Jimmy Page - Academy of Achievement

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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. A self-taught prodigy who began performing publicly at 13, by his early 20s he was one of the most sought-after session guitarists in London, recording with nearly every major name in British pop and rock. After a stint touring and recording with blues-rock pioneers The Yardbirds, Page set out to create a new group of his own. With Led Zeppelin, Page combined electric blues, folk, and rock and roll with his guitar pyrotechnics and innovative recording techniques to create a sound unlike any other. Zeppelin’s incendiary live shows set an unsurpassed standard of musical excitement, and multiple generations of listeners have thrilled to Jimmy Page’s powerful and melodic playing, from pedal-to-the-metal rockers like “Whole Lotta Love” and “Kashmir” to the epic “Stairway to Heaven.” "/> <link rel="canonical" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jimmy-page/"/> <meta property="og:locale" content="en_US"/> <meta property="og:type" content="article"/> <meta property="og:title" content="Jimmy Page - Academy of Achievement"/> <meta property="og:description" content="<div class="page" title="Page 41"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> 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. A self-taught prodigy who began performing publicly at 13, by his early 20s he was one of the most sought-after session guitarists in London, recording with nearly every major name in British pop and rock. After a stint touring and recording with blues-rock pioneers The Yardbirds, Page set out to create a new group of his own. With Led Zeppelin, Page combined electric blues, folk, and rock and roll with his guitar pyrotechnics and innovative recording techniques to create a sound unlike any other. Zeppelin’s incendiary live shows set an unsurpassed standard of musical excitement, and multiple generations of listeners have thrilled to Jimmy Page’s powerful and melodic playing, from pedal-to-the-metal rockers like “Whole Lotta Love” and “Kashmir” to the epic “Stairway to Heaven.” </div> </div> </div>"/> <meta property="og:url" content="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jimmy-page/"/> <meta property="og:site_name" content="Academy of Achievement"/> <meta property="og:image" content="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/page-jimmy-Feature-Image-2800x1120.jpg"/> <meta property="og:image:width" content="2800"/> <meta property="og:image:height" content="1120"/> <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary"/> <meta name="twitter:description" content="<div class="page" title="Page 41"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> 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. 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<div class="col-lg-8 col-lg-offset-2"> <div class="banner__image__container"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418/https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/what-it-takes/id1025864075?mt=2" target="_blank"> <figure class="ratio-container ratio-container--square bg-black"> <img class="lazyload banner__image" data-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/WhatItTakes_page-jimmy-256-190x190.jpg" alt=""/> </figure> </a> </div> <div class="banner__text__container"> <h3 class="serif-3 banner__headline"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418/https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/what-it-takes/id1025864075?mt=2" target="_blank"> Listen to this achiever on <i>What It Takes</i> </a> </h3> <p class="sans-6 banner__text m-b-0"><i>What It Takes</i> is an audio podcast on iTunes produced by the American Academy of Achievement featuring intimate, revealing conversations with influential leaders in the diverse fields of endeavor: music, science and exploration, sports, film, technology, literature, the military and social justice.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <header class="editorial-article__header col-md-8 col-md-offset-2 text-xs-center"> <i class="icon-icon_bio text-brand-primary"></i> <h3 class="serif-3 quote-marks">Let’s be perfectly honest about this. When I formed Led Zeppelin, I formed it with the idea and ethos that it was going to change music. That’s what I wanted to do, and it clearly did. It clearly did.</h3> </header> </div> <div class="row"> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar clearfix"> <h2 class="serif-3 p-b-1">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame</h2> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Birth</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> January 9, 1944 </dd> </div> </aside> <article class="editorial-article col-md-8"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_42015" style="width: 407px" class="wp-caption alignright"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42015 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/jimmy-page-13.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42015 lazyload" alt="" width="407" height="590" data-sizes="(max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px" data-srcset="/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/jimmy-page-13.jpg 407w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/jimmy-page-13-262x380.jpg 262w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/jimmy-page-13.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">1957: 13-year-old James Patrick Page in Epsom, Surrey.</figcaption></figure><p>James Patrick Page was born in Heston, a suburb of London, but at age eight, he moved with his family to Epsom, Surrey.  In the new house, he found an acoustic guitar abandoned by a visitor or a previous occupant.  The popularity of Elvis Presley and the British folksinger Lonnie Donegan inspired young Jimmy to take up the guitar.  With the aid of a school friend and instruction manuals, he set out to master the instrument, studiously imitating the licks of rockabilly pickers Scotty Moore and James Burton, and blues players Elmore James and B.B. King. The young Page took advantage of the skiffle craze — an up-tempo take on American folk music — to form a band with some older teenagers. At age 13, he appeared with his band on the BBC’s <em>All Your Own</em> program, featuring young people with interesting hobbies. The son of a personnel manager and a doctor’s secretary, Page briefly considered a professional career in science, but music soon took first place among his interests. He played on street corners, in social clubs, anywhere he could find an audience.</p> <p>After leaving school, Page joined a touring band, Neil Christian and the Crusaders, and made his commercial recording debut at age 18 on the Crusaders single, “The Road to Love.” The teenage Page’s career as a touring musician was cut short by mononucleosis. The recurring infection made it impossible for him to travel, and he enrolled in Sutton Art College to study painting and design. While studying in Sutton, he continued to practice guitar and to sit in with other musicians in London’s burgeoning blues scene.  At the Marquee Club, he jammed with the seminal British blues bands Cyril Davies All-Stars and Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated, trading licks with his friends Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton.</p> <figure id="attachment_42019" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42019 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-475576459.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42019 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="2286" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-475576459.jpg 2280w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-475576459-190x190.jpg 190w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-475576459-380x380.jpg 380w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-475576459-758x760.jpg 758w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-475576459.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">1963: British rock group Carter-Lewis and the Southerners, featuring guitarist Jimmy Page (left), Ken Lewis, John Carter, and Viv Prince outside the British Museum in London. (Photo by Mark and Colleen Hayward/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure><p>Following the international success of The Beatles, Britain’s music scene was exploding. The high expense of session time in London’s limited number of recording studios created an urgent demand for musicians who could learn new songs quickly, create arrangements on the spot, and play without mistakes. Page’s versatility and clean technique brought invitations to record with groups and singers at Columbia and Decca Records. As his health recovered, Page performed with a few touring groups, including Carter-Lewis and the Southerners, but as his reputation spread, he found himself in constant demand as a session guitarist. Setting aside his art studies and live performance commitments, Jimmy Page became a full-time studio musician, playing as many as three sessions a day, six days a week.</p> <figure id="attachment_42017" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42017 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-112648647_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42017 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="2159" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-112648647_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-112648647_master-380x360.jpg 380w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-112648647_master-760x720.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-112648647_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">1967: The Yardbirds, from left to right: Jim McCarty, Jimmy Page, Keith Relf and Chris Dreja. The band launched the careers of influential guitarists of the rock era: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page. (Credit: Jan Persson)</figcaption></figure><p>Often he was brought in as insurance, in case a less experienced guitarist was unable to complete the recording in the time allotted. He played on the first records of rising groups like The Kinks and The Who and accompanied singers Marianne Faithfull, Petula Clark and Donovan on some of the biggest hits of the era. As he mastered studio recording techniques, he was called on to produce sessions and to serve as an A&R man or talent scout.</p> <p>In the quickly changing music scene of the era, Page was itching to get out of the studio and try some of the new techniques he had acquired before a live audience.  When one member of the pioneering blues-rock outfit The Yardbirds left the band, Page joined up, playing alongside his old friend Jeff Beck.  Page recorded one album with the band, toured the United States, and appeared with them in the feature film <em>Blow-Up</em>, but the band had run its course and Page was left on his own to fulfill a series of scheduled concert dates.</p> <figure id="attachment_42022" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42022 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-84848514_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42022 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="2269" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-84848514_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-84848514_master-190x190.jpg 190w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-84848514_master-380x378.jpg 380w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-84848514_master-760x756.