The entire concept of Led Zeppelin wouldn’t have existed if not for Jimmy Page. He may not have been the one singing every song or bringing the same thunder that John Bonham had behind the kit, but thanks to his knowledge of the studio and ability to pump out one riff after the next, half […]
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Two things can be true at once. It is true and accurate to say that on July 13th, 1985, Live Aid made history with a TV audience of over 1.9billion people tuning into the two-venue charity concert. It is also true and accurate to say that the show was a complete and utter organisational mess, […]
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Musicians have to go through their fair share of mistakes to become legendary. For all of the great players who seem to pick up on their craft in minutes, there will always be a few who spend years with their instrument before becoming one of the greatest in the business. While Jimmy Page had put […]
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What is a genius? Is it somebody that you occasionally read about in the news who gets accepted into Oxford University aged 12 and has a digit above 200? Or, a songwriter who lights the world up with their music and enriches the souls of millions? Ultimately, the definition is in the eye of the […]
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After over 50 years, it feels like we’re still just scratching the surface of what Led Zeppelin did throughout the 1970s. There are certain songs that are more straightforward than others, but what kind of divine musical god gave these four musicians the power to write something as epic as ‘Kashmir’ or turn in as […]
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Jack White was always frustrated with the stigma that was attached to Detroit, as he felt it made people view his music in a way that undermined the actual sound of it. His issue was with the idea of authenticity and how music is left to one side if an artist doesn’t come across as […]
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Few artists in history have had as much praise heaped upon them as Jimmy Page. The curly-haired Led Zeppelin occultist has been lauded by the likes of Ritchie Blackmore, who crowned him “way ahead of most guitar players”, and he very rarely lauds anyone, Alex Lifeson, who said he loved “everything he represented”, and even […]
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There’s a certain sense of immediacy whenever Jimmy Page went into the studio to make a Led Zeppelin record. The band had all the time in the world to make the record that they wanted, but when listening to the way that they interacted with each other, each riff seemed to grab you by the […]
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How do you ever begin to define a guitarist as prolific as Jimmy Page? His first guitar was a small, run-down acoustic number, not the kind of thing you can learn to be a legend on, but the sort of instrument that gives you a feel for things and allows kids to imagine themselves becoming […]
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When Jimmy Page first left The Yardbirds, he wasn’t looking to become just another blues-rock guitar player. Led Zeppelin had to be their own unique entity when they first began, and even if they had a few of the blues tropes on their first records, Page had the idea for the band to become a […]
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