Jimmy Page

At 80 years old, Jimmy Page has this physical status:

James Patrick Page (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician, singer, and record producer who rose to international prominence as the guitarist and producer of Led Zeppelin's rock band Led Zeppelin. Page began his career as a London studio session guitarist, and by the 1960s, alongside Big Jim Sullivan, he was one of Britain's most in-demand session guitarists.

From 1966 to 1968, he was a member of the Yardbirds.

Led Zeppelin was founded in late 1968. Page is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time.

In Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," behind Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, Page was dubbed "the pontiff of power riffing" and ranked third.

He was ranked second in Gibson's list of "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time" in 2010 and fourth on Classic Rock's "100 Wildest Guitar Heroes" in 2007.

He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, once as a member of the Yardbirds (1992) and then as a member of Led Zeppelin (1995).

Early life

On January 9, 1944, Page was born in the west London suburb of Heston, to James Patrick Page and Patricia Elizabeth Gaffikin. His father, who was of Irish descent, was a hospital manager at a plastic-coating plant, and his mother, who was of Irish origins, was a doctor's secretary. They moved to Feltham and then to Miles Road, Epsom, Surrey, in 1952. Page began attending Epsom County Pound Lane Primary School aged eight, and when he turned 11 years old, he went to Ewell County Secondary School in West Ewell. In the Miles Road home, he discovered his first guitar, a Spanish guitar, "I don't know if [the guitar] was left behind by the people [in the house] before [us] or whether it was a neighbor of the family's—nobody seemed to worry why it was there." He took a few lessons in Kingston but was mainly self-taught: he first started playing the piano at the age of 12, but not really self-taug

Rod Wyatt, a few years his senior, and Pete Calvert, a teenage boy, would play at Page's house for six to seven hours on certain days of practising; he'd always take his guitar with him to secondary school only to have it confiscated and returned to him after class. Scotty Moore and James Burton, both played on Elvis Presley's records, were among Page's early influences. Page credits Presley's song "Baby Let's Play House" as being his inspiration to play the guitar, and he'll reprise Moore's appearance on "The Song Remains the Same" in the live version of "Whole Lotta Love." He appeared on BBC1 in 1957 with a Höfner President acoustic, which he had purchased from a spare cash reserve in the summer holidays and which had a pickup so it could be amplified, but his first solid-bodied electric guitar, a second-hand 1959 Futurama Grazioso, was a first-hand 1959 Futurama Grazioso, a model he'd seen on the television an

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Page appeared in Huw Wheldon's All Your Own talent hunt series in a skiffle quartet, one of which aired on BBC1 in 1957. The group performed "Mama Don't Want to Skiffle Anymore" and another American-flavoured track, "In Them Ol' Cottonfields Back Home," as another American-flavoured track. When asked by Wheldon what he wanted to do after schooling, Page replied, "I want to do biological studies [to find a cure for] cancer if it isn't found by then."

In an interview with Guitar Player magazine, Page said that "there were a lot of busking in the early days, but that "I had to get to grips with it, and it was a good schooling." He was 14 years old and listed as James Page in a band called Malcolm Austin and Whirlwinds, with Tony Busson on bass, Stuart Cockett on rhythm, and a drummer named Tom, knocking out Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis numbers. This band was short-lived, as Page found a drummer for a band he'd previously worked with Rod Wyatt, David Williams, and Pete Calvert and came up with the Paraphrasedoutput: The Paragraphs were a band that had not been playing in with them before. In Epsom, the Paraphrasedoutput: The Paraphrasedoutput: The Paraphrasedoutput: The Paraphrasedoutput: The Paraphrasedoutput: The Paraphrasedoutput: The Paraphrasedoutput: The Paraphrasedoutput: The Paraphrasedoutput: The Paraphrasedoutput: Once supporting a group that would later become Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, the Paraphrasedoutput: The Paraphrasedoutput: The Paraphrasedoutput: The Paraphrased's's supported's, once supporterojang, who would later performed, once supporting &apose's, later performed, later performed, later performed, then opened and the P

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Page had a hard time finding other musicians with whom he could perform on a regular basis. "It wasn't as if there was an abundance." I used to play in many organizations... anyone who could get a gig together, really." After a stint as a supporter for Beat poet Royston Ellis at the Mermaid Theatre between 1960 and 1961, and singer Red E. Lewis, who'd seen him performing with the Paraphrasedoutput: Following guitarist Bobby Oats' departure, the Crusaders' departure, Page was invited by artist Neil Christian to join his backing band, the Redcaps. Christian had seen a fifteen-year-old Page in a local hall, and the guitarist toured with Christian for about two years and later appeared on many of his albums, including the 1962 single "The Road to Love."