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-84848514_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">December 1968: Led Zeppelin, from left to right: drummer John Bonham, guitarist Jimmy Page (bottom), bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones (top), and singer Robert Plant in London. (Photo credit: Dick Barnatt/Redferns)</figcaption></figure><p>Page’s recording sessions and A&R work had introduced him to the best musicians on the scene and he quickly assembled a new group, choosing a team of musical heavyweights to carry out the challenging ideas he had been developing since his studio days. Page recruited the powerful drummer John Bonham, versatile bass and keyboard player John Paul Jones, and an unknown singer named Robert Plant, with a soaring voice and a compelling stage presence. Page’s quartet completed a few tour dates as The New Yardbirds before adopting a name first suggested by The Who’s drummer, Keith Moon: Led Zeppelin.</p> <figure id="attachment_42025" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42025 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-Led-Zeppelin-1969.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42025 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="2228" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-Led-Zeppelin-1969.jpg 2280w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-Led-Zeppelin-1969-380x371.jpg 380w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-Led-Zeppelin-1969-760x743.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-Led-Zeppelin-1969.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">January 1969: Led Zeppelin releases their eponymous debut album in the United States and the UK in March. The album is widely regarded as “marking a significant turning point in the evolution of hard rock and heavy metal.”</figcaption></figure><p>The new group recorded their self-titled debut album in only nine days, with Page producing and assuming the costs of production. Released by Atlantic Records in 1969, <em>Led Zeppelin</em> immediately struck a chord with listeners in the United States.  Page had deliberately recorded extended arrangements of his songs to take advantage of the new format of FM radio in the United States. A first American tour drew large crowds, and over the next decade, Led Zeppelin would become the world’s top concert attraction. Led Zeppelin’s deal with Atlantic gave the group unprecedented freedom over what and when to record and perform, as well as control of their album art and promotion. In a departure from standard practice, the next two albums were all called <em>Led Zeppelin</em> and differentiated by Roman numerals, II and III.</p> <figure id="attachment_42028" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42028 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-56223262.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42028 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="3139" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-56223262.jpg 2280w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-56223262-276x380.jpg 276w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-56223262-552x760.jpg 552w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-56223262.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">May 18, 1975: Wearing a suit decorated with Oriental dragon motifs, guitarist Jimmy Page plays a double-necked, six- and twelve-string guitar during a Led Zeppelin concert at Earl’s Court in London. Drummer John Bonham is visible on the left. Page’s Gibson EDS-1275 Doubleneck guitar — made famous for its stage usage on “Stairway to Heaven” — allowed him to avoid switching guitars mid-song. (Photo by Graham Wiltshire/Hulton Archive/Getty)</figcaption></figure><p>While the first two albums emphasized electric blues and hard rock workouts like the hit “Whole Lotta Love,” <em>Zeppelin III</em> (1970) featured more acoustic textures and folk influences. Led Zeppelin’s fourth album — often called <em>Led Zeppelin IV,</em> although the actual package features no title at all — introduced a composition that would become the band’s most enduring classic, and features one of the most celebrated guitar solos in the history of rock, “Stairway to Heaven.”</p> <figure id="attachment_42034" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42034 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-544871441_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42034 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1535" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-544871441_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-544871441_master-380x256.jpg 380w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-544871441_master-760x512.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-544871441_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">1975: Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant (left) and Jimmy Page performing at Earl’s Court in London. (Michael Putland)</figcaption></figure><p>More record-breaking tours and hit albums followed, including <em>Houses of the Holy</em> (1973) and <em>Physical Graffiti (1975)</em>, which features one of Page’s most adventurous compositions, the exotic “Kashmir.” The band’s three sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden in 1973 were filmed. The edited footage was released in 1976 as the concert film <em>The Song Remains the Same</em>.  By 1974, all of the band’s previous albums were in the Top 200, the band had played to the largest audiences ever recorded in both the U.S. and Britain, and were the most popular rock band in the world, eclipsing friends and rivals like The Who and the Rolling Stones. The 1976 albums <em>Presence</em> and <em>In Through the Out Door</em> (1979) were also bestsellers. All nine of the band’s studio albums made the Billboard Top 10, and six were number one bestsellers in the United States.</p> <figure id="attachment_42032" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42032 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-82535355_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42032 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1507" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-82535355_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-82535355_master-380x251.jpg 380w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-82535355_master-760x502.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-82535355_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">August 24, 2008: British singer Leona Lewis and guitarist Jimmy Page perform in the closing ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. (Photo by Paul Gilham/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure><p>In the summer of 1980, drummer John Bonham collapsed onstage during a performance in Nuremberg, Germany.  Following a rehearsal that autumn, Bonham, who had been drinking heavily, died in his sleep at Page’s home in Windsor.  Rather than replace their late bandmate, the group canceled a scheduled tour and officially dissolved. The surviving members of the group have reunited periodically for benefit performances, often accompanied by John Bonham’s son, Jason, on drums.</p> <figure id="attachment_42031" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42031 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-AP_965221447560.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42031 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1413" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-AP_965221447560.jpg 2280w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-AP_965221447560-380x236.jpg 380w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-AP_965221447560-760x471.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-AP_965221447560.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">December 2012: President Barack Obama with the Kennedy Center Honors recipients: Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, and keyboardist and bassist John Paul Jones, prima ballerina Natalia Makarova, comedian and television host David Letterman, actor and director Dustin Hoffman and bluesman Buddy Guy at a reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo)</figcaption></figure><p>Since the dissolution of Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page has engaged in a variety of musical projects, including composing music for the films <em>Death Wish II</em> and <em>Scream for Help</em>.  He recorded a new album with Robert Plant in 1984 as The Honeydrippers, and toured and recorded two albums with vocalist Paul Rodgers as The Firm. Page appeared as a guest artist on records by former bandmates, including Plant, members of The Yardbirds, and with the Rolling Stones. Page and Plant’s acoustic performance on MTV’s <em>Unplugged</em> received the highest ratings in the network’s history.  Page and Plant toured to support the CD release of the session <em>No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded</em>.</p> <figure id="attachment_40708" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-40708 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp2-LondonSummit_0058.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-40708 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1824" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp2-LondonSummit_0058.jpg 2280w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp2-LondonSummit_0058-380x304.jpg 380w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp2-LondonSummit_0058-760x608.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp2-LondonSummit_0058.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Awards Council member Tony Fadell presents the American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award to guitarist and Led Zeppelin founder Jimmy Page during the 2017 International Achievement Summit in London.</figcaption></figure><p>Jimmy Page has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, in 1992 as a member of The Yardbirds, and in 1995 with Led Zeppelin. In 2005, Page was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, in recognition of his services to charity. When Page, Plant, Jones and Jason Bonham played a one-night charity concert at London’s O2 Arena in 2007, the venue received 20 million requests for tickets.  At the closing ceremony of the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing, Page rode into the stadium on a double-decker flatbed truck to play “Whole Lotta Love.” In 2012, Page and his Led Zeppelin bandmates received the Kennedy Center Honors from President Barack Obama in a ceremony at the White House.  After more than half a century of making music, Jimmy Page continues to tend Led Zeppelin’s legacy as new generations discover his music and musicians of all ages study and learn from his work to pursue their own musical expression.</p> </body></html> <div class="clearfix"> </div> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" id="profile" role="tabpanel"> <section class="clearfix"> <header class="editorial-article__header"> <figure class="text-xs-center"> <img class="inductee-badge" src="/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/themes/aoa/assets/images/inducted-badge@2x.png" alt="Inducted Badge" width="120" height="120"/> <figcaption class="serif-3 text-brand-primary"> Inducted in 2017 </figcaption> </figure> </header> <div class="row"> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar"> <dl class="clearfix m-b-0"> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Career</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> <div><a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/#filter=.musician">Musician</a></div> </dd> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Birth</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> January 9, 1944 </dd> </div> </dl> </aside> <article class="col-md-8 editorial-article clearfix"> <div class="page" title="Page 41"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>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.</p> <p>A self-taught prodigy who began performing publicly at 13, by his early 20s he was one of the most sought-after session guitarists in London, recording with nearly every major name in British pop and rock. After a stint touring and recording with blues-rock pioneers The Yardbirds, Page set out to create a new group of his own.