LED ZEPPELIN: Frustration That Drove Rock's Biggest Band

November 7, 2007

Mirror.co.uk reports: LED ZEPPELIN guitarist Jimmy Page has described the fall that broke his finger, postponing the group's first gig in 28 years — and how years as a session musician drove him to eventually create ZEP.

Yesterday he said: "The light was very dim and I tripped over something and I landed on various bits of my anatomy but of course the crucial part was left hand, little finger. It's unfortunate but what can you do?"

Of the reunion 63-year-old Page says: "We just got together again and started playing and it started to take on its own shape."

Back in the 60s Page earned good money as a session musician but was bored.

He said: "All my pals were enjoying themselves making music. I was doing sessions in all manners of music. And then I was in a muzak session thinking, 'What am I doing?'"

So he decided to join Jeff Beck in THE YARDBIRDS.

Bassist John Paul Jones, 61, was in a similar boat.

He said: "You would get so bored during a muzak session you would start playing something just to make it interesting and they'd stop you and tell you, 'You can't do that because we need to have this in a restaurant or something and it'll distract people from eating.' "And I thought to myself, 'What am I doing here?'"

Page's band THE YARDBIRDS split in 1968 and the guitarist got Jones and Robert Plant to join.

Plant, 59, recalls their first meeting. He says: "I arrived at the station in Berkshire to be met by the most delectable American woman, scantily clad in some kind of Edwardian shawl and little else. "It was great, I had to sit there for a day and a half waiting for Jimmy just looking at this chick."

Read the entire article at Mirror.co.uk.

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