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Jimmy Page
James Patrick Page is an English musician and producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.
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entertainment · English guitarist (born 1944) · guitarist · composer · songwriter · record producer · musician · film actor · film producer · television producer · television actor · voice actor · also Jimmy Page, Jim Page, Page
Born 9 January 1944 · Q165467
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2026· 7 entries
“What a wonderful world to discover.”
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“Recording used to be a science”
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“the chances of it happening [were] zero.”
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“I want to do biological research [to find a cure for] cancer, if it isn”
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“there was a lot of busking in the early days, but as they say, I had to come to grips with it and it was a good schooling.”
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VA News (.gov): Need a personal record from VA? Here’s the FOIA page that gets you there.
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2025· 2 entries
Lead Stories rated the claim “Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in music for 2025 includes Tom Jones, Jelly Roll, Willie Nelson, Pink, Jimmy Page, Johnny Mathis, Mick Jagger” Viet Spam.
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Page appeared in the musical documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin, directed by Bernard MacMahon and produced by Allison McGourty
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2024· 1 entry
Released album “Night of the Guitar Kings”.
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2022· 1 entry
Released album “Rag & Bone Man: The Rarities Collection”.
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2021· 1 entry
Released album “Ohio”.
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2019· 2 entries
Released album “Tribute to Alexis Korner: Live at the Club Palais Ballroom, Nottingham 1984”.
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Fender released two signature models, both based on Page's 1959 Telecaster (which he received as a gift from Jeff Beck):
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2017· 1 entry
Released ep “Live at Jones Beach”.
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2015· 1 entry
Released album “Sound Tracks”.
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2014· 1 entry
Stating that he was not the reason for the band's dormancy: "Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones are quite contained in their own worlds and leave it to [him]", adding that he is "not the bad guy" and that he has "got nothing
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2013· 1 entry
Page (with Led Zeppelin) was awarded a Grammy for "Best Rock Album" for Celebration Day
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2012· 1 entry
Via his website as Lucifer Rising and Other Sound Tracks
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2011· 1 entry
Released album “Playin' Up a Storm”.
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2008· 4 entries
Page and Gómez-Paratcha divorced in 2008.
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Page co-produced a documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim titled It Might Get Loud
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The Gibson Custom Shop produced a limited run of 25 re-creations of the guitar, each with a Bigsby tremolo and a new custom six-way toggle switch
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With a run of 25, again signed by Page, plus an additional 500 unsigned guitars
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2007· 2 entries
Saying: "It's an album that I really need to get out of my system
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Released album “A Taste of Satan (The Lucifer Rising Variation Japan Edition 2007)”.
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2006· 3 entries
Released album “Wailing Sounds”.
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Released album “Jimmy Page and Friends”.
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Released album “Star Lake Amphitheater 2000”.
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2005· 1 entry
Page was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of his Brazilian charity work for Task Brazil and Action For Brazil's Children's Trust, made an honorary citizen of Rio de Janeiro later
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2003· 5 entries
Released album “Rock and Roll Highway”.
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Released album “The Jimmy Page Collection: Have Guitar, Will Travel”.
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Released album “This Guitar Kills”.
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Stated: "I can't speak for the [other members of the band], but for me drugs were an integral part of the whole thing, right from the beginning, right to the end
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Page responded to a question as to whether he regrets getting so involved in heroin and cocaine:
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2001· 5 entries
Released album “Guitar for Hire”.
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Released album “The Jimmy Page Collection”.
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Released album “Excess All Areas 2000”.
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Released album “Live at the Greek: Complete Live Master”.
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After guesting with Fred Durst and Wes Scantlin's performance of "Thank You" at the MTV Europe Video Music Awards, Page once again continued his collaboration with Robert Plant
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2000· 5 entries
Released album “Live at the Greek”.
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Released album “Hots On for New York”.
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Released album “Hip Young Guitar Slinger”.
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Released album “Led Zeppelin”.
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But Page ultimately quit before completion of the tour
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “It's a Bloody Life”.
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Released album “Quiet Please!”.
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Studio Works 1964-1968”.
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Eric Clapton / Jimmy Page & Albert Lee”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “Voodoo Blues”.
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1994· 6 entries
Released album “Jimmy's Jam”.
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Released album “Freight Loader”.
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Released album “1993-12-14: One More Zep!: The Budokan, Tokyo, Japan”.
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Released album “1993-12-18: Over Now: Yoyogi Olympic Arena, Tokyo, Japan”.
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Andy Manson was commissioned to make another triple neck guitar for Page
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Page and Robert Plant reunited as Page and Plant for an initial performance as part of MTV's "Unplugged" series
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1993· 3 entries
Released album “Coverdale · Page”.
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Released ep “Coverdale • Page”.
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Page collaborated with David Coverdale (of English rock band Whitesnake) for the album Coverdale–Page and a brief tour of Japan
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1992· 3 entries
Released album “Lucifer Rising”.
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Released album “Midnight Moonlight”.