</p> <p>With Led Zeppelin, Page combined electric blues, folk, and rock and roll with his guitar pyrotechnics and innovative recording techniques to create a sound unlike any other. Zeppelin’s incendiary live shows set an unsurpassed standard of musical excitement, and multiple generations of listeners have thrilled to Jimmy Page’s powerful and melodic playing, from pedal-to-the-metal rockers like “Whole Lotta Love” and “Kashmir” to the epic “Stairway to Heaven.”</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" id="interview" role="tabpanel"> <section class="clearfix"> <div class="col-md-12 interview-feature-video"> <figure> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/WZQ8oSuq4Kg?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Page-Jimmy-2017-MasterEdit.00_14_03_13.Still014-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Page-Jimmy-2017-MasterEdit.00_14_03_13.Still014-760x428.jpg"></div> <div class="video-tag sans-4"> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> <div class="video-tag__text">Watch full interview</div> </div> </div> </figure> </div> <header class="col-md-12 text-xs-center m-b-2"> <i class="icon-icon_bio text-brand-primary"></i> </header> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar"> <h2 class="serif-3 achiever--biography-subtitle">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame</h2> <div class="sans-2">London, England</div> <div class="sans-2">October 18, 2017</div> </aside> <article class="editorial-article col-md-8">   <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>From the end of the Yardbirds to starting Led Zeppelin, that all happened very fast, didn’t it?</strong></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/2mVbBVEYXfs?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Page-Jimmy-2017-MasterEdit.00_25_03_08.Still011-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Page-Jimmy-2017-MasterEdit.00_25_03_08.Still011-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>Jimmy Page: The Yardbirds do their last date — I think it’s the beginning of July, and during August I managed to find — yeah, like, the first of July or something — during August, I’ve managed to work — I find Robert Plant, and I work with Robert Plant. I get him to my house, and I play him various ideas of things that I want to do on this album because I had a very clear idea of what would work at that point of time with the FM radio in America. They were just about getting to the point where they were playing whole sides of albums. I realized that if you had an album that had each track almost setting up — as you would listen to one track it would set up the second track because it — there would be such a diversity upon the album of different styles and different moods that it would capture people’s imagination when they listened to it. And now we had the vehicle, with the FM radio, to be able to do that.</p> <p>So, yeah, I had very clear ideas of the material that I wanted to do, and I’d written <em>Communication Breakdown</em>. I had the whole chart, really, for <em>Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You.</em> And yes, I worked with him, and it was just he and I, and I played him some material that I’d done with The Yardbirds, like <em>Dazed and Confused</em>, and he recommended a drummer. That was John Bonham, and then I’d seen John Bonham play, and I <em>felt</em> him play, actually. It was quite an experience. And he was playing with a musician called Tim Rose, who wrote — he wrote <em>Morning Dew</em>. I think he might have written <em>Hey, Joe,</em> as well, that Jimi Hendrix did. So there were now sort of a possible three, and John Paul Jones heard I was getting a band together and called me out and said, “I hear you’re putting a band together. Would you consider me on bass?” And I said, “Okay, marvelous,” because I had played with him in the studios in various sessions. Robert had had a short time when he played with John Bonham, but John Bonham was off and, you know, playing around and starting to make a name for himself outside of Birmingham. And we just — we had this one rehearsal in a small rehearsal room, not as large as this room even, and we all knew instinctively from that point that we’d never felt anything like that before because it was four musical equals with this sort of communion.</p> <p>And from that point I got everybody to come to my house and we started rehearsing and recording. And as I say, it’s a very fast route because it’s — Yardbirds break up in July, August rehearsals. We’re actually recording by the end of September, and we’ve done some dates in Scandinavia, which were a handful of dates, but it was good as a team, to be able to play the material live. And we had a set together of other material, as well as our own material so that we could do that in front of an audience before we went in to record. So we could keep the thing really fresh, but any alterations we needed to make we could do, rather than waste lots of time in the studio. And so the first album was done in collectively 30 hours from the time that we went in there and mixed it. So that’s pretty extraordinary!</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body> <figure id="attachment_42038" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42038 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-84850944_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42038 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="2417" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-84850944_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-84850944_master-358x380.jpg 358w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-84850944_master-717x760.jpg 717w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-84850944_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">December 1968: Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page in London. After the break-up of The Yardbirds in the summer of 1968, Jimmy Page assembled a new band, The New Yardbirds, with bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, singer Robert Plant, and drummer John Bonham. The band embarked on a Scandinavian tour, and upon their return to the UK, recorded their first album and changed their name to Led Zeppelin. (Photo by Dick Barnatt/Redferns)</figcaption></figure><p><strong>How did you come up with the name Led Zeppelin?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: It was a name that Keith Moon had mentioned some time back, and I asked him — or he was talking, you know, about, “Wouldn’t it be fun to have a band called Led Zeppelin?” And I asked him if we could use the name because I was going to be in this band of Led Zeppelin with Keith Moon. So was Jeff Beck. So, yeah, when we were playing in Scandinavia, we were out there as sort of New Yardbirds. It was a cloak of invisibility, really, and even on the first recordings, it said Yardbirds on the box because I didn’t want anybody to know what the name of the band was until we really officially unveiled it. That, basically, the album, was it, but we came over to the United States in — I think it was right on <span style="font-size: 1rem;">Christmas in 1968. And then we played some concerts, and then we came to the West Coast and played Los Angeles and the Fillmore. And what happened at the Fillmore was that we had an extra night put in, and we just tore it up. We tore it up. The bands that were supposed to be playing there didn’t come, and then we’re sort of jamming, and of course, we had this really hard set, and the whole of the United States got to hear about this group that now had the record out in the early part of January.  The record was being played all over the United States, and it was via radio because, of course, there wasn’t cell phones. There wasn’t the Internet. It was the word by radio that this band was just incredible, and as we moved across the United States we — by, say, March, you know, we were on the — maybe even before that, February, March — we were on the East Coast from the West Coast, and people were just coming and just coming to see us.</span></p> <p>It was incredible because the reception was amazing, and it was incredible, but here comes the interesting thing, was that from that point onwards we were never able to satisfy the demand of people that came to see us. We would all — and we were doing multiple shows in cities, and we would still just sell out, sell out over all the years that we played, so that was pretty good. Pretty good sort of CV, really.</p> <p><strong>That time —1968 — was such a tumultuous year in the United States. How do you think the times influenced your music? </strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: I remember being with The Yardbirds and passing the hotel where Martin Luther King had been at that time that he’d been assassinated. He’d stayed at the hotel, and the times were so — was such an upheaval, and it — and there was so much with the loss of the Kennedys as well, you know? That suddenly it was just becoming — it was becoming serial — on the serial nature, and it was just so distressing for the people of the time that had so much hope. And I must say it was — there were mixed audiences. I can tell you that much. That there were mixed audiences, black and white. You’d see the number of black people come to the concerts. Once Martin Luther King got shot that changed. That changed. You didn’t see it so much.</p> <p>There had been such a positive movement. I know we can all laugh about the Flower Power movement but peace and love was certainly something that we could all benefit by and live by, that’s for sure, and the protests for the Vietnam War were profound, absolutely. How it affected the music was you were a product of the times at that time. Now as far as the music went at the time…</p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/rOfcoHMjh30?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Page-Jimmy-2017-MasterEdit.00_25_43_11.Still005-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Page-Jimmy-2017-MasterEdit.00_25_43_11.Still005-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/vision/">Vision</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>I wanted to make something which was really new insomuch that there would be four superstars in the band that they — if you listened to the records you would be able to listen to it and then — playing as an ensemble — or you could listen to it and just listen to what the drummer is doing. Or you could just listen to what the guitarist is doing, or the bass, or the keyboard, or the vocals. You can just appreciate exactly what that input is because it wasn’t just one superstar with a collective. This was exactly what I wanted to do, so the music will actually work at counterpoint. And that’s exactly what it was. So it was something — within the music something really new, something for people to be able to enjoy and connect with because in those days that’s what people had, was their music. They really — it wasn’t like things are today. They didn’t have so many things to amuse them, but music was what they really followed and what they really enjoyed. That was their release, and also, if a band — if they followed a band and the band was to fragment and one member would have a band over here, another over here, then they would follow them, and they would — you know, it was really, though — and so that was very helpful for me because with The Yardbirds I’d built up of a cult audience as a guitarist, you see.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><p>It was interesting because over here (in England) it was slow because we spent a lot of time in America. Because once that door — just sort of a glimmer of light behind that door opening, we sort of pushed it open and went in. And you were allowed to sort of — you were allowed to perform and play and be in America for up to six months in a year, but not beyond. So as we all know, it’s a massive continent, and we spent as much time as we could sort of, you know, trying to play in all manner of states.