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Personal life

Page was with American recording artist Jackie DeShannon, who has been cited as a possible inspiration for the Led Zeppelin's "Tangerine" and Page composition.

Charlotte Martin, a French model, appeared on Page's From 1970 to 1983 or 1983, she was Page's partner. Page referred to her as "Mis Lady" and they had a child, Scarlet Page (born in 1971), who is a photographer.

Page had a long, many-year relationship with "baby bandite" Lori Mattix (also known as Lori Maddox), beginning when she was 13 or 14 years old and when he was an adult of twenty-eight. Their friendship drew renewed interest four decades later as a result of the Me Too movement.

Page was married to Patricia Ecker, a model and waitress, from 1986 to 1995. They have a son, James Patrick Page (born in April 1988). Jimena Gómez-Paratcha, who appeared in Brazil on the No. 9 tour, was married later on the page. He adopted Jana (born 1994) and they have two children together: Zofia Jade (born 1997) and Ashen Josan (born 1999). In 2008, Page and Gómez-Paratcha divorced.

Since August 2014, Page has been in a relationship with actress and poet Scarlett Sabet.

In 1967, when Page was still with The Yardbirds, he bought the Thames Boathouse in Pangbourne, Berkshire, and lived there until 1973. In the summer of 1968, the Boathouse was also where Page and Plant first met together in the summer of 1968, when Led Zeppelin was born.

Page purchased the Tower House from Richard Harris in 1972. William Burges (1827–81), who designed for himself in London, had it. "I had an interest going back to my youth in the pre-Raphaelite movement and Burges' architecture," Page said. "What a wonderful world to explore." Burges' reputation has largely revolved around his extravagant plans and his contribution to the Gothic revival of architecture in the nineteenth century.

Page owned the Mill House, Mill Lane, Windsor, which was once the home of actor Michael Caine from 1980 to 2004. John Bonham, a fellow Led Zeppelin band member, died at the funeral in 1980.

Page owned the Boleskine House, the former home of occultist Aleister Crowley from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Scenes of Page's fantasy sequence The Song Remains the Same were shot at night on the mountainside directly behind Boleskine House.

Page also owned Plumpton Place in Sussex, which was once owned by Edward Hudson, the founder of Country Life magazine, and some portions of the house built by Edwin Lutyens. This house appears in the Zeppelin film The Song Remains The Same house where Page is seen sitting on the lawn playing a hurdy-gurdy.

He lives in Sonning, Berkshire, in Deanery Garden, which was also built by Edwin Lutyens for Edward Hudson.

Since the 1970s, Page has recalled heavy use of opioids. "I can't speak for [other members of the band], he said, but for me, drugs were an integral part of the whole process, right from the start to the end." "All went over the top a few times" after the band's 1973 North American tour, Page told Nick Kent: "Oh, everybody went over the top a few times." I know I did, but to be honest with you, I don't really recall much of what happened.

According to Richard Cole, Page began using heroin in 1975. Cole claims he and Page took the drug during the recording session of the album Presence, and Page confessed shortly afterwards that he was addicted to the drug.

Page's heroin use by Led Zeppelin's 1977 North American tour was starting to hinder his guitar playing appearances. By this time, the guitarist had shed a considerable amount of weight. Page's onstage performance was not the only apparent change; his heroin use prompted him to become so inward and isolated, which changed the relationship between him and Plant dramatically. Page's depressed presence on the album (relative to bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones) is in part due to his heroin use, which resulted in his absence from the studio for lengthy stretches of time.

According to reports, Page overcame his heroin use in the early 1980s, but he was jailed for cocaine use in 1982 and 1984. He was released after a 12-month conditional discharge in 1982, but he was only fined after a second conviction normally carried a prison term.

In a 1988 interview with Musician magazine, Page dismissed her offence when the interviewer said that heroin had been linked to his name and insisted: "Do I look as if I'm a smack addict?" Well, I'm not. "Thank you so much" is the word that comes to mind.

In an interview with Page that he gave to Q magazine in 2003, he answered a question about whether he regrets being involved in heroin and cocaine.

