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“Jimmy was still playing the Telecasters that he played in the Yardbirds. I laid it on him and said, ‘Try this out.’ I gave him a good deal, about 1,200 bucks”: How one of rock's most storied Les Pauls changed hands from one guitar hero to another

Page had known Joe Walsh, then a budding guitar hero with the James Gang, since his pre-Zeppelin days with the Yardbirds. And Walsh had a proposition for him

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"If you watch the video, you can see Jimmy dribbling onstage, Robert not hitting the notes, and me miming, playing the air." Phil Collins' memories of Led Zeppelin's "dark, sulphurous" reunion for Live Aid are brutal, and spare no-one

The prospect of Led Zeppelin reforming to play Live Aid, the biggest music event of the 1980s, sparked great excitement. But their return to the stage on July 13, 1985 did not work out as anyone had planned

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“John Bonham was at the bar drinking quadruple brandies. He just turned around and whacked Gary in the stomach”: The crazed tale of the Heavy Metal Kids, the cult rock’n’roll hooligans with a tragic TV star singer

The Heavy Metal Kids were the missing link between David Bowie and AC/DC

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"This riff was gonna be really intense, and probably pretty majestic as well, but quite intriguing”: How Jimmy Page created the Led Zeppelin classic Kashmir

"It kicked off with myself and John Bonham," he said

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"Vibrant, electric, mystical and powerful": Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes release cover of Led Zeppelin's The Lemon Song

The live version of The Lemon Song was recorded during a soundcheck and is taken from the expanded version of Live At The Greek

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‘Pallister had a cracking voice, but Parker, Keane and Irwin were hating it. All of the other lads were shuffling to the back, so I took the pressure off them’: Lee Sharpe recalls recording Man United's No.1 single

Manchester United hit the top of the pop charts in 1994 with their Come On You Reds single

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“Imagine not knowing Eric Johnson, Vai and Satriani and seeing this for the first time? It literally blows your mind”: Matteo Mancuso – 10 albums that changed my life

The Sicilian virtuoso salutes Jimmy Page's stylistic adventurism, the compositional genius of Pat Metheny and Al Di Meola, and declares Jaco Pastorius “the Jimi Hendrix of bass”

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"There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. I’ve only done a few bits and pieces, really": Play like Jimmy Page with this 5-point plan

Key techniques guitar players can learn from the Led Zeppelin legend

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Thirteen minutes of previously unseen Led Zeppelin footage has surfaced after lying in a drawer for 45 years

The holy grail footage of Led Zeppelin's final warm-up show before their historic Knebworth dates was shot in Denmark in 1979

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“The experience of our work with Jimmy in a vibrant, electric, mystical, and powerful perspective”: Unreleased Jimmy Page/Rich Robinson composition set to feature in upcoming deluxe version of Jimmy Page & the Black Crowes: Live at the Greek

The newly remastered set, Page says, provides a glimpse of “the full explosive passion and exciting energy of those alchemical moments”

Guitar World

"Do you know Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love?": Over in Santa Monica, a Lithuanian guitarist and a Ukrainian violinist are busking their way to YouTube fame and fortune

Meet Døvydas Maščinskas and Karolina Protsenko

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“Ritchie has firm ideas about how things should be, and there were things that we disagreed on”: Ritchie Blackmore once asked former Deep Purple bandmate Ian Gillan to join Rainbow

Gillan responded by asking Blackmore to join his solo band

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"Oh my God, this is mind-blowing": The makers of Becoming Led Zeppelin say they found some amazing unseen footage from later in the band's career

Becoming Led Zeppelin is in cinemas now

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“When we heard the album we were speechless!”: How Led Zeppelin's debut blew Peter Frampton away - and inspired countless guitarists

“It was another Sgt. Pepper moment,” Frampton said

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Becoming Led Zeppelin review – enjoyable retrospective will be met with a Whole Lotta Love

It’s hard not to head-bang along to the first authorised documentary about the heavy rock legends, but stopping the story in 1969 ignores the band’s more colourful years

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“Jimmy Page arrived carrying a Waitrose bag. I thought he’d brought sandwiches with him”: How new Becoming Led Zeppelin documentary nearly never happened

Turns out that getting the ever illusive rockers on the record required more than a little gentle persuasion

Evening Standard

Becoming Led Zeppelin review: revelatory documentary about a behemoth of a band

4/5 Filled with crowd-pleasing archive material, this documentary shows how Jimmy Page and co. took America first

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"I wondered if he had brought sandwiches": Jimmy Page only agreed to take part in the Led Zeppelin movie after a seven-hour meeting and an unexpected trip to a boathouse

Filmmaker Bernard MacMahon has revealed the lengths he went to to get Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones involved in Becoming Led Zeppelin

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“We're gonna play something we thought was appropriate for the evening”: Watch Slash join the Black Crowes for a heartfelt Led Zeppelin cover at star-studded FireAid benefit concert

Unlike the surviving members of Nirvana, the Black Crowes were featured on the FireAid bill beforehand, but they had a surprise of their own up their sleeves

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“Who’s Jimmy Page? Never heard of him!”: The joke that backfired on a band that sounded a whole lot like Led Zeppelin

“Of course it was meant ironically…”

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The 10 worst Led Zeppelin songs of all time, because not every Led Zeppelin song can be as good as Kashmir

Led Zeppelin may be the greatest rock band of all time, but they weren't perfect – and here's the proof

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“It was devastating!”: Robert Plant recalls the first time Led Zeppelin played together in new documentary teaser

Becoming Led Zeppelin opens on 5 February

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“I was on my way to Vegas to marry a French boy, who was asleep on my lap, and I was listening to this song thinking, I'm living the dream. Then he woke up and said, I can't marry you.” Du Blonde on the eight songs that changed her life

From Joni Mitchell to David Bowie via Billy Bragg, Led Zeppelin and Frank Zappa, here are eight songs that made Du Blonde the bold and brilliant artist that she is

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“You only get caught when you’re successful”: Robert Plant and Jimmy Page on the time Willie Dixon came calling for his Whole Lotta Love songwriting credit

It’s 40 years ago this weekend that the veteran bluesman took action against the rock icons for borrowing his song...

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“We jammed with Zeppelin. John Bonham said, ‘Let’s play that song of yours I like.’ That was Supernaut”: Tony Iommi on the rivalry between Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin – and their lost jam session

Did the world miss out on a Black Sabbath/Led Zeppelin supergroup?

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