</p> <figure id="attachment_42036" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42036 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp2-GettyImages-72384813_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42036 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="3258" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp2-GettyImages-72384813_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp2-GettyImages-72384813_master-266x380.jpg 266w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp2-GettyImages-72384813_master-532x760.jpg 532w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp2-GettyImages-72384813_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">May 1969: Led Zeppelin performing at Fillmore East in the East Village area of New York City. From left to right: Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Bonham (drums). (Photo by Charles Bonnay/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty)</figcaption></figure><p><strong>How did it feel to walk on stage in those days?</strong></p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/6oRflPWeGBI?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Page-Jimmy-2017-MasterEdit.00_11_14_14.Still016-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Page-Jimmy-2017-MasterEdit.00_11_14_14.Still016-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>Jimmy Page: Certainly within the vehicle of Led Zeppelin there was so much improvisation that was employed within the framework of a number, and our sets went from — well, in those early days they were maybe an hour, hour and twenty minutes, to three hours, three-and-a-half hours, because we were jamming and we were making up music there and then on the spot, and — because the thing about the band was that you would have to be listening all the time to what everyone else was doing. So if I was to take a different shift, a different route on the guitar, they’d be with you like that, or if Robert was going to sort of sing — if you were going into a quiet passage and Robert would start singing something, you’d be straight with him on it with something that was new and you — new chord structures, and it was pretty — a pretty extraordinary thing. So it was — there were frameworks to numbers, but there were whole areas for improvisation. So prior to going on the stage you’d have to be very focused so that you could really — especially if it was starting with something like <em>Song Remains the Same</em>, which is a pretty testy song, and yeah, you’d need to be very focused to go on and kick off with something like that, but as I may have mentioned before, you wouldn’t know what was going to happen within those three hours because so many things would come up. And you wouldn’t necessarily remember everything that had gone on either, so it was pretty good. There were so many bootlegs that I managed to listen to with all these different concerts because there were — some of them really dramatically different from night to night, to hear just exactly how marvelous we were.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>The image of rock musicians, especially in that era, is people taking enormous amounts of drugs all the time. Was it like that?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: Well, unfortunately, we lost a lot of people, didn’t we, along the way. It was a sort of party time during the ’60s, that’s for sure, but it was pretty innocent, really. Although there were darker elements around, but I think we managed to steer clear of those things.</p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/IY5C5XOwilQ?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Page-Jimmy-2017-MasterEdit.00_31_37_01.Still010-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Page-Jimmy-2017-MasterEdit.00_31_37_01.Still010-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/passion/">Passion</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>Jimmy Page: The thing about the music was <em>that</em> was it. That was the intoxicant of the whole thing. It was something purely for the fact that if you’re playing for two-and-a-half hours, three hours, sometimes three-and-a-half hours, you’d build up so much adrenaline from that, that when you’d come off stage you couldn’t possibly just go home and sort of go to bed. So you would go out and you’d go to sort of maybe clubs or whatever, just to sort of start stabilizing again. So really the intoxicant was the music. There’s no denying that.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_42041" style="width: 2240px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42041 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-74277468_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-42041 lazyload" alt="" width="2240" height="3000" data-sizes="(max-width: 2240px) 100vw, 2240px" data-srcset="/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-74277468_master.jpg 2240w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-74277468_master-284x380.jpg 284w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-74277468_master-567x760.jpg 567w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-74277468_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">1970: Jimmy Page performing on stage. Led Zeppelin released four albums by 1971: <i>Led Zeppelin</i> (1969), <i>Led Zeppelin II</i> (1969), <i>Led Zeppelin III</i> (1970), and <em>Untitled</em> album (<i>Led Zeppelin IV</i>) (1971). (Michael Ochs Archives)</figcaption></figure><p><strong>How do you take care of yourself in that kind of situation?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: How do I take care of myself? Well, let’s see, I don’t drink alcohol. I think that makes quite a difference because it got to the point where I was in my 50s and I thought, “I’ve got a shot of getting to my 70s here if…” I wasn’t drinking alcohol to any excess, but I did — but I thought it was a good idea to stop drinking, and so that’s a good number of years ago now. And — yeah, and I used to smoke cigarettes, and I stopped smoking cigarettes, and so that was a bit of a sort of maintenance plan for the future! Actually, people drink in a totally different way now. They certainly do over here anyway (in England), unfortunately, to what we used to drink like when we were teenagers and in our 20s. But hangovers were sort of non-existent in your teens because you really didn’t drink very much, and then maybe when you were in your 30s you’d get a hangover, which would go into the following — start the following morning, and as the decades go by you’d be aware that if you’d had a sort of night of drinking it might even go into a second day. And I thought I didn’t enjoy that.   I didn’t like the idea of either having a drink or being — having a hangover and effects of it, and I just gave up on that idea.</p> <p>Led Zeppelin didn’t play many concerts after 1980, but one of the concerts that we played was actually ten years ago this December, in 2007 at the O2, and that was with the son of John Bonham playing the drums, and John Paul Jones himself, and Robert Plant. And that was an interesting concept because it was — we played for about two hours and twenty minutes, so it was still in the tradition of long sets. Not three-and-a-half hours, two hours and twenty minutes, and of course, you go on and you have to remember everything that you’re going to do, and you also need to have that — those areas where you can have free improvisation because it had to be true to the spirit of what the adventure was about in the first place. But no, I played that totally sober, just an example.</p> <p><strong>How did you go about writing, or creating, music? How do you foster creativity?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: Well, there’s no one size fits all on this. For example…</p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/FublCqMfVbI?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Page-Jimmy-2017-MasterEdit.00_25_21_07.Still006-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Page-Jimmy-2017-MasterEdit.00_25_21_07.Still006-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/vision/">Vision</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>Jimmy Page: Pretty much most of the time, if I wasn’t touring with Led Zeppelin, I would be working at home on the guitar. And I’d be working on pieces of music that I would sing and direct towards the next album — that would be recorded when that would come. And I had one piece of music that was an absolute epic, and I’d overlaid sort of bass and electric guitars. It was an acoustic guitar we used to start with, and a Mellotron, where — a Mellotron would allow you to play, on a keyboard way at the time, string sections and brass, etcetera. And I had this piece, and it was really quite ambitious at the time. And right at the very end of all this guitar noodling, there was this phrase, and it went [humming “Kashmir” phrase], and I thought, “That’s really wonderful. All this other stuff that you can — but that — that’s really interesting.” And so I started to play it, and I realized that you could play it in this sort of metric fashion, and it was almost like a round, where it would come ’round upon itself, and the — that first phrase — because it’s back to front from the way that it is on the record. I thought that, if that is played over this sort of metric riff with this cascading — and I thought at the time, brass — it’s going to be really interesting. And it’s “Kashmir,” of course. So — and I thought of that. I thought of that and its sort of — the density of it, and the — well, we’ll say the depth of that because the density comes more into something like “When the Levee Breaks.” That’s something which is really dense. But I visualized it with orchestra, right? So, yeah, I could see it and I could hear it. I could hear it.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><p>I think “When the Levee Breaks” is something which is really — it was groundbreaking at the time. I think the very first album of Led Zeppelin was — it changed everything, really, and the way that people recorded. Then they were — then they went into the world of ambient recording, yes, and the first album was full of so many ideas that hadn’t been done before. So that was — that has to be said that that’s on the top of the list, really, because without the first album there wouldn’t have been a second album.</p> <figure id="attachment_40719" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-40719 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0174.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-40719 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1824" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0174.jpg 2280w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0174-380x304.jpg 380w, /web/20190115052418im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0174-760x608.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-LondonSummit_0174.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Page addresses the delegates at the introductory dinner of the 2017 International Achievement Summit in London.</figcaption></figure><p><strong>Has music taken you places that you never thought you would go?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: Let’s be perfectly honest about this.  When I formed Led Zeppelin, I formed it with the idea and the ethos that it was going to change music. That’s what I wanted to do, and it clearly did. It clearly did, and it brought to the forefront these master craftsmen that were involved in that band. The interesting part of it all is that here I am, and here I am now. I was 24 when I formed that band. I’m 73 now, and the lifetime achievement of it is the fact that even from the time that that first album came out, even though I’ve been a studio musician and played on countless records and albums of a myriad of artists, and I’d played in The Yardbirds and did good work, but…</p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190115052418if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/1N35mwYSMiU?