When Page read Aleister Crowley's Magick in Theory and Practice, he began as a schoolboy at the age of fifteen. Following this find, he thought, "Yes, that's it." I've found it on my own.

The appearance of four symbols on the jacket of Led Zeppelin's fourth album has been attributed to Page's obsession with the occult. Each member of the band was represented by the four symbols. The page's own "Zoso" symbol appeared in Ars Magica Arteficii (1557), where it has been described as a sigil composed of zodiac signs. Fred Gettings' Dictionary of Occult, Hermetic, and Alchemical Sigils has reprinted the sigil.

Page had the "Zoso" symbol embroidery on his clothing during tours and performances after the fourth album's debut, as well as zodiac symbols. These were especially apparent on his book "Dragon Suit" which featured the constellations of Capricorn, Scorpio, and Cancer, which are Page's Sun, Ascendant, and Moon signs, respectively. On Page's amplifiers, the "Zoso" symbol also appeared.

The artwork on Led Zeppelin IV's album cover is from a painting by Barrington Colby, who was inspired by the card's traditional Rider/Waite Tarot card layout, "The Hermit." Very little is known about Colby, and rumors have persisted that rumors have existed for as long as Page himself is to blame for the painting. During Led Zeppelin's concert film The Song Remains the Same, Page transforms into this character.

Page owned The Equinox Booksellers and Publishers, a occult bookshop and publishing house in Kensington, London, founded after Crowley's biannual publication, The Equinox. Egyptian and Art Deco motifs were incorporated into the interior's design, with Crowley's birth chart attached to a wall. The bookshop's motives for opening it were clear: the bookshop's reasons were straightforward: the site's reasons were straightforw

Isabel Hickey's 1904 edition of The Goetia and Astrology, A Cosmic Science, was published in two books by the company. The lease was finally in effect on the building and was not renewed. "It obviously wasn't going to function the way it should without any dramatic company changes," Page explained, and I didn't want to have to agree to all of this." I really just wanted the shop to be the nucleus, that's all."

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Peter was hired to write the soundtrack for Crowley's film Lucifer Rising by Crowley fan and underground movie director Kenneth Anger's film Lucifer Rising. Anger found that Anger's music was insufficient because the film was only 28 minutes long, and Anger wanted the film to have a complete soundtrack. Page took three years to produce the music, according to Anger, and the final product was only 23 minutes of "droning." In the press, the producer also slammed the guitarist for being a "dabbler" in the occult and an addict, as well as being too hung out on drugs to finish the job. Page defended his claim that he had fulfilled all his obligations, even going so far as to loan Anger his own film editing software to help him finish the job. "Lucifer Rising and Other Sound Tracks" was released on CD in 2012 by Page's website. "Lucifer Rising – Main Track" was included in this one, while the other two tracks "Incubus," "Damask," "Unharmonics," "Damask," "Unharmonics," "Damask", "Damask," "Damask"), "Damask – Ambient," and "Lucifer Rising – Perpetu" were included in "Lucifer Rising – Perpetrence" was on both Side One of "Lucifer Rising – Main Track" was on track," "Under Rising –Perform" ("Incubus," "Under – Ambient," "Unharmonics", "Unharmonics ("Unharmonic"), "Unharmonics") "Da "Unharmonic," "Unharmonics" ("Da – Ambient," "Da – Ambient" and "Da – Perpet – Ambient" and "Lucifer –Persssc "Da –Perform" and "Lucifer –Perform" and "Lucifer Rising –Perpet" (Perform) and "Lucifer –Perform" and "Lucifer –Perform" and "Da) "There was a request" that Lucifer Rising should appear again in my Rolling Stone cover story "Jimmy Page Looks Back," Page said. "I dismissed it."

Although Page owned Crowley's work, he has never identified himself as a Thelemite nor has he been involved in the OTO. During the 1980s, both the Equinox Bookstore and Boleskine House were sold off as Page moved into family life and volunteer work.

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Career

Although a student, Page performed on stage at the Marquee Club with bands including Cyril Davies' All Stars, Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, and fellow guitarists Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. He was spotted by John Gibb of Brian Howard & the Silhouettes, who asked him to help record any singles for Columbia Graphophone Company, including "The Worrying Kind." Mike Leander of Decca Records first offered Page regular studio work. Jet Harris and Tony Meehan's album "Diamonds," which reached number one on the singles chart in early 1963, was his first session for the label.