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Released album “Jimmy's Back Pages... The Early Years”.
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1991· 3 entries
Released album “Past & Present Live in Concert”.
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Released album “For Zeppelin Fans Only!”.
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Released album “Live USA”.
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1990· 3 entries
Released album “Session Man, Volume 2”.
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A Knebworth concert to aid the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre and the British School for Performing Arts and Technology saw Plant unexpectedly joined by Page to perform "Misty Mountain Hop", "Wearing and Tearing",
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Released album “Session Man, Volume 1”.
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1988· 4 entries
Which featured contributions from Plant, with Page contributing in turn to Plant's solo album Now and Zen, which was released the same year
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Released album “Outrider”.
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They have a son, James Patrick Page (born April 1988).
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Released album “Before the Balloon Went Up”.
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1986· 1 entry
Page reunited temporarily with his former Yardbirds bandmates to play on several tracks of the Box of Frogs album Strange Land
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1985· 3 entries
For the Live Aid concert with both Phil Collins and Tony Thompson filling drum duties
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Released album “Whatever Happened to Jugula?”.
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The guitar was fitted with a Parsons-White B-string bender and used extensively by Page from the mid-to-late 1980s onward, including the Outrider tour and the Page/Plant "Unledded" special on MTV
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1984· 5 entries
“[When I wrote], I'd be expanding on an idea and then I'd go back and I'd review it. So a lot of it you can hear train wrecks as you're playing through the song -- I'm just working and trying stuff. Then I'd come back, as you say, and extract what appeared to be the shining bits, if you like, as opposed to the bits, and then I'd lace them together. That's how the sequence of the song would arrive.”
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At Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany, playing "I'm Down"
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Page recorded with Plant as the Honeydrippers the album The Honeydrippers: Volume 1 and with John Paul Jones on the film soundtrack Scream for Help
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“The music is lyrical without lyrics. The lyrics are telling a story and they're conveying a situation or a person or a reflection or an observation, and the construction of the music I felt was doing the same sort of thing. It was lyrical in the way it was being played.”
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Released album “White Boy Blues – Classic Guitars of Clapton, Beck & Page”.
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1982· 3 entries
Released album “Death Wish II”.
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And, despite a second offence usually carrying a jail sentence, he was only fined
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Page collaborated with director Michael Winner to record the Death Wish II soundtrack
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1981· 1 entry
Page joined with Yes bassist Chris Squire and drummer Alan White to form a supergroup called XYZ (for former Yes-Zeppelin)
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1980· 2 entries
Page played with XYZ, the Firm, the Honeydrippers, Coverdale–Page, and Page and Plant
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After Bonham died at Page's home
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1979· 2 entries
“My original idea for the opening tracks for Houses Of The Holy was that a short overture would be a rousing instrumental introduction with layered electric guitars that would segue in to”
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Notably on "Ten Years Gone" and "Hot Dog"
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1978· 1 entry
Page's diminished influence on the album (relative to bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones) is partly attributed to his addiction, which resulted in his absence from the studio for long periods
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1975· 3 entries
Harmony Sovereign H-1260 (year unknown), used on Led Zeppelin III, for the acoustic intro to "Stairway to Heaven", and in live shows from 1970 to 1972
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Knebworth in 1979 and the Tour Over Europe 1980 for In the Evening
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Page began to use heroin, according to Richard Cole
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1973· 2 entries
“Oh, everyone went over the top a few times. I know I did and, to be honest with you, I don”
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Released album “Lucifer Rising and Other Sound Tracks”.
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1972· 2 entries
Page bought the Tower House from Richard Harris
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Released album “Rock Generation, Vol. 9”.
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1971· 1 entry
It was used for recording the "Stairway to Heaven" solo
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1968· 3 entries
Page reconfigured the group with a new line-up to fulfill unfinished tour dates in Scandinavia
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Released album “Don’t Send Me No Flowers”.
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Released album “No Introduction Necessary”.
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1967· 2 entries
While recording the single "Ten Little Indians"
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When Page was still with The Yardbirds, he purchased the Thames Boathouse on the River Thames in Pangbourne, Berkshire and resided there until 1973
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1965· 2 entries
Page produced one of Dana Gillespie's early singles, "Thank You Boy"
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Page was hired by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham to act as house producer and A&R man for the newly formed Immediate Records label, which allowed him to play on and/or produce tracks by John Mayall, Nico, Chri
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1964· 2 entries
Page contributed guitar to the incidental music of the Beatles' 1964 film A Hard Day's Night
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And 1965 included Marianne Faithfull's "As Tears Go By", Jonathan King's "Everyone's Gone to the Moon", the Nashville Teens' "Tobacco Road", the Rolling Stones "Heart of Stone" (along with "We're Wasting Time") (also, V
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1957· 1 entry
With a Höfner President acoustic, which he'd bought from money saved up from his milk round in the summer holidays
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1952· 1 entry
Moved to Feltham and then to Miles Road, Epsom, in Surrey
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-01-09.
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