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Page-Jimmy-2017-MasterEdit.00_18_41_14.Still003-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Page-Jimmy-2017-MasterEdit.00_18_41_14.Still003-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/passion/">Passion</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>Jimmy Page: The amount of people that I’ve met throughout my life, from the age of 24, that said that Led Zeppelin music has meant so much to their lives. And that’s a wonderful thing, a remarkable thing, to know that you’ve — that you made a difference in people’s lives. But not only that. In parallel with that is the young musicians who I’ve been impressed by, the production techniques, by the guitar playing and the various styles of guitar playing, by the songwriting, and they’ve been inspired to be musicians themselves. And that’s a wonderful legacy to have, to know that you’ve been able to do something which has made a change, something which was your hobby, something which was your passion, something which you believed in all the way through and you wouldn’t deviate from it. But the thing that you believe that you had to do is keep making an improvement on your own personal performance and what you could do in expanding the whole horizons of everything.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p>There’s so many different examples of that, and that’s very difficult to actually convey because it — I think music is something that you actually experience. You feel it on an emotional level as much as an intellectual level, but in a way it needs to be — it’s good to actually hear the music, to be able to give examples. But I know I’ve — I know instinctively that the various construction that was used in the music of Led Zeppelin, the sort of — like, example, a song like <em>Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You</em> or<em> </em><em>Ramble On</em>, has got, like, the acoustic guitar, and then it comes in through a full ensemble, a chorus — which you people would refer to that as a power chorus. Well, I know bands in the 1980s were using that technique. The whole approach to it, the whole taste that was employed, I think, has had a lot of appreciation.</p> <p><strong>Everyone has copied what you were doing. It was instantaneous.</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: Yeah. Well, I don’t know whether they copied it, but I learned records when I was a teenager, and so I wasn’t necessarily copying them, but I was learning, almost like an academic. I was learning, and then I was sort of recreating what they did. But then I started to try and do things in the spirit of what that was, or within that Chicago movement of the ’50s. That sort of thing, those sort of riffs that they did. It’s not necessarily copying, but people can definitely use it, the work that I’ve done, or that Led Zeppelin did. It’s a textbook, and it’s a jolly good textbook at that. So you don’t have to get the book <em>Play in a Day </em>now. You just can source it on the Internet.</p> </div>    <aside class="collapse" id="full-interview">    <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>So when did you first start playing the guitar?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: I guess we have to go back to when I was about twelve years old, and my parents moved house when I was about eight, and there was a guitar that was left behind at the house, and it was a campfire guitar. You know, the sort of cowboy one with this sort of hole, and it couldn’t be called a flamenco guitar. It had steel strings on it, which is pretty interesting, as normally if you found one of those guitars around it might have the nylon strings, but this had steel strings. And it, fortunately, didn’t get thrown away, so it had been there for quite a while at the house. And during that sort of time in the ’50s there had been the explosion of rock and roll with Elvis Presley and all this wonderful music that was coming from America with the rockabilly and this Little Richard sort of music, Jerry Lee Lewis, all this sort of wave of music.</p> <p>But over here in England there was also something called skiffle, and skiffle was something that you would actually see on the television performed by a man called Lonnie Donegan, and Lonnie Donegan was quite an inspiration I realize now, looking back, for all guitarists at that time, and he would be singing sort of songs or folk songs by Americans, a lot of American music, Leadbelly songs. And he’d be playing on the acoustic guitar and remarkable performances that sort of captured everybody’s imagination. So there was all this wonderful music coming from America, but on our television screens there was this man playing an acoustic guitar, like the campfire guitar that had been left behind at my house. And I managed to find somebody at school — there was only one other — well, one person who played the guitar, and he was actually one day on the school field playing these Lonnie Donegan songs.</p> <p>And I had a chat with him afterwards, and I said, “Well, I’ve got one of those at home,” and he said, “Bring it along to school and I’ll tune it up for you and show you a couple of chords.” So the playing-guitar point came from that sort of — there’s the intervention of the guitar and — it’s a sort of Excalibur, isn’t it? It’s just basically — but also the fact that this guy shows me some chords and I start playing. Because I don’t stop playing from that point. Even though I can only play one chord and the second chord, I’m just playing all the time until I learn some more chords and it just sort of keeps going on.</p> <p><strong>What do you mean you didn’t stop? Did you play for hours a day?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: I had to do my homework, my prep, but it got to the point where I was going to do a trade-up. I needed to get a guitar that was a little more user-friendly, let’s put it that way. And my father said, he said, “Well, I can see you’re coming on well with this.” He said, “I don’t understand it. I don’t understand what you’re doing, but I’m not going to get in the way of it.” And he actually helped me get the first guitar on from the campfire guitar. And he said, “Providing you keep up with your academic studies then that’s fine.” So we’ve brokered a deal right there on that first guitar that he helped get, and then sold two guitars.</p> <p><strong>How old were you then?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: I was about thirteen, I guess. Twelve or thirteen.</p> <p><strong>Did you keep up with your studies?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: I did. I sort of managed to get my sort of degrees, and they came in useful later because at another point I went to art college, and they held me in good stead to be able to use those qualifications of maths, English, biology, art, etcetera, you know.</p> <p><strong>You were only thirteen when you first appeared on television. What was that like? It must have been so nerve-wracking.</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: It really was. It really was, and the curious thing about the clip, it was for a program called <em>All Your Own</em>, and the — there was a name of the band, but actually I — I’ve actually got the script from the TV show, and it has various things that are going to be within the show of <em>All Your Own.</em> And it just said, “The Skifflers,” of which there must have been hundreds of skiffle groups in England at the time, but we’re just referred to as The Skifflers. Yeah, I was very, very nervous. Yeah, I can see how nervous I am when I see that clip because it was a big deal, and you’re going to be on television, which meant people at — your school friends would say, “Look, that’s the boys who’s at school. He’s always playing the guitar if he can get away with it.” You know, in lunch break, etcetera. I must say that it got to the point where my guitar was actually confiscated because I would take it to play it at — during recesses and breaks because I was that — so connected to the instrument. I was constantly wanting to practice on it and learn more things,</p> <p><strong>What did you love about the guitar?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: I just had a connection with it. I clearly did, and the fact that I could actually — but I could play a chord on it and that you’d just hear this thing going on, this wonderful resonance, and it’s a tactile instrument, as well. I’ve always thought that guitarists — and through the years that guitarists that you know in any field — well, I don’t know about classical so much, but certainly with an electric guitar also, if you had four guitarists that you know and a guitar and an amplifier there, they would come and play it. And they would sound exactly like they sound because of the tactile aspect of the instrument. It’s an incredible phenomenon, but it’s absolutely true, and yet I would play it and I wouldn’t sound like any of them. And it’s an extraordinary thing, but it has a lot to do with this tactile instrument.</p> <p><strong>And you never had lessons. You just taught yourself?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: I didn’t have lessons. I learned from a book called <em>Play in a Day</em>, and actually — I learned from <em>Play in a Day</em>, and many years later I became a studio musician, and the way that the notation was in <em>Play in a Day</em> was exactly the way they wrote out chord charts, so it was very useful, wasn’t it? Very useful.</p> <p><strong>Did you get the book at the library?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: No, you could buy it. You could buy it in music shops, which sold recordings and triangles and — not many guitars in those days. Not even acoustic classical guitars or whatever.</p> <p><strong>So after the talent show on the BBC, did you start playing live shows then?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: Well, I completed my studies at school, and I decided to dive right into music. I left school, and I was already playing in a group. I was playing in a group on weekends, and they were a London group, and I am — because I was living at Epsom, which is some distance. It wasn’t as though I was living in London, but I was headhunted out of Epsom to join this band, and I was still at school. And I was still doing my — approaching, fast approaching, my exams. So after my exams, we were able to do more concerts, and we were touring around all over England, really.</p> <p><strong>That must have been an enormous amount of fun.</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: It was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun until it got to the winter, and our van — well, we had to sort of drive between concerts, and the heater broke in the van, so you would come out of a very hot dance hall and sort of go into the van, and it was pretty uncomfortable, and I started to get a sequence of fevers. And it was purely because, you know, I wasn’t sort of dressing properly coming off of stage and going through winter nights and…</p> <p><strong>You were sick for more than a year, right? </strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: Well, no. It wasn’t quite as bad as that. But I was getting caught up with sort of fevers, and it was coming in the serial nature. I don’t think it was fair on the rest of the band, and one of the things that was quite interesting at that point was that the music that we were playing was in advance of what the popular taste was, and it was to catch up some sort of eighteen months, two years, later, which is quite a long time, really, in the way that music was moving really, really fast, and the way that fashion — musical fashion was changing and being explored and was opening up.