song was a departure from the group 's blues roots in favour of a commercial pop rock sound. Guitarist Eric Clapton disapproved of the change and it influenced him to leave the group. Contents 1 Background 2 Recording and releases 3 Chart performance 4 References Background Gouldman wrote the song at the age of 19 while working by day in a gentlemen 's outfitters near Salford Docks and playing by night with the semi-professional Manchester band the Mockingbirds. He explained : `` I was sleeping most of the time because I 'd been gigging with the Mockingbirds the night before, and then during the day when I 'd got any spare time I 'd write in the shop. I used to shut up the shop at lunch time and sit in the back writing. '' Gouldman cited the Beatles as his influence, `` We went down to Denmark Street and went round all the publishers trying to find a song... we did n't get any songs that we liked or we were n't given any songs period and the Beatles had started and I thought ' well, I 'm gon na really have a crack at song - writing. ' I had dabbled a bit, but they were really my inspiration and gave me and I think a lot of other people the courage to actually do it. We all wanted to be like the Beatles. I wrote two songs and the record company we were with turned down one of the songs. The song they turned down was ' For Your Love ', which eventually found its way to the Yardbirds. '' Gouldman 's manager, Harvey Lisberg, was so impressed by the song he told Gouldman they should offer it to the Beatles. `` I said, ' I think they 're doing alright in the songwriting department, actually '', Gouldman recalled. Undeterred, Lisberg gave a demo of the song to publisher Ronnie Beck of Feldman 's, who took it to the Hammersmith Odeon, where the Beatles were performing. By coincidence the Yardbirds were also performing on a Christmas show at the venue and Beck played the song to their manager, Giorgio Gomelsky, and the band. In 1965, the Mockingbirds began a regular warm - up spot for BBC TV 's Top of the Pops, transmitted from Manchester. Gouldman recalled : `` There was one strange moment when the Yardbirds appeared on the show doing ' For Your Love '. Everyone clamoured around them -- and there I was just part of an anonymous group. I felt strange that night, hearing them play my song. '' Recording and releases The Yardbirds recorded `` For Your Love '' at the IBC Studios in London on 1 February 1965. The majority of the song was recorded with singer Keith Relf and drummer Jim McCarty backed by session musician Ron Prentice on bowed bass, Denny Piercy on bongos, and organist Brian Auger on harpsichord. Guitarists Eric Clapton and Chris Dreja only perform during the song 's double - time middle break section. Bassist Paul Samwell - Smith assumed the production duties and is listed as musical director on the 45. At the conclusion of the session, Auger wondered, `` Who, in their right mind, is going to buy a pop single with harpsichord on it ? '' Shortly after its release by Columbia on 5 March 1965, it became a hit in the UK. When it was released a month later by Epic Records in the US, it became the group 's first charting single. By then, Clapton had already left the group for various reasons, including their more commercial aspirations. The song has been covered by Fleetwood Mac, on their 1973 album Mystery to Me, and by Joe Jackson, on his 2000 live album Summer in the City, in medley with his own hit, `` Fools in Love ''. Chart performance Chart ( 1965 ) Peak position UK Singles ( The Official Charts Company ) UK Singles ( NME ) Canada Singles ( RPM ) US Billboard Hot 100 6 Ireland Irish Singles Chart 10 References ^ Jump up to : Koda, Cub ; Russo, Gregg ( 2001 ). Ultimate ! ( Boxed set booklet ). The Yardbirds. Los Angeles : Rhino Records. pp. 27, 30, 44. OCLC 781357622. R2 79825. ^ Jump up to : Clayson, Alan ( 2002 ). The Yardbirds. San Francisco : Backbeat Books. pp. 172, 196. ISBN 0 - 87930 - 724 - 2. Jump up ^ Frank Hoffmann ( 23 May 2016 ). Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900 - 2000. Routledge. p. 258. ISBN 978 - 1 - 135 - 86886 - 4. Jump up ^ The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History : Folk, pop, mods, and rockers, 1960 - 1966. Greenwood Press. 2006. p. 118. ISBN 978 - 0 - 313 - 32960 - 9. Jump up ^ Mike Clifford ; Pete Frame ( 25 August 1992 ). The Harmony illustrated encyclopedia of rock. Harmony Books. p. 194. ^ Jump up to : George Tremlett ( 1976 ). The 10cc Story. Futura. ISBN 0 - 86007 - 378 - 5. Jump up ^ `` Good evening and welcome to a very special I Write The Songs here on BBC Radio Wales with me, Alan Thompson ''. The10ccfanclub.com. Retrieved 15 January 2015. Jump up ^ `` Kirsty MacColl : Connections ''. The Kirsty MacColl web site. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 10 July 2018. Jump up ^ Dafydd Rees ; Luke Crampton ( 1999 ). Q Rock Stars Encyclopedia. Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 978 - 0751311136. Jump up ^ Columbia DB 7499 record label Jump up ^ `` 16 Brian Auger Talks About the Yardbirds ' For Your Love -. mov ''. YouTube. Retrieved 15 January 2015. Jump up ^ Unterberger, Richie. `` The Yardbirds : For Your Love -- Song Review ''. AllMusic. Retrieved 25 October 2016. Jump up ^ Rees, Dafydd ; Lazell, Barry ; Osborne, Roger ( 1995 ). Forty Years of `` NME '' Charts ( 2nd ed. ). Pan Macmillan. p. 152. ISBN 0 - 7522 - 0829 - 2. Jump up ^ `` RPM - Item Display : Top Singles - Volume 3, No. 17, June 21, 1965 '' ( PDF ). RPM. Canada : Library and Archives Canada. 31 March 2005. hide The Yardbirds Original members ( 1963 -- 68 ) : Keith Relf Paul Samwell - Smith Chris Dreja Jim McCarty Top Topham Eric Clapton Jeff Beck Jimmy Page Later members ( since 1992 ) : John Idan Gypie Mayo Alan Glen Jerry Donahue Ben King Johnny A. Kenny Aaronson Myke Scavone Albums For Your Love Having a Rave Up Roger the Engineer Little Games Birdland Live albums Five Live Yardbirds Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds Live Yardbirds ! Featuring Jimmy Page BBC Sessions Reunion Jam Live ! Blueswailing July ' 64 Live at B.B. King Blues Club Making Tracks Compilations The Yardbirds Greatest Hits Shapes of Things Cumular Limit Ultimate ! Yardbirds ' 68 Bootlegs Golden Eggs More Golden Eggs Singles `` I Wish You Would '' `` Good Morning Little Schoolgirl '' `` For Your Love '' `` Heart Full of Soul '' `` Evil Hearted You '' `` I 'm a Man '' `` Shapes of Things '' `` You 're a Better Man Than I `` Boom Boom '' `` Over Under Sideways Down '' `` Happenings Ten Years Time Ago '' `` Ten Little Indians '' Other songs `` Let It Rock '' `` Who Do You Love '' `` You Ca n't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover '' `` Too Much Monkey Business '' `` Smokestack Lightning '' `` Five Long Years '' `` The Sky Is Crying '' `` My Girl Sloopy '' `` The Train Kept A-Rollin ' '' `` Spoonful '' `` The Stumble '' `` Dust My Blues '' `` White Summer '' `` Stealing Stealing '' `` Most Likely You Go Your Way ( And I 'll Go Mine ) '' `` Dazed and Confused '' `` Knowing That I 'm Losing You '' `` I 'm Waiting for the Man '' Related Discography Members Giorgio Gomelsky Simon Napier - Bell Mickie Most Peter Grant Cream Jeff Beck Group Led Zeppelin Renaissance Box of Frogs Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=For_Your_Love&oldid=849722282 '' Categories : 1965 songs 1965 singles The Yardbirds songs Songs written by Graham Gouldman RPM Top Singles number - one singles Columbia Graphophone Company singles Hidden categories : Use British English from January 2014 Use dmy dates from January 2014 Articles with hAudio microformats Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Español Français Hrvatski Italiano Magyar Nederlands Norsk nynorsk Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Svenska 3 more Edit links This page was last edited on 10 July 2018, at 22 : 10 ( UTC ). 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Question: who sang for your love in the 60's
Answer: Keith Relf