How Jimmy Page Thought a Beatles Reunion Might Have Affected Led Zeppelin
When The Beatles parted ways in 1970, there was no shortage of bands vying to take the Fab Four’s place. Leading candidates included The Who, The Rolling Stones, and the upstart hard-rock outfit Led Zeppelin. And while Zep as a band was new, the group included a few old hands.
The list began with Jimmy Page, an ace session guitarist who’d played with both Stones and Who — and led the last stand of The Yardbirds. Page had brought in John Paul Jones, another familiar face on the London scene. Along with Robert Plant and John Bonham, Zep had its own version of a “fab four.”
For the remainder of the ’70s, Led Zeppelin enjoyed a level of commercial success that only The Beatles had tasted. But Page, who also served as Zep’s primary songwriter and record producer, never took the band’s success for granted.
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