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Jimmy Page, OBE was born on the 9th of January 1944. His career started off as a session guitarist in London. This then lead on to him becoming a member of The Yardbirds, from late 1966 to 1968, before founding the English rock band Led Zeppelin.

Before getting into his own bands, Jimmy did loads of session work. He was talent scouted by John Gibb of EMI records who wanted him to work on a number of singles for them. He was then offered a position with Decca records which gave him even more session work. Jimmy became a full time session guitarist and his work included Marianne Faithfull’s “As Tears Go By”, The Nashville Teens’ “Tobacco Road”, The Rolling Stones’ “Heart of Stone” (alternate version), Van Morrison & Them’s “Baby Please Don’t Go” and “Here Comes the Night”, Dave Berry’s “The Crying Game” and “My Baby Left Me”, and Brenda Lee’s “Is It True”.

In 1968 Page joined Led Zeppellin along with Robert Plant (vocals), John Paul Jones (bass guitar / keyboards) and John Bonham (drums). The groups roots can be traced to the Yardbirds which Page previously played bass guitar and then second lead guitar along with Jeff Beck. With their first album not yet released, Led Zeppelin made their live debut at the University of Surrey, Guildford on October 15, 1968.

The self titled debut album was released in 1969. It is often described as one of the first heavy metal albums, however Robert Plant has said that this is not really fair as a large amount of the album is acoustic.

Jimmy Page’s guitar style continues to be a major influence of modern music. His solo in the massively famous “Stairway to Heaven” has been voted by readers of various guitar magazines, including Guitar World and Total Guitar, as the greatest guitar solo of all time.

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