JIMMY PAGE
We come from the land of ice and snow,
the midnight sun where the hot springs gush
The Hammer of the Gods will drive our ships to new lands
to fight the hordes
singing and crying: Valhalla I am coming "
(Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin)
JIMMY PAGE (January 9, 1944 in Heston, Middlesex, England)
incredible guitarist, which evokes, as few others, feeling powerful and primordial. Born as a "session man" studio musician, in support in the halls of records and soon became the most requested, so that he was offered the vacant position of guitarist Eric Clapton in the Yardbirds in 1966. In 1968 the group broke up and Page began the era of Led Zeppelin, a group formed with Robert Plant on vocals, John Paul Jones on bass and John Bonham on drums.
was an immediate success and Led Zeppelin are recognized worldwide as one of the most significant rock band of the period, publishing - particularly between 1969 and 1975 - a series of albums that have become classics of the genre, such as LED ZEPPELIN I LED ZEPPELIN II LED ZEPPELIN III LED ZEPPELIN IV, House of the Holy and Physical Graffiti.
idolized as a few at home and abroad, had a hit in America that has become legendary even, so that they found in the United States as their homeland sentimental. The legend is powered from year to year, from a tour the other entries bounced, almost whispered, "the virtuosity of Page was certainly the work of Satan" which the guitarist was often associated.
And there was not enough to look for people who wanted to believe: during their glory in the '70s, Led Zeppelin were the band's most famous living. The alleged pact between Led Zeppelin and the Devil has a solid foundation in the tradition of folk music, especially when taking into account the fact that they began their career playing songs with strong blues roots. In the Mississippi Delta where the blues is at home, the legend says that if an aspiring bluesman waits in a deserted country crossroads in the heart of a night without moon, there is the possibility that Satan himself is present to grant him the guitar, to sign a deal with the soul of the musician and to guarantee in exchange for a life full of easy money, women and fame.
According to the "popular belief" the greater the ability of a musician, the higher the price paid, so an aura of sadness pervades the world of virtuoso musicians, all older and know each of them becoming aware and if they care in their own way. Jimmy Page did nothing to dispel certain myths, rumors and even ran the food. Horrible stories were slurred by a groupie the other, while Led Zeppelin's "looted" the city and quietly directed towards new goals. In short, all the courtesans of the rock from Los Angeles to New York had something to say about the qualities and specialties amateur Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin as cibassero of women and threw the bones out of the windows, as the girls went out at dawn stumbled from the hotels on the Sunset Strip, with lurid accounts of invocations spiritualism, palmistry, candle light, magic and endless sexual orgies. The "antics" by Led Zeppelin went down in history, reached extreme heights, however, supported by an equally high artistic level. They were a model of depravity, charisma, lust and excess for rock bands to come that they would be imitated but never equaled in the music, with songs and licks that never grow old, their albums are still in the catalog and can boast sales figures disgregatasi unthinkable for a band for over twenty years ago.
the light of day, they were all very nice, gentlemen, engaging stage presence, their concerts were endless, even 4-5 hours and the band performed on stage versions of their songs long and full of improvisations with respect to their version study, delivering the story a chance to perform live today is hard to find. Their strengths were the concerts always sold out, the group never appeared (almost) on TV no elbowing or gave interviews to finish the papers. The press at the time preferred the noble glamor of the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, but were rewarded by record sales and proceeds from the concert. The real strength of the promotional group was represented by the performance on stage but never simple entertainment events which bound the present, with rousing music and inventing the stereotype of rock gods in a kind of musical telepathy. The concert, in short, was also used as a test and experience the spectacle that presented itself before my eyes was incredible, devastating, relentlessly, the audience went wild rides in front of the majestic guitar Page, a manufacturer of authentic sounds, "A beautiful god descended to earth to play the guitar."
A majestic power that they are receiving on the skin and ears, an endless stream of adrenaline that blows my mind teenagers in the 70s
Everything was perfect, they were perfect, so much that, Led Zeppelin could not exist without any of the four components.
And history confirms this theory ... in 1980.
In September, the eve of yet another U.S. tour, John Bonham died choking, drug overdose alcohol
On 4 December, the press-the band's epitaph: "The loss of our friend and respect for his family, as well as the sense of unity that we have always felt, led us to decide that we can not continue as before. "
