Jimmy Page
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Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes: Live At The Greek (SPV)
Review by Mat Snow, MOJO, September 2000
Recorded live in October’99, a scorching blues-rock hit-packed double album like they used to make ‘em. ...
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The Session Men No. 1: Jimmy Page
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, August 1965
Each month B.I. receives letters asking for information on various session men. In fact, last month, we published one from J. Townsend of Wolverhampton, who ...
The Yardbirds: Why I Left and Why I Joined
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 8 July 1966
"I'M A BIT TOO old at twenty-three for all those screaming kids leaping about. I don't really think I'll be missed in the group – ...
Jimmy Will Change Yardbirds Sound!
Interview by Kevin Swift, Beat Instrumental, September 1966
JIMMY PAGE, one of our top guitarists, turned his back on the session scene, took up bass for the first time in his life and ...
Yardbird Jimmy Page says, 'Open Your Mind'
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, March 1967
In the December issue of H.P., you read a little background on Jimmy Page, who is the new Yardbird. He started off on bass to ...
The Yardbirds: Only Jimmy Left To Form The New Yardbirds
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 12 October 1968
WHATEVER HAPPENED to the Yardbirds? One of the great mysteries of our time, ranking with the Devil's footprints, the Marie Celeste and the Five Penny ...
Jimmy Page: Paganini of the Seventies
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 14 February 1970
First of a great new series by Chris Welch ...
Screaming Lord Sutch: Heavy Friends Help The Lord's Comeback
Interview by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 11 April 1970
LORD SUTCH is back! The perennial rocker has come screaming back on the rock scene, after two years of abdication in America, through the help ...
The Yardbirds: Live Yardbirds Featuring Jimmy Page
Review by John Morthland, Phonograph Record, November 1971
THE YARDBIRDS must be one of the most oft-recorded live groups. There's the 1963 set at the Marquee available on a British import (parts are ...
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 1 September 1973
JIMMY PAGE is as wary of discussing his formidable past as he is talking to the press in the first place. ...
Jimmy Page: The Power And The Glory
Profile by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 March 1974
WHEN THEY showed Antonioni's classic film of the 'sixties, Blow Up, on TV last week, apart from evoking the real or imaginary spirit of "Swinging ...
Jimmy Page: After All, It's Just a Piece of Wood With Strings...
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 12 October 1974
JIMMY PAGE talks about guitars he has owned, the development of his style and reminisces on those early Yardbird and Led Zep days ...
Led Zeppelin: The Graffiti of the Physical...
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 7 December 1974
...and the Exploration of the Metaphysical. A candid interview with Led Zep. ...
Jimmy Page: Guitars I Have Known
Interview by Nick Kent, Creem, February 1975
(As a guitarist, Jimmy Page has all the bases covered. Clapton has that soaring fluid thing down pat, Beck is the absolute Crowned Prince of ...
Interview by Mick Brown, Crawdaddy!, September 1976
The gossip-monger who exposed Babylon, created Scorpio Rising and inspired 'Sympathy for the Devil', turns to Magick and the ascending Lucifer. ...
Zeus Of Zeppelin: An Interview with Jimmy Page
Interview by Mick Houghton, Circus, 12 October 1976
You're your own record company bosses now with Swan Song, which is a far cry from the days when you were doing sessions for Decca ...
Interview by David Hancock, National RockStar, 13 November 1976
OO-EE-OO. Strange magic. Plunging into the occult and locked into an Aleister Crowley trip. Marked down on a snuff list; to be rubbed out by ...
'It’s a Massive Compromise, Making Films': Jimmy Page on The Song Remains the Same
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 20 November 1976
A WARM HANDSHAKE, twinkling eyes and black hair grown thicker than he has allowed for some while – Jimmy Page arrived at his London office ...
Jimmy Page: The Roaring Silence
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 20 November 1976
I WAS IN New York when they last asked me to write a thing on Led Zeppelin. An American magazine, it was, with strict deadlines ...
Anger Rising: Jimmy Page and Kenneth's Lucifer
Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 1977
LED ZEPPELIN guitarist and leader Jimmy Page has been fired as composer for the soundtrack of the film Lucifer Rising by its director, Kenneth Anger. ...
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, July 1977
CONDUCTING AN INTERVIEW with Jimmy Page, lead guitarist and producer/arranger for England's notorious hard rock band Led Zeppelin, amounts very nearly to constructing a mini-history ...
Jimmy Page Gives The Interview Of His Life
Interview by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, September 1977
A Three-Part Series — Part One: Pre-Yardbirds ...
Jimmy Page: Paging the Yardbirds
Interview by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, October 1977
JIMMY PAGE gives his version Part 2 of a three-part interview by Dave Schulps ...