Page committed himself to full-time session work after brief stints with Carter-Lewis, the Southerners, Mike Hurst and the Method, and Mickey Finn and the Blue Men, among other things. He was known as 'Lil' Jim Pea' as a session guitarist, avoiding confusion with Big Jim Sullivan, the other well-known English session guitarist. In cases where a replacement or second guitarist was required by the recording artist, the majority of the page was turned into "insurance." "It was always myself and a drummer," he explains, "but they never mention the drummer these days, just me." "Who needs a guitarist" either went to Big Jim [Sullivan] or myself." "They just said, do what you want, and at that moment I couldn't read music or anything."

Page was Shel Talmy's most favored session guitarist. As a result, he secured session work on songs for the Who and the Kinks. Page is credited with playing on two tracks on the Kinks' debut album, "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" and "I've Been Driving on Bald Mountain," as well as "I Gotta Move." On the sessions for the Who's first single "I Can't Explain" (although Pete Townshend was reluctant to accept Page's participation in the final project; Page also played lead guitar on the B-side's "Bald Headed Woman"). "As Tears Go By," Marianne Faithfull's "Anyone's Gone to the Moon," Jonathan King's "Tobacco Road," "Mystic Eyes," "My Baby Left Me," Brenda Lee's "Is It True" and "Everyone's Gone to the Moon," were among Page's "Bestie" and "My Baby Left Me," Jonathan King's "Is It Real" and "My Baby Left Me";

In a 2010 interview with Page, he recalled contributing guitar to the Beatles' 1964 film A Hard Day's Night, which was being shot at Abbey Road Studios.

Page was recruited by Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham to act as both a house producer and A&R man for the newly formed Immediate Records brand, which allowed him to perform on and/or produce tracks by John Mayall, Nico, Chris Farlowe, Twice as Much, Clapton, and Clapton. Page also produced "Thank You Boy," one of Dana Gillespie's early singles, in 1965. Page also wrote a brief songwriting collaboration with Jackie DeShannon, who then fell in love. He wrote and performed songs for the John Williams (not to be confused with film composer John Williams) album The Maury Wishful Album with Big Jim Sullivan. Page appeared on Donovan Leitch's Sunshine Superman, Engelbert Humperdinck's Recall Me, Jeune homme and Je suis né dans la rue, Al Stewart's Love Chronicles, and With a Little Help from My Friends, the artist performed on five tracks of Joe Cocker's debut album, With a Little Help from My Friends. Page performed lead guitar on ten Roy Harper albums, totaling 81 minutes of music, over the years since 1970.

When asked which songs he performed on, particularly ones in which there is some mystery regarding what his specific role was, Page often points out that it's impossible to recall exactly what he did given the sheer number of sessions he attended at the time. In a radio interview, he explained that "I was doing three sessions a day, fifteen sessions a week." Sometimes I'll be playing with a band, but sometimes I'll be doing film recording, so it could be a folk session. I was able to do all the different roles."

Despite that Page performed with many well-known artists, many of these early songs are only available as bootleg recordings, some of which were released by the Led Zeppelin fan club in the late 1970s. Including early jam sessions starring Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton and others on various blues topics that were included in Immediate Records' compilations. On the twin album release, Jimmy Page: Session Man. In Olympic Sound Studios on October 15, 1974, Keith Richards recorded both on guitar and vocals. A track called "Scarlet" was cut alongside Ric Grech on bass and Bruce Rowland on drums. In an interview with Rolling Stone's Cameron Crowe, Page discussed "I did what seemed to be the next Stones B side." It was Ric Grech, Keith, and me doing a number called "Scarlet." I can't recall the drummer. It sounded very similar in style and mood to those Blonde on Blonde tracks. It was amazing, really good. We stayed up all night and went down to Island Studios, where Keith played reggae guitars over a portion. I just put some solos on it, but it was eight o'clock in the morning of the next day before I did so. He took the tapes to Switzerland, but someone who was curious about them. Richards claimed that it was a track from my album.

When Stax Records' increasing clout in popular music resulted in the incorporation of brass and orchestral arrangements into recordings at a higher price of guitars, page left studio jobs. He said that his time as a session player was characterized as a high school experience: 'Matthews' visit to the United States involved a great deal of education.