</p> <p><strong>In what way were you ahead? </strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: We were playing in sort of town halls and dance halls and coal exchanges! All manner of venues, and the public that would come would come along to dance. Some would come to really listen intently to the music, but you were expected to play Top 20 hits. I think this reflects in The Beatles’ first album because you can hear that they’re doing covers in those — in the first album — and that’s clearly the sort of things that they were doing in live shows. We, though, we were doing the Chess (Records) catalogue from Chicago, so we were doing Chuck Berry songs, and yeah, it was in advance of the musical taste of what was going on. And so, yeah, I began to play harmonica as well as guitar. I was always playing acoustic guitar, as well as electric, right? So I became quite a sort of all-around musician. I really paid a lot of attention to the blues. Well, you had to if you were going to play harmonica. And I went to art college anyway. I decided to make a hiatus and go to art college,</p> <p><strong>Were you painting? What were you doing then?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: At the art college I was, yes. Yes, I was doing a foundation course. So I was painting, graphic design, and I really enjoyed my time at art college. It was really good.</p> <p><strong>Did you ever think at that point that maybe you should be a graphic designer, or do something else?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: Well, actually, I wanted to study fine arts and techniques of oil painting, and actually, in a foundation course at that time, it was the — you know, acrylic paints, and it wasn’t oil paints, and everything was, you know, what was currently, I guess, the fashionable media, as opposed to the oil painting.</p> <p>While I was at art college, I didn’t stop playing. I didn’t stop playing the electric guitar, and there was a club in London called the Marquee Club. It was a very famous club, and it was an R&B club, rhythm and blues, and I used to go along every Thursday night regularly to see the various artists who were there. And I met somebody who had been in a previous band, and he was a piano player and singer, and he said, “We could play the interval band here, if you want,” and I said, “Fine.” I mean, I’d never met him to this point, and I said, “Okay, let’s do that.” So every Thursday night I was playing in the interval band, and basically what happens at that point is that somebody asked me to play on a record, and I play on this record because I had a pretty distinctive guitar style. You could hear that it was a different guitar player within this recording, and I started to get lots of offers, but I’m still at art school college, but I’m getting lots of offers, and I’m fulfilling in the evenings doing these sessions and still completing my studies pretty much like I was a few years earlier where I was doing my academic subjects. But then we had a recess. It might have been the sort of Easter break or whatever, and I just had so many sessions coming my way. I was doing sessions in the morning from 10:00 to 1:00, 2:00 to 5:00, and 7:00 to 10:00 in multiple locations in London, like EMI, Decca, Pye, Phillips, and when it was time to go back to art college, I thought, “I can’t really do this. I’m not being honest, and somebody else could use my place there, and I’m having so much fun doing these recording sessions.”</p> <p>In those days what they would do, they would replace the drummer because the drums would take quite a while to get a balance in a recording studio, so they’d bring in a session drummer where they knew immediately what his sound was going to be. And I would be augmenting the group, so sometimes replacing the guitarist, and they would just ask me on certain circumstances just to play whatever you want to play, so it was invention and improvisation. So I had a good sort of year of doing that, and then they eventually — from these little chord charts in <em>Play in a Day</em> then I started to get some music notation, and basically what — it was a hinge. You’re really in. You’re really in this world, and you’re accepted, and we love you here and the part that you can play, because I could play so many different styles of music, see? And I was also being employed in that way, so folk music and pop music, rock and roll music, blues music.</p> <p><strong>You would just hear it, and then just decide on the spot what to play?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: Well, they would ask me to do so, otherwise I would play what was there, or it was pretty obvious what you had to do, but once you had the musical notation then I had to learn to read music very, very quickly, and curiously enough I met somebody last night, Dr. Luke, who’s a producer, yeah? And he was saying exactly the same thing happened to him, that he was doing sessions, and then he had to — but that was in America, but — and I would assume that he was more of a specialist player. But I was a complete all-rounder, you see.</p> <p>Somebody who I — when I was twelve years old and I had a homemade bass and he had a homemade guitar, and he was brought to my house by his sister, who was in art college in Epsom — was Jeff Beck. I’d known Jeff Beck, and I put Jeff Beck in for the role of The Yardbirds, and we were very, very good friends. And he would come and visit me, and we’d often — while I was in this whole incarnation of being a session musician, and he’d invited me to Yardbird shows — we’d also discussed the possibility that it would be really fun if we could both play together in a band on lead guitar, and have something in the style of the old big bands, like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, where you had the brass sections really, really strong, and with vibrant effect. And one night we went to Oxford — I think it was the Oxford Union dance, or it was May Ball or something like that — and that night there was a row with the band, and the bass player left the band, and they had to play the Marquee, this Marquee Club, and they didn’t have anybody, couldn’t work out who they were going to get to fill in on bass, so I volunteered to play bass. So that we could then mutate into this plan of having Jeff and myself on lead guitars, and the rhythm guitars would take over the bass duties, and that’s what happened.</p> <p>So then The Yardbirds continues on. Jeff leaves the group. I can tell you as a former, I must say that — well, I need to retrace the footsteps here. During the time that I was a studio musician it was a remarkable apprenticeship because the studio discipline that was — everything is literally within seconds on the clock. If the session was scheduled from 10:00 to 1:00, if the second hand went beyond then you would be in overtime, and so you had to be absolutely precise, and you had to be able to deliver all the time. If you hadn’t, you wouldn’t be seen again. There’d be somebody else coming. It’s a very closed shop, but I was fortunate enough to get in there,</p> <p><strong>Do you think you just have a gift? I mean, you had no lessons. You were able, on the fly, to listen to music and then to have your own distinctive twist on it. </strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: Yes, within the realms of improvisation, isn’t it? Really in creativity, yes. Yes, I did.</p> <p><strong>Did someone say that to you? You know, “You have a gift, Jimmy Page.” </strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: Well, I clearly did have a gift. Yeah.</p> <p><strong>Did you purposely try to change the parameters of music?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: When I was a studio musician I had done home recordings, where you overlay one guitar and another, this sort of thing that Les Paul would do, but of course it wasn’t anywhere near as sophisticated as Les Paul. I would hear things on records and sort of think I could work out how they were done, but now I had the opportunity to ask engineers how things were done. I could play records too and say, “How do you arrive at that? How is that effect done? Is that a natural echo chamber, or is it a fabricated spring reverb?” or whatever. I got to learn how to do microphone placings, which there’s a whole science to microphone placing, and I was a producer as well. So now I come out of that world. I’m an active musician in The Yardbirds but have a really, really good time. I’m starting to really enjoy myself and be able to try some of the more avant garde ideas with The Yardbirds even, like playing the guitar with a bow, etcetera.</p> <p>Having been a studio musician, I’d seen drummers really playing their hearts out, and they’d be in this little booth, which was totally dead so there was no sound reflective surfaces whatsoever, and it would just sound like they were hitting a suitcase. They were quite frustrated when they’d hear the drum sound, even though you weren’t party to hearing playbacks sometimes when you were a studio musician. Actually, you didn’t know who you were going to play with because they’d just come walking through the door. You were a hired hand, and so you didn’t really have any say, and the drummers wouldn’t be able to say, “Well, wouldn’t it be better if…” because that wasn’t necessarily your job unless you were asked to. So what I knew was that I could see what a frustrating role it would be for drummers, and a drum is an acoustic instrument, and it has a tone to it, and I knew that in the recordings that I loved from the past that there was certainly an ambience that was used in the drums. It wasn’t just a close mic and no ambience within a room. And certainly with the recording of John Bonham, who was a master craftsman and a genius of drum technique, and his technique of tuning the drums, you could hear them projecting, and it was so important to be able to capture that with overhead mics, you see? It’s not necessarily rocket science, but all of the work that I’d done in the studio, and especially the studio discipline, just really came out, so it was an apprenticeship.</p> <p><strong>How did you think to pick up a bow or some of these other innovations?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: This is an interesting story because the string sections really didn’t like the — I mean they had spent years mastering their bowing techniques, and there were these sort of people like drummers and bass players and guitarists, and I think they thought they just made a bit of a noise rather than music as they saw music. And one of the violinists came to me one day, and he said, “Have you ever considered playing — “ He just didn’t talk to the others. It was sort of them and us. “Have you ever considered playing the guitar with a bow?” And I said, “Well, I don’t think it’ll work, will it? Because the strings are uniform, whereas a violin is arched, or a cello is arched.” And he said, “Well, here’s my bow. Would you like to try?” And I said, “Absolutely.” So I tried it, and I could see there was massive potential, and after that I went and bought my own bow. But this fellow was the father of an actor, of David McCallum. <em>Man from U.N.C.L.E.</em> That’s it. So he was the father of <em>The Man from U.N.C.L.E.</em> He’s a very cool gentleman.</p> <p><strong>You’ve played so many memorable performances. Is there any one occasion that stands out in your mind?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: Something that stands out, because it was totally out of the area where I’d performed in the past, in any sort of stage — actually it wasn’t a stage. It was on top of a bus, a double-decker bus, and it was in Beijing in — at the Olympics, and it was the closing ceremony of the Olympics in 2008. And it was — they were passing over the baton, so to speak, to London, and I was there on behalf of London, and we — it was myself and a wonderful singer called Leona Lewis, and we performed “Whole Lotta Love<em>,”</em> and the full version of “Whole Lotta Love” as well, and it was pretty amazing to play in the stadium there, which, you know, is a bird’s nest. It was immense. It was a huge stadium, and I know it was being televised all over the world, and I knew there was just one guitarist there, and there was a heavy weight on his shoulders not to mess up, and — not to mess it up for Leona or anything else, and it was — and it went — it was marvelous, absolutely marvelous. So, you know, as far as doing things in your comfort zone and not in your comfort zone, that was challenging.