Interview by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, November 1977
JIMMY P. on LED Z. The Conclusion of a three-part interview ...
Retrospective by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 17 July 1982
Who the Hell is ALEISTER CROWLEY and why do pop people keep saying weird things about him? asks Sandy Robertson. ...
Book Excerpt by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, 'The Guitar Greats' (BBC Books), 1983
THERE ARE CERTAIN guitar players without whom this book could not claim to approach completeness, and, of course, one of our criteria for inclusion was ...
Jimmy Page: The Life And Times Of A Guitar Prophet
Interview by John Tobler, Musician, January 1984
JIMMY PAGE was born in Heston, West London, on January 9, 1944, and moved with his family to nearby Feltham during his infancy. He spent ...
Interview by Chris Welch, Creem, April 1985
A GREEN PYRAMID of laser light forms around the figure in white. A violin bow is held aloft and then swishes wand-like across the guitar, ...
The Jimmy Page Interview, Pt. 2
Interview by Chris Welch, Creem, May 1985
(This is the concluding segment of an interview writer Chris Welch recently conducted with Jimmy Page in Frankfurt, Germany, following one of the guitarist's premiere ...
Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Musician, October 1985
Paul Young's Bassist Shines Through The Screaming Hordes ...
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, July 1986
The following excerpts are from a book I wrote in 1978 titled The Beck Book, a documentary detailing the life and music of guitarist Jeff ...
Jimmy Page: Of Yardbirds And The Shapes of Things to Come
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar World, July 1986
For a short time in the late sixties, Page and Beck were in one of the most happening bands to ever come out of England. Some say ...
Robert Plant: The Song Remains The Same
Interview by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, 30 January 1988
Over the past three years Led Zeppelin have been used and abused by everyone from The Cult to the Beastie Boys. On the eve of ...
Interview by Nick Kent, Vox, December 1990
In days of yore, communication breakdowns with the press suggested Jimmy Page was a dazed and confused prince of heavy metal. With Zeppelin reissues breaking ...
Jimmy Page and David Coverdale: Who’d Have Thought…?
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, April 1993
... thought, that is, that the devil devotee doyen of decibel dementia (that's Jimmy Page) and the python-powered potentate of poodle rock, David Coverdale, could, ...
Retrospective by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, May 2001
Before Jimmy Page became a rock god, he was a sonic apprentice par excellence. ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, March 2003
BH: About ten years ago you talked about the footage that's in the DVD. Robert said he didn't want to go back there while you ...
Jimmy Page: The Godfather of Rock
Profile and Interview by Tim Cooper, The Independent, 27 August 2004
As Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page is honoured in London's Rock'n'Roll Walk of Fame, Tim Cooper meets the legend who inspired an entire generation of air ...
Davis Guggenheim's It Might Get Loud
Film/DVD/TV Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, February 2010
Riveting doc about the magical powers of the electric guitar, starring Jack White, Jimmy Page and the Edge. ...
Jimmy Page: "I want to make sure that I do this music. It's most important that it sees daylight."
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, February 2010
John Paul Jones has Them Crooked Vultures. Robert Plant has Alison Krauss. But what, exactly, is Jimmy Page planning for 2010? As a new movie ...
Report by Chris Charlesworth, Rock's Backpages, October 2014
TO CADOGAN HALL in Sloaney Knightsbridge where Jimmy Page has agreed to submit to a public interrogation by Guardian Music Editor Michael Hann, the exercise ...
Picture this: The love affair between rockers and the lens
Book Review by James Medd, New Statesman, 16 October 2014
Jimmy Page: Jimmy Page (Genesis) Marianne Faithfull: Marianne Faithfull – A Life on Record (Rizzoli) Chris Stein: Negative – Me, Blondie and the Advent ...
Guide by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, August 2016
Channelling the magick of Aleister Crowley and the neo-paganism of witchcraft, occult rock is the sound of rock 'n' roll's secret society. Edwin Pouncey reads ...
Good Time Girl: Memories of super groupie Pamela Des Barres
Retrospective and Interview by Craig McLean, The Observer, 6 May 2018
Pamela Des Barres had the giants of rock'n'roll in the palm of her hand, as her candid memoir reveals. ...
Chris Salewicz: Jimmy Page – The Definitive Biography
Book Review by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, August 2018
BACK IN 2012 I was involved in convoluted negotiations with Jimmy Page's lawyer for Omnibus Press to publish a trade edition of the photo book ...
see also Firm, The
see also Led Zeppelin
see also Jimmy Page/Robert Plant
see also Yardbirds, The
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