Page was approached in late 1964 about the possibility of bringing Eric Clapton to the Yardbirds, but he refused out of respect for his buddy. Clapton left the Yardbirds and Page in February 1965, but he was reluctant to give up his lucrative work as a session musician and concerned about his health in touring situations, so he recommended his buddy Jeff Beck. In London's IBC Studios, drummer Keith Moon, bass player John Paul Jones, keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, Jeff Beck, and Page recorded "Beck's Bolero" on May 16, 1966. The knowledge gave Page the ability to form a new supergroup starring Beck, as well as The Who's John Entwistle on bass and Moon on drums. However, the project was unable to get off the ground due to a lack of a good vocalist and contractual difficulties. Moon's name "Led Zeppelin" was used for the first time during the period, after Entwistle announced that the proceedings would take place like a lead balloon.

Page appeared at a Yardbirds concert in Oxford within weeks. After the show, he went backstage where Paul Samwell-Smith revealed that he was leaving the organization. Samwell-Smith was hired by Page to replace him, and the company accepted it. He started playing electric bass with the Yardbirds before eventually switching to double lead guitar with Beck when Chris Dreja switched to bass. Nonetheless, the line-up's musical ability was shattered by interpersonal tensions exacerbated by constant touring and a lack of commercial success, although they did have one single, "Happenings Ten Years Ago" was released. Although Page and Beck played together in the Yardbirds, the trio of Page, Beck, and Clapton never played in the original team at the same time. In 1983, the three guitarists appeared on stage together at the ARMS Charity Concerts.

The Yardbirds remained a quartet after Beck's departure. Page released one album on lead guitar and Little Games, and they released one on lead guitar. The album received indifferent feedback and was not a commercial success, despite peaking at number 80 on the Billboard 200. Despite the fact that the band's live performances were largely the opposite, getting heavier and more experimental. These concerts featured musical elements that Page would later refine with Led Zeppelin, most notably "Dazed and Confused" performances.

Page reformed the company following Keith Relf and Jim McCarty's departure in 1968 to accommodate unfinished tour dates in Scandinavia. Page recruited vocalist Robert Plant and drummer John Bonham, who was later contacted by John Paul Jones, who wanted to join. The new group made their Scandinavian tour as the New Yardbirds, but Keith Moon and John Entwistle remembered the old joke right away. The page was stuck with the name of his new band. To prevent a mispronunciation of "Led Zeppelin," manager Peter Grant changed it to "Led Zeppelin."

Led Zeppelin is one of the most well-selling music companies in the history of audio recording. According to various reports, the corporation's worldwide sales stood at more than 200 million albums. They are the second-best-selling band in the United States with 111.5 million RIAA-certified units. Each of their nine studio albums debuted on the top ten of the US Billboard album chart, with six of them reaching the number one position.

Led Zeppelin was one of the pioneers of heavy metal and hard rock, and their music was largely due to Page's contribution as a producer and guitarist. The band's personalistic style drew from a variety of influences. They appeared on several record-breaking concert tours, earning them a reputation for excess. Although the band's output and tour schedule were limited by the members' personal limitations, they were nonetheless profitable and critically successful in the late 1970s.

From the beginning, Page explained that he had a very specific vision of what he wanted Led Zeppelin to b

Following the death of Bonham at Page's home, Led Zeppelin broke up in 1980. Page first refused to touch a guitar while grieving for his friend. His 1980s work consisted of a sequence of short-term collaborations in the bands, the Honeydrippers, reunions, and individual projects, as well as film soundtracks. He also became involved in philanthropic causes.

In March 1981 at the Hammersmith Odeon, Page returned to the stage for a Jeff Beck show. Page formed XYZ, a tribute to former Yes bassist Chris Squire and drummer Alan White in 1981. They rehearsed several times, but the initiative was shelved. These sessions' bootlegs revealed that some of the information on later projects, including the firm's "Fortune Hunter" and "Can You Imagine?" Yes, Page appeared on stage in 1984 at Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany, performing "I'm Down."

Page co-produced the Death Wish II soundtrack in 1982 with director Michael Winner. This and several subsequent Page recordings, including the Death Wish III album, were recorded and produced at his recording studio in Cookham, which he purchased from Gus Dudgeon in the early 1980s.

