Keith Relf was a British musician, best known for being the lead singer for The Yardbirds. Relf began performing in a variety of blues bands in 1956, and founded The Yardbirds with bassist Paul Samwell-Smith in 1963. After the Yardbirds disbanded in 1968, Relf and drummer Jim McCarty co-founded the progressive rock band Renaissance (only to leave the group a year later), and Relf would later form the progressive rock supergroup Armageddon. Relf died on May 14, 1976, after suffering from electrocution while playing guitar. Relf was 33 years old.