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English guitarist (born 1944)

For the Scottish footballer, see Jimmy Page (footballer).

James Patrick PageOBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician and producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Prolific in creating guitar riffs, Page's style involves various alternative guitar tunings and melodic solos, coupled with aggressive, distorted guitar tones. It is also characterized by his folk and eastern-influenced acoustic work. He is notable for occasionally playing his guitar with a cello bow to create a droning sound texture to the music.

Page began his career as a studio session musician in London and, by the mid-1960s, alongside Big Jim Sullivan, was one of the most sought-after session guitarists in Britain. He was a member of the Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968. When the Yardbirds broke up, he founded Led Zeppelin, which was active from 1968 to 1980. Following the death of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, he participated in a number of musical groups throughout the 1980s and 1990s, more specifically XYZ, the Firm, the Honeydrippers, Coverdale–Page, and Page and Plant. Since 2000, Page has participated in various guest performances with many artists, both live and in studio recordings, and participated in a one-off Led Zeppelin reunion in 2007 that was released as the 2012 concert film Celebration Day. Along with the Edge and Jack White, he participated in the 2008 documentary It Might Get Loud.

Page is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time.Rolling Stone magazine has described Page as "the pontiff of power riffing" and ranked him number three in their 2015 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time", behind Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, and ranking 3rd again in 2023 behind Chuck Berry and Jimi Hendrix. In 2010, he was ranked number two in Gibson's list of "Top 50

I must admit that my most commercially successful book to date owes its popularity to the subject – a legendary rock star who’d long been an enigma to fans – more than the author.  In 2005 I had been shopping around a general overview of the classic rock genre for some time, but a Canadian literary agent I approached with my proposal offered me an opportunity to write something else for Hal Leonard, a US publishing house specializing in music.  An unauthorized biography of Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page?  A personal hero and influence on my amateur guitar playing since my teens?  For actual money?  Houses of the Holy Shit yeah!

The resultant work, Jimmy Page:  Magus, Musician, Man, was a strong seller in hardcover upon release in 2007, leading to a revised and updated paperback edition in 2009, and has subsequently been translated into Japanese and Polish.  Although there has since been issued a small library of Zeppelin-related titles (including two further biographies of Page himself), at the time there was precious little informative, adult text available on the topic, and Magus met a hitherto unmet demand among legions of Boomer and Gen X followers.  My goal with the book was to present a detailed summary of a life and oeuvre for a mature readership rather than the adolescent devotees who’d lapped up salacious fare like the big previous Zeppelin bio, 1985’s Hammer of the Gods (full disclosure:  I was one of them).  In writing about rock ‘n’ roll and pop culture generally, a passage from my introduction has been my dictum ever since:  “Many accounts of popular entertainers’ careers tend to drift toward fandom, awash with unreferenced superlatives and unverified feats of publicity…and never quite coming to terms with the imperfect, even ordinary, individuals at their center.”

Without any access to Page himself, Magus