Page was a member of the A.R.M.S. in 1983. (Action Research for Multiple Sclerosis) A charity series of concerts that honoured Small Faces bassist Ronnie Lane, who suffered from the disease. Page's set included songs from the Death Wish II soundtrack (with Steve Winwood on vocals) and an instrumental version of "Stairway to Heaven" at the Royal Albert Hall in London. A four-city tour of the United States was followed by Paul Rodgers of Bad Company, who replaced Winwood with Paul Rodgers of Bad Company. Page and Rodgers performed "Midnight Moonlight," which would later appear on The Firm's first album. All of the shows featured an on-stage jam of "Layla" that reunited Page with Beck and Clapton. According to the book Hammer of the Gods, it was around this time that Page told people that he had just finished seven years of heroin use. Page appeared at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on December 13, 1983.

Whatever Happened to Jugula? Roy Harper's album Whatever Happened to Jugula? The MacGregors and Themselves were among folk festivals that featured predominantly acoustic sets at folk festivals. Page appeared on Plant as the Honeydrippers the 1984 album The Honeydrippers: Volume 1 and With John Paul Jones on the film soundtrack Scream for Help.

Page later collaborated with Rodgers on two albums under the title The Firm. The Firm, the first album, was released in 1985. "Radioactive" and "Satisfaction Assured" were two of the most famous songs. The album debuted at number 17 on the Billboard pop charts chart and went gold in the United States. Mean Business was established in 1986. The band appeared on stage to promote both albums, but the band soon broke up.

Various other projects were later followed, including session work for Graham Nash, Stephen Stills, and the Rolling Stones (on their 1986 single "One Hit (To the Body)). Page and his former Yardbirds bandmates reunited briefly in 1986 to appear on various tracks from his Box of Frogs' album Strange Land. In 1988, Page released an Outrider solo album that featured Plant contributions, with Page contributing in turn to Plant's solo album Now and Zen, which was released the same year. On the album's first track, "Wasting My Time," the outrider also featured singer John Miles.

Throughout the years, Page has collaborated with Led Zeppelin's other former bandmates to appear live on a few occasions, most notably in 1985 for the Live Aid concert with both Phil Collins and Tony Thompson filling drum duties. However, the band members regarded this performance as sub-parallel, with Page being let down by a poorly tuned Les Paul. On May 14, 1988, page, Plant and Jones, as well as John Bonham's son Jason, attended the Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary exhibition, which concluded the 12-hour performance.

Plant appeared on "Misty Mountain Hop" and "Rock and Roll" in 1990, as a Knebworth tribute to benefit the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre and the British School of Performing Arts and Technology. Page appeared at the Monsters of Rock festival in the same year. At Jason Bonham's wedding, Page performed with the band's former members. In 1993, Page worked with David Coverdale (of the English rock band Whitesnake) on the album Coverdale–Page and a short tour of Japan.

Page and Plant reunited in 1994 as Page and Plant for their first appearance as part of MTV's "Unplugged" series. The 90-minute special, Unledded, premiered to the highest ratings in MTV's history. The session was recorded on October of the same year as No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unleaded, and No Quarter Unledded on DVD. Following a high-reaching mid-1990s tour to help No Quarter, Page and Plant recorded 1998's Walking into Clarksdale, which featured Grammy Award-winning songs "Most High" and "Please Read the Letter."

Page was instrumental in the Led Zeppelin catalog's remastering. He has been active in various charity concerts and charitable causes, including the Action for Brazil's Children Trust (ABC Trust), which was founded by his wife Jimena Gomez-Paratcha in 1998. Page performed guitar for Puff Daddy's album "Come with Me," which heavily samples Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" and was included in Godzilla's soundtrack. The two artists appeared on Saturday Night Live, where they later performed the song.

Page teamed up with the band for six shows in October 1999, featuring Led Zeppelin catalogue and old blues and rock standards following a benefit appearance in the summer where the Black Crows were guested with him. Live at the Greek in 2000, two concerts were recorded in Los Angeles and released as a double live album.

Following the release of the live album, Page and the Black Crows continued their collaboration by joining a package tour with the Who in 2000, which Page eventually dropped before completion.

Page continued his collaboration with Robert Plant in 2001, after guesting with Fred Durst and Wes Scantlin's "Thank You" at the MTV Europe Video Music Awards. The pair performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival after recording a cover of "My Bucket's Got a Hole in It" for a tribute album.

In 2005, Page was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of his Brazilian charitable work for Task Brazil and Action For Brazil's Children's Trust, and later that year, he was named an honorary citizen of Rio de Janeiro and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award with Led Zeppelin.

