Happenings Ten Years Time Ago - Mono

This is a very psychedelic song, with the singer looking back on events in the past and wondering if they were real. In our interview with Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty, he explained: "On 'Happenings Ten Years Time Ago,' Keith (Relf) and I were trying to write a song about reincarnation. We'd seen everything before, and it was all happening again. That was quite an interesting viewpoint, really. Meeting people along our way that we'd seen from another day. Sort of bringing in that situation that we'd been there before."

During the 5-year life span of The Yardbirds, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page were all members. There was some overlap between Beck and Page, and this is one of the few songs they both played on.

John Paul Jones played bass on this song. Jones also played bass on the Yardbirds tracks "No Excess Baggage" and "Goodnight Sweet Josephine." After The Yardbirds broke up, Page and Jones added Robert Plant and John Bonham for a Scandinavian tour as "The New Yardbirds." By October 1968, they began played under a new name: Led Zeppelin.