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 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 ...
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The Sincere Affinity Jimmy Page Has for Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett: “You Can Really Feel the Genius There”

Syd Barrett was one of the founding members of Pink Floyd and the premier creative force in the band’s 1960s era. Notably, Barrett pinned iconic Pink Floyd tracks “See Emily Play” and “Arnold Layne”.