</p> <p>Oh, and the other thing was that you had to be elevated up into the air, and that was interesting because I had a fear of heights before doing that, but I had to take that on, and I had a technique that I was shown whereby you can conquer that, so I thought that was rather interesting. Somebody took me to the Royal Garden Hotel, and we were standing on the ledge. It was, like, a — it was somebody who was a sort of hypnotist who was showing me some techniques, and it worked.</p> <p><strong>When you were a session musician, you played with a lot of the biggest stars on the scene. Can you talk about those days?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: As a studio musician I would be brought in to augment a band, and I worked with a producer, an American producer called Shel Talmy, and you didn’t know who you were — you’d just be asked to take your guitar and your amplifier to a studio, and then low and behold in comes a band called The Who. Now I’d seen The Who play at the Marquee Club, and I was — I thought, “What am I doing here?” Pete Townsend’s an amazing guitarist, and actually, I’m there on the first record, called “I Can’t Explain,” in the — playing the riff in the background. You can’t hear it, but I was on it, and it wasn’t necessary because Pete was flying during these — playing on the — on “I Can’t Explain,” but it was — you could imagine what the energy was like in that studio when that was being recorded, so that was marvelous to be part of that. I played on some various things with the Rolling Stones in the early days in the ’60s, where they were producing other artists and I was a studio musician, and I played on one of their albums. I played on the track called “One Hit (To The Body),” which was much later. That was in the ’80s. Played the lead guitar.</p> <p><strong>What a career!</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: It is, isn’t it? I’m very grateful. I’m just a very fortunate man to have been blessed with a gift within the area of performance that has brought so much happiness to people and inspiration to people, so it’s good. Now, you know, I’ll be passing on the baton now, like the baton was passed on at Beijing, so it’ll be like a sort of musical Olympics, won’t it?</p> <p><strong>How do you see music changing in the digital age?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: Well, it’s young musicians in the way that — you know, the whole generation and the phenomenon of musicians, or producers, who aren’t actually musicians, but they can process music and construct music with computers. It’s pretty extraordinary and amazing stuff, and it still comes down to the theme of the idea in the first place, and the imagination and imagining this and working towards it, and being able to manifest it. As far as the sort of tactile instruments, the acoustic instruments, there’ll always be fine musicians. It’ll always be new protégés, you know, in the field, obviously classical music, trained music, but also music which is sort of relatively untrained as well, you know. Yes, there will, which is sort of almost like a folk music because it comes from the people.</p> <p><strong>We look forward to the next thing you’re working on. </strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: Yes, indeed. There’ll be a Led Zeppelin product coming out for sure, and that people haven’t heard, because I’m working on that, and next year will be the 50th year. So there’s all manner of surprises coming out. And then I hope to be seen to be playing, so I’d better get on with it.</p> <p><strong>How do you feel about your old songs? Do you still like “Stairway to Heaven”?</strong></p> <p>Jimmy Page: Yes, I do. That was quite an achievement to have a record released in 1971 and people still refer to the solo as one of the best solos of all time, and it gets voted one of the best solos of all time over all the decades. I mean that’s pretty extraordinary stuff. Hmm. I may not be able to top that, you know. I’ve only got a few years left!</p> </div>  </aside>  <div class="read-more__toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#full-interview"><a href="#" class="sans-4 btn">Read full interview</a></div> </article> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" id="gallery" role="tabpanel"> <section class="isotope-wrapper">  <header class="toolbar toolbar--gallery bg-white clearfix"> <div class="col-md-6"> <div class="serif-4">Jimmy Page Gallery</div> </div> <div class="col-md-6 text-md-right isotope-toolbar"> <ul class="list-unstyled list-inline m-b-0 text-brand-primary sans-4"> <li class="list-inline-item" data-filter=".photo"><i class="icon-icon_camera"></i>12 photos</li> </ul> </div> </header> <div class="isotope-gallery isotope-box single-achiever__gallery clearfix"> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.3403880070547" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-74277468_master.jpg" data-image-caption="1970: Jimmy Page performing on stage. Led Zeppelin released four albums by 1971: <i>Led Zeppelin</i> (1969), <i>Led Zeppelin II</i> (1969), <i>Led Zeppelin III</i> (1970), and<i> Untitled</i> (<i>Led Zeppelin IV</i>) (1971). (Michael Ochs Archives)" data-image-copyright="Photo of Jimmy Page" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-74277468_master-284x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-74277468_master-567x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.0599721059972" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-84850944_master.jpg" data-image-caption="December 1968: Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page in London. After the break-up of The Yardbirds in the summer of 1968, Jimmy Page assembled a new band, The New Yardbirds, with bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, singer Robert Plant, and drummer John Bonham. The band embarked on a Scandinavian tour, and upon their return to the UK, recorded their first album and changed their name to Led Zeppelin. (Photo by Dick Barnatt/Redferns)" data-image-copyright="Photo of Jimmy Page - LED ZEPPELIN" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-84850944_master-358x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-84850944_master-717x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4285714285714" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp2-GettyImages-72384813_master.jpg" data-image-caption="May 1969: Led Zeppelin performing at Fillmore East in the East Village area of New York City. From left to right: Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Bonham (drums). (Photo by Charles Bonnay/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty)" data-image-copyright="01137922.JPG" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp2-GettyImages-72384813_master-266x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp2-GettyImages-72384813_master-532x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.67368421052632" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-544871441_master.jpg" data-image-caption="1975: Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant (left) and Jimmy Page performing at Earl’s Court in London. (Michael Putland)" data-image-copyright="Led Zeppelin At Earl's Court" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-544871441_master-380x256.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-544871441_master-760x512.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66052631578947" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-82535355_master.jpg" data-image-caption="August 24, 2008: British singer Leona Lewis and guitarist Jimmy Page perform in the closing ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. (Photo by Paul Gilham/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Olympics - Closing Ceremony" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-82535355_master-380x251.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-82535355_master-760x502.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.61973684210526" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-AP_965221447560.jpg" data-image-caption="December 2012: President Barack Obama with the Kennedy Center Honors recipients: Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, and keyboardist and bassist John Paul Jones, prima ballerina Natalia Makarova, comedian and television host David Letterman, actor and director Dustin Hoffman and bluesman Buddy Guy at a reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo)" data-image-copyright="wp-AP_965221447560" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-AP_965221447560-380x236.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-AP_965221447560-760x471.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.3768115942029" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-56223262.jpg" data-image-caption="May 18, 1975: Wearing a suit decorated with Oriental dragon motifs, guitarist Jimmy Page plays a double-necked, six- and twelve-string guitar during a Led Zeppelin concert at Earl’s Court in London. Drummer John Bonham is visible on the left. Page’s Gibson EDS-1275 Doubleneck guitar — made famous for its stage usage on “Stairway to Heaven” — allowed him to avoid switching guitars mid-song. (Photo by Graham Wiltshire/Hulton Archive/Getty)" data-image-copyright="Page On Stage" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-56223262-276x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-56223262-552x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.97763157894737" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-Led-Zeppelin-1969.jpg" data-image-caption="January 1969: Led Zeppelin releases their eponymous debut album in the United States and the UK in March. The album is widely regarded as “marking a significant turning point in the evolution of hard rock and heavy metal.”" data-image-copyright="January 1969: Led Zeppelin's eponymous debut album." data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-Led-Zeppelin-1969-380x371.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-Led-Zeppelin-1969-760x743.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.99473684210526" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-84848514_master.jpg" data-image-caption="December 1968: Led Zeppelin, from left to right: drummer John Bonham, guitarist Jimmy Page (bottom), bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones (top), and singer Robert Plant in London. (Photo credit: Dick Barnatt/Redferns)" data-image-copyright="Photo of LED ZEPPELIN" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-84848514_master-380x378.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-84848514_master-760x756.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.0026385224274" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-475576459.jpg" data-image-caption="1963: British rock group Carter-Lewis and the Southerners, featuring guitarist Jimmy Page (left), Ken Lewis, John Carter, and Viv Prince outside the British Museum in London. (Photo by Mark and Colleen Hayward/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Carter-Lewis And The Southerners" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-475576459-380x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-475576459-758x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.94736842105263" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-112648647_master.jpg" data-image-caption="1967: The Yardbirds, from left to right: Jim McCarty, Jimmy Page, Keith Relf and Chris Dreja. The band launched the careers of influential guitarists of the rock era: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page. (© Jan Persson/Redferns)" data-image-copyright="The Yardbirds In Copenhagen" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-112648647_master-380x360.