James Patrick Page OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician and producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Prolific in creating guitar riffs, Page's style involves various alternative guitar tunings and melodic solos, coupled with aggressive, distorted guitar tones.

Jimmy Page Biography, learn about the Led Zeppelin legendary guitarist. Throughout his career with The Yardbirds to Page & Plant.

James Patrick Page OBE (born 9 January 1944 in Heston, Middlesex, England) is an English guitarist, songwriter and producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London. From 1966 to 1968 he was a member of The Yardbirds. After that band ended Page went on to form the band Led Zeppelin.

2 days ago · It’s August 1968, and in a poky room beneath London’s Gerrard Street, Jimmy Page is rehearsing his new band. A 24-year-old guitar-for-hire who’d made uncredited appearances on epochal hits ...

May 24, 2024 · As Louder’s Classic Rock put it, “Jimmy Page [wrote] the rule book on the art of rock guitar, from monolithic riffing to blistering solos, through acoustic beauty to vast instrumental guitar...

4 days ago · Speaking with The Guardian, McMahon reveals that all three surviving band members needed convincing to support the project, with Jimmy Page the first to agree after a seven-hour meeting in a ...

Sep 27, 2024 · Jimmy Page is the virtuoso guitarist and founder of Led Zeppelin — the swashbuckling hard rock band that set the standard for the many who have followed. Zeppelin may be the most imitated band in the world, and Jimmy Page has been selected as the greatest guitarist in the history of rock music.

Jul 31, 2023 · The story of his alchemy in transforming the Yardbirds into Led Zeppelin is an archetypal rock narrative, filled with backroom deals and sheer brilliance wrested from rock and roll mayhem. It is also very much the story of two adolescent friends, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. “Jimmy and I have known one another since we were 14 or so,“ Beck says.

Jan 1, 2025 · In 2015, Led Zeppelin founder Jimmy Page spoke to Classic Rock about his life and work, from the first recordings he made as a naïve teenager to the legacy that rock’s greatest band leaves behind.

Jan 9, 2024 · Today Jimmy Page turns 80, so we're paying tribute to the rock god's rock god, an undisputed guitar behemoth. Here, in an exclusive with Guitarist magazine back in 2014, Page talks us through his autobiography and opens up about the instruments that shaped his early path from teenage pretender to star of the London session scene, the Yardbirds ...