Artist: Jimmy Page Genre(s):
Blues
Rock
Discography:
Outrider Year: 1988
Tracks: 9
Mean Business Year: 1986
Tracks: 8
The Firm Year: 1985
Tracks: 9
No Introduction Necessary Year: 1984
Tracks: 14
Unquestionably one of the all-time to the highest degree influential, important, and versatile guitarists and songwriters in rock history is Jimmy Page. Just about every rock'n'roll guitarist from the tardy '60s/early '70s to the present day has been influenced by Page's work with Led Zeppelin -- his monolithic riffs served as a blueprint for what would eventually become sonorous metal, still he refused to be pigeonholed to whatever single musical manner (touching upon folk, country, funk, vapours, and other genres). Page likewise lententide a hand in writing (or co-writing) Zeppelin's vast array of classical songs and produced all their albums. Born on January 9, 1944, in Heston, Middlesex, England, Page picked up the guitar at age 13 later organism inspired by the Elvis Presley tune "Baby Let's Play House," and spell he took several lessons, was mostly self-taught. Instead of attention college right after high school, Page distinct to conjoin his number one actual stone band, Neil Christian & the Crusaders, whom he toured England with. But Page fell seriously ill (with glandular fever) and was forced to throw in the towel and recover. Dejected, Page pondered giving up music and focusing on another interest, house painting, as he enrolled at an fine art college in Sutton, Surrey.
With the emergence of such bands as the Rolling Stones in the early '60s and their gritty blues-rock, Page's interest in music perked up one time again -- just instead of forming a band right away, he decided to hone his trade by becoming one of England's round top sitting guitarists and producers. Although the demand specifics of which roger Sessions he was convoluted with have turn blurry over sentence, it's confirmed that he worked with many of the day's top acts, including the Who, Them, Donovan, the Kinks, and the Rolling Stones, among others. By 1966, Page was looking for to place his seance form on take for and get together a full-time band; he accepted an offer to play with the Yardbirds (ab initio as a bassist, so shortly thenceforth as a guitar player), as he was paired up with some other one of rock's all-time guitar greats, Jeff Beck. Although the Yardbirds began as a straight-ahead blues-rock band, with the comprehension of Page in the lineup, the mathematical group began experimenting with psychedelic and hard john Rock styles.
Despite it being obvious that the Yardbirds were on the downside of their life history (Beck left shortly after Page came onboard), Page appeared on the album
Slight Games and several tours ahead the lot at long last called it a day in 1968. With a strand of tour of duty dates still set up end-to-end Europe, Page decided to go through and through with the shows and assign together a new striation wHO was dubbed the New Yardbirds -- including longtime academic term bassist John Paul Jones, plus newcomers Robert Plant on vocals and John Bonham on drums. After the closing of their initial circuit, the lot changed their make to Led Zeppelin and explored the still largely chartless territory of toilsome rock/heavy metal. The band immediately became one of rock's most successful and long-suffering bands, issuing a string of graeco-Roman albums from 1969 through 1975 -- Led Zeppelin I,
LED Zeppelin II,
LED Zeppelin III,
LED Zeppelin IV,
Houses of the Holy, and
Physical Graffiti -- which spawned such graeco-Roman rock receiving set standards as "Stupid and Confused," "Whole Lotta Love," "Immigrant Song," "Dim Dog," "Staircase to Heaven," and "Jammu and Kashmir," as the banding likewise became a must-see live represent in the process. Page also base the time to form with common people creative person Roy Harper (well-nigh notably his 1971 handout,
Stormcock, under the false name S. Flavius Mercurius). Zeppelin was arguably the biggest stone band in the world by the mid-'70s (their influence on other john Rock bands following in their wake cannot be accented enough) as they launched their possess record book company, Swan Song, just it was around this time that Page began dabbling with diacetylmorphine and other substances, eventually preeminent to him seemly a full-blown addict by the late '70s/early '80s (as a result, his playing began to suffer). Also, Page's interest in the occult became a concern to those around him (he went as far as purchasing a mansion house on the Loch Ness in Scotland that was at one time owned by famed Satanist Aleister Crowley).
Graf Zeppelin continued issue albums until the morning of the '80s (1976's concert movie/soundtrack
The Song Remains the Same and
Presence, 1979's
In Through the Out Door), just tragedy at last derailed the quaternity -- the expiry of Plant's whitney Moore Young Jr. son in 1977 and Bonham's alcohol-related death in 1980. After Led Zeppelin decided to call it quits in late 1980, Page disappeared from sight (it became known afterward on that he scarcely touched his instrument for a foresighted time afterward). It wasn't until 1982 that Page began to emerge from his self-imposed exile, as he composed and played on the question photo soundtracks to
Death Wish I and
Death Wish II, compiled the Zeppelin outtakes compendium,
Coda, and took part in the 1983 star-studded A.R.M.S. tour, which power saw Page merge with Beck and Eric Clapton for a series of shows that elevated money for multiple induration research. In 1984, Page guested alongside Plant, Beck, and Nile Rodgers on the impinge on EP of rock & wrap oldies The Honeydrippers, and formed his first base band since the death of Zeppelin, dubbed the Firm. The group featured onetime Free/Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers, and contempt the fact that their self-titled debut was a goodish hit, the band decided to call it a solar day shortly after the spill of their lukewarm-received sophomore effort,
Mean Business.
Zeppelin fans were tending a rare treat when their living trinity members reunited (with drummers Tony Thompson and Phil Collins) for the mammoth Live Aid at Philadelphia's JFK Stadium in July 1985 -- unfortunately handing in an fantastically under-rehearsed, sloppy operation. Zeppelin reunited again in 1988 for the Atlantic Records twenty-fifth Anniversary Concert at New York's Madison Square Garden (this clock time Bonham's son, Jason, filled in for his late father-God behind the kit), and so far once again performed some other mistake-filled miniskirt set. The same class Page guested on Plant's solo press release, Now & Zen, as well as issuing his number one always solo recording,
Outrider, following it up with a tour that affected upon tracks from all eras of his life history. By the early '90s, further rumors of an impendent Zeppelin reunion continued to circulate, and after Plant declined an invitation from Page to join forces one time once more, Page distinct to collaborate with onetime Deep Purple/Whitesnake singer David Coverdale, whose vocal fashion has a great deal been compared to Plant's over the geezerhood. Page's up-to-the-minute project only lasted a single record album, 1993's heavily Zep-like
Coverdale/Page, as a proposed populace tour was scrapped in favor of precisely a few select dates in Japan.
In 1994, Plant and Page finally agreed to collaborate once once again (although Jones wasn't invited this clock time), in the lead to the release of the acoustic set
No Quarter the same class, addition a highly popular
MTV Unplugged special and sold-out world spell. A year after, Led Zeppelin was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, this being the second time a Page-related band got the nod from the Hall (in 1992, the Yardbirds were esteemed). 1998 proverb Plant and Page emergence an album of all-new material, Walking into Clarksdale, which was surprisingly not well received by the world, sinking from sight shortly after its discharge. The duad went their separate shipway by the late '90s, as Page joined the Black Crowes for a tour and springy album (2000's
Live at the Greek). The same class as the album's release, some other Crowes/Page tour was cut short due to a back up injury Page suffered. But in June of 2001, Page took to the concert stage aboard Plant to observe the sixtieth birthday of their quaker, common people artist Roy Harper.