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wp-GettyImages-112648647_master-760x720.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4496314496314" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/jimmy-page-13.jpg" data-image-caption="1957: Thirteen-year-old James Patrick Page in Epsom, Surrey." data-image-copyright="1957: 13-year-old Jimmy Page." data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/jimmy-page-13-262x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2018/01/jimmy-page-13.jpg"></div>  </figure>    </div> </section> </div> </div> <div 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Dell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ron-dennis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ron Dennis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/joan-didion/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Joan Didion</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/david-herbert-donald-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David Herbert Donald, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/david-doubilet/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David Doubilet</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/rita-dove/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Rita Dove</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sylvia-earle/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sylvia Earle, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/elbaradei/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mohamed ElBaradei</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/gertrude-elion/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/larry-j-ellison/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Larry J. Ellison</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/nora-ephron/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nora Ephron</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/julius-erving/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Julius Erving</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/tony-fadell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Tony Fadell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/paul-farmer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Paul Farmer, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/suzanne-farrell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Suzanne Farrell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/anthony-s-fauci-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sally-field/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sally Field</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/lord-norman-foster/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lord Norman Foster</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/aretha-franklin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Aretha Franklin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/milton-friedman-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Milton Friedman, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carlos-fuentes/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carlos Fuentes</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/athol-fugard/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Athol Fugard</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ernest-j-gaines/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ernest J. Gaines</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/william-h-gates-iii/"><span class="achiever-list-name">William H. Gates III</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/leymah-gbowee/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Leymah Gbowee</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frank-gehry/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank O. Gehry</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/murray-gell-mann-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Murray Gell-Mann, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carlos-ghosn/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carlos Ghosn</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/vince-gill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Vince Gill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ruth-bader-ginsburg/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/louise-gluck/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Louise Glück</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/whoopi-goldberg/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Whoopi Goldberg</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jane-goodall/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dame Jane Goodall</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/doris-kearns-goodwin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/mikhail-s-gorbachev/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mikhail S. Gorbachev</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/nadine-gordimer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nadine Gordimer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/stephen-jay-gould/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carol-greider-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carol Greider, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-grisham/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Grisham</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-john-gurdon/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir John Gurdon</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/dorothy-hamill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dorothy Hamill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/demis-hassabis-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Demis Hassabis, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/lauryn-hill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lauryn Hill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-edmund-hillary/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Edmund Hillary</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/reid-hoffman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Reid Hoffman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/khaled-hosseini/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Khaled Hosseini, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ron-howard/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ron Howard</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-hume/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Hume</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/louis-ignarro-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Louis Ignarro, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/daniel-inouye/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Daniel K. Inouye</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jeremy-irons/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jeremy Irons</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-irving/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Irving</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/kazuo-ishiguro/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Kazuo Ishiguro</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-peter-jackson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Peter Jackson</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/donald-c-johanson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Donald C. Johanson, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frank-m-johnson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank M. Johnson, Jr.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/philip-johnson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Philip C. Johnson</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/chuck-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Chuck Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/james-earl-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James Earl Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/quincy-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Quincy Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/beverly-joubert/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Beverly Joubert</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/dereck-joubert/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dereck Joubert</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/paul-kagame/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Paul Kagame</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/thomas-keller-2/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Thomas Keller</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/anthony-m-kennedy/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Anthony M. Kennedy</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/b-b-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">B.B. King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carole-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carole King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/coretta-scott-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Coretta Scott King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/henry-kissinger-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Henry A. Kissinger, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/willem-j-kolff/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Willem J. Kolff, M.D., Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/wendy-kopp/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Wendy Kopp</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/henry-r-kravis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Henry R. Kravis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/nicholas-d-kristof/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nicholas D. Kristof</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/mike-krzyzewski/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mike Krzyzewski</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ray-kurzwell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ray Kurzweil</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/eric-lander-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Eric S. Lander, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/robert-s-langer-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/richard-leakey/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Richard E. Leakey</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/leon-lederman-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Leon Lederman, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/robert-lefkowitz-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/congressman-john-r-lewis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Congressman John R. 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Scott Momaday, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/story-musgrave/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Story Musgrave, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ralph-nader/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ralph Nader</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/peggy-noonan/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Peggy Noonan</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jessye-norman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jessye Norman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20190115052418/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/tommy-norris/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lt. Thomas R. 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