There needed to be something different going on in rock and roll to get the attention of John Lennon. He may have got his start making the most cookie-cutter rock and roll that everyone else starts with, but by the time that he and Paul McCartney started writing, there needed to be a bit more […]
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Any other guitarist would consider working with Jimmy Page to be one of the highlights of their entire career. Even outside of Led Zeppelin, Page was a wizard whenever he had a guitar in his hand, and every single riff that he could think of would have been worthy to be one of the best […]
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A decade into Led Zeppelin’s existence, they could still make a rational argument for being the biggest rock ‘n’ roll band on earth, but the days of appearing cutting edge or ‘dangerous’ were long gone, as the louder voices in the emerging punk scene had reframed them as unhip dad rock, or yesterday’s news. Jimmy […]
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The rose-tinted view of it all is that being in a band is all fun and games. It’s gigs and beer, laughing backstage, travelling around playing card games in a splitter van and pulling over to get junk food from service stations before going off again on more adventures. But anyone who has ever been […]
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By the time Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham formed Led Zeppelin, they were already seasoned musicians who’d been in and out of various recording sessions. Page had been a member of the original Yardbirds before they disbanded, while Plant and Bonham were together in Band of Joy. Jones, meanwhile, played […]
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Imagine getting your perfect job, the one you dreamed of as a kid, only to find out that it, just like everything else, had a bitter aftertaste sometimes. That is what happened to Jimmy Page when he took his guitar skills to the studio as part of his first job in music. Few guitarists boast […]
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