| Blues Breakers | ||||
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 Album cover with band members. L-R John Mayall, Eric Clapton, John McVie and Hughie Flint | ||||
| Studio album by John Mayall with Eric Clapton | ||||
| Released | July 22, 1966 | |||
| Recorded | May 1966 | |||
| Studio | Decca, London[1] | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 37:39 | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
| Producer | Mike Vernon | |||
| John Mayall chronology | ||||
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Blues Breakers, colloquially known as The Beano Album, is the debut studio album by the English blues rock band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, originally credited to John Mayall with Eric Clapton. Produced by Mike Vernon and released in 1966 by Decca Records (UK) and London Records (US), it pioneered a guitar-dominated blues-rock sound.
The album was commercially successful and most critics viewed it positively. In 2003 and 2012, Rolling Stone ranked it number 195 on its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". It was voted number 391 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).
- ^ Clapton 2007, pp. 72, 73.
- ^ Eder, Bruce. "John Mayall: Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton – Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
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