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Jimmy Page
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Jimmy Page is an English guitarist and producer, born in 1944 in Heston, a suburb of London. At the age of twelve he found a guitar in the house in Epsom where his family had come to live. He taught himself to play, mostly by listening to records. Baby Let's Play House by Elvis Presley, with guitarist Scotty Moore, was the decisive moment. He also listened to skiffle, folk and blues guitarists such as Elmore James, B.B. King and Otis Rush.
Music and breakthrough
In the early 1960s Page became one of London's busiest session guitarists. He sometimes played three sessions a day, for The Kinks, on the B-side of The Who's first single, for Them and on Shirley Bassey's Goldfinger, among others. He also worked as a producer for the label Immediate. In 1966 he joined The Yardbirds, and when that group split up in 1968, he founded Led Zeppelin in London, with singer Robert Plant, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham. Page wrote and produced the band's music, with songs such as Whole Lotta Love (1969) and Stairway to Heaven (1971). After Bonham's death in 1980 he played in The Firm and with David Coverdale and Robert Plant, among others.
Influence
Page combined blues and rock with folk and Eastern influences. His strength lay in heavy, simple riffs that carry an entire song, and in his work as a producer, with which he shaped the band's sound. He is counted among the most influential guitarists ever, and his way of playing became a model for hard rock and heavy metal.
Listening
Discography
Studio albums
- 1968Don’t Send Me No Flowers
- 1968No Introduction Necessary
- 1973Lucifer Rising and Other Sound Tracks (soundtrack)
- 1982Death Wish II (soundtrack)
- 1985Whatever Happened to Jugula?
- 1988Outrider
- 1993Coverdale · Page
In School of Rock
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- Mixtape 4: When Rock Was Still PopNL Reader
- Magazine: De regisseur als djNL Magazine
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