Led Zeppelin was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in November 2006. The event's television broadcasting consisted of an introduction to the band by many well-known admirers (including Roger Taylor, Slash, Steven Tyler, Jack White, and Tony Iommi), as well as an award presentation to Page and a short address by him. Led Zeppelin's rock band Wolfmother paid their respects to him. Page revealed plans to record new material in 2007, saying: "I really need an album that I'm going to get out of my computer, and it's about to come out." "Also there will be some Zeppelin stuff on the horizon."

On December 10, 2007, the surviving members of Led Zeppelin, as well as John Bonham's son Jason Bonham, attended a charity concert at the O2 Arena London. Led Zeppelin set the world record for "Highest Demand for Tickets for One Music Concert" as 20 million requests for the reunion show were received online, according to Guinness World Records 2009. Page and John Paul Jones performed "Rock and Roll" and "Ramble On" at Wembley Stadium on June 7, 2008, closing the band's concert at Wembley Stadium. During the closing ceremonies on August 24, 2008, Page, David Beckham, and Leona Lewis represented Britain during the 2008 Summer Olympics. Beckham brought a double-decker bus into the stadium, and Page and Lewis performed "Whole Lotta Love" on the radio.

It Might Get Loud, a documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim, was released in 2008. The film explores the evolution of the electric guitar, focusing on Page's Page, The Edge, and Jack White's careers and styles. On September 5, 2008, the film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Also participated in the three-part BBC documentary London Calling: The building of the Olympic handover ceremony took place on March 4, 2009. Page inducted Jeff Beck into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 4, 2009. When speaking to Sky News on December 16, 2010, Page revealed his 2010 solo tour.

Page unveiled an autobiography by Genesis Publications in a limited edition of 2,150 copies hand-crafted. After confirming that he will be one of the headliners at a proposed Show of Peace Concert in Beijing on October 10, 2010, Page was rewarded with the first-ever Global Peace Award from the United Nations' Pathways to Peace group.

Page appeared with Donovan at the Royal Albert Hall in London on June 3rd. The performance was shot on film. On July 13, 2011, Page made an unannounced appearance with The Black Crows at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London. On Friday's Royal Festival Hall, he performed alongside Roy Harper at Harper's 70th-birthday commemoration concert.

Louise Mensch, a British Conservative MP, began a movement in November 2011 to have Page knighted for his services to the music industry. In December 2012, Page, along with Plant and Jones, received President Barack Obama's annual Kennedy Center Honors in a White House ceremony. The award is the highest accolade given to those who have influenced American culture by the arts in the United States. Plant said in February 2013 that he was looking forward to a Led Zeppelin reunion in 2014, but that "Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones are really contained in their own worlds and leave it to [him]" and that he has "nothing to do in 2014."

For Celebration Day, Page (with Led Zeppelin) was named the "Best Rock Album" by the Grammy Award in 2013.

The Berklee College of Music in Boston gave Page an honorary doctorate in May 2014. Page said in a spring 2014 interview with the BBC about Led Zeppelin's first three albums that were then available, but later said that "the chances of it happening [were] zero." Page later told The New York Times that he was "fed up" with Plant's refusal to play, implying that "I was told last year that Robert Plant said he did nothing in 2014." What do the other two guys think? Well, he knows what the others think. Everyone would like to attend more concerts for the band. To be honest with you, he's just playing games and I'm sick of it. I don't sing, so I can't do anything about it," she says, "I definitely want to play live." Because, you know, I've also got a twinkle in my eye. I can also play. So, yeah, I'll just get myself into musical shape, but I'll be focusing on the guitar."

Plant was "slightly disappointed and baffled" by Page in the ongoing Led Zeppelin controversy, during which Page said he was "fed up" with the plant's delaying of Led Zeppelin reunion efforts, according to an NME article in July 2014. Plant instead, Led Zeppelin's guitarist wanted to write acoustically with him, but in a non-plugged manner.

Page, who hasn't appeared as a solo performer since 1988, revealed in September 2014 that he would start a new band and perform songs from his entire career. He talked about his chances for being on the road, saying: "I haven't put [musicians] together yet, but I'm going to do it next year [i.e. 2015: The year's has been a long time since there was no one else to speak at. If I went out to play, I would play stuff from my recording career to The Yardbirds' early days. There will no doubt be any new stuff in there as well."

Page was featured on the two-hour long BBC Radio 2 programme Johnny Walker Meets in December 2015 in an interview with DJ Johnny Walker. In October 2017, Page spoke at the Oxford Union about his music career.

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