The Yardbirds' Facebook page has been hacked and the band members have been locked out of the account.

Newsweek reports that the page, which was used to post news, photos and articles about the band, has been used of late to post a series of links to articles about sex positions.

"I am one of the admins locked out of the page," Yardbirds webmaster Russ Garrett explained in an e-mail.

"We no longer have access to the controls. Facebook has been totally unresponsive to our complaints about the hack."

"Part of what I find so pathos-inducing about this whole mess is how the Yardbirds — a band with an indelible place in rock history, a band who appeared in Antonioni's groundbreaking 1966 film Blowup — could have their online presence undone by such a vulgar, needling social media pitfall," adds Michael Goodman, the fan who alerted Newsweek to the hack.

"There's something so '2015' about all of it."

The band has launched a new Yardbirds Facebook page.