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Blues Breakers is a 1966 electric British blues album credited to John Mayall with Eric Clapton. The band name John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, that was used by the band consequently is derived from the title of this album, no original issues mention The Bluesbreakers as band name. The album was also known as The Beano Album because of its cover photograph showing Clapton reading The Beano, a well-known British children's comic. Clapton stated in his autobiography that he was reading Beano on the cover because he felt like being "uncooperative" during the photo shoot.[1]

The band on this album included Mayall on piano, Hammond organ, harmonica and a majority of the vocals, bassist John McVie, drummer Hughie Flint, and Clapton. Augmenting the band on this album was a horn section added post production, with Alan Skidmore, John Almond, and Derek Healey (misrepresented on the sleeve as Dennis Healey).