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“I knew exactly what I wanted to do in every respect”: How Jimmy Page built Led Zeppelin from the ashes of the Yardbirds

Using knowledge gleaned from his time as a first-call session pro – and his brief but crucial tenure alongside Jeff Beck in the Yardbirds – Page formed a rock colossus from the ground up

Guitar World

When TM Stevens met James Brown: “I said, ‘One day I'm going to play with you!’ He said, ‘Don't do it! Stay in school!’”

TM Stevens on meeting the Godfather of Soul and the bass players that helped shape his sound

Guitar World

“I remember thinking, ‘What would Paul McCartney do?’” How Justin Smolian channeled his inner Beatle with Dirty Honey

Dirty Honey's Justin Smolian opens up on touring with Guns N' Roses, and why Paul McCartney is still a bass playing genius

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"Why don’t you give Jimmy Page a ring?" How John Paul Jones came to join Led Zeppelin

All it took was a bit of encouragement from his wife, one phone call, and just like that bassist John Paul Jones joined forces with a little band called Led Zeppelin

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“I wrote Black Dog on a train. There was a Muddy Waters song with a riff that never ended...” How John Paul Jones wrote Led Zeppelin's Black Dog

Despite Jimmy Page’s masterful guitar