Top Topham

Anthony Topham (also known as Top Topham) (3 July 1947 – 23 January 2023) was an English musician and visual artist who was best known as a blues guitarist and also for being the first lead guitarist of The Yardbirds. Topham left the band before they achieved mainstream popularity and was replaced by Eric Clapton, the first of three lead guitarists from the Yardbirds to gain an international reputation (the other two being Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page). Aside from his musical career, Topham also worked as an interior designer and painter. His daughter, Léanie Kaleido, announced on Twitter on 23rd January 2023 that her father had died of dementia. 
==Links to Peel==
Top Topham only released one single ('Christmas Cracker') and an album ('Ascension Heights') between 1968 and 1969. It is not known whether Peel played any material from them, as there are not many tracklistings from that era on this site. However, in early 1970, Peel introduced a concert show, recorded at the Paris Theatre in London, featuring Chicken Shack and Duster Bennett with friends Pete Wingfield and Top Topham making an appearance.
==Shows Played==
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*11 January 1970: Hop House (Live performance)
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
Category:Artists