With the dawn of 2024 looms a significant milestone — Led Zeppelin’s visionary guitarist Jimmy Page turns 80 on January 9. Volumes have chronicled how Page both refined and reframed the role of electric guitar in modern rock. Making his bones as a shit hot session man in the 60s, Page joined The Yardbirds, emerging as a bona fide star in his own right, but it was his formation of Led Zeppelin that galvanised Page’s legend as the preeminent rock guitarist of his generation. With a catalogue dominated by some of the greatest riffs in rock history, here are his ten best:
