Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page disagreed about who composed the world’s “first heavy metal riff”

Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page had been close friends ever since they met in their teens. It was Page who recommended Beck as Eric ...

Jimmy Page on the Beatle who inspired Led Zeppelin’s most beautiful song — and why it owes a debt to James Taylor

Perhaps no track in the band’s catalog demonstrates this better than “The Rain Song,” the second cut on Zeppelin’s fifth album, 1973’s Houses of the Holy. Combining guitar work inspired by folk, blues ...
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Jimmy Page’s Biggest Regret During the Early Days of Led Zeppelin: “There Ultimately Never Was a Next Time”

During the early days of Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page and the band worked tirelessly, and it entailed a regret for the virtuoso guitarist.
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Jimmy Page Wrote This Unusual Led Zeppelin Song to Spite a Beatle, Whose Song He References in the Track

Led Zeppelin has a former member of The Beatles (and Jimmy Page's competitive nature) to thank for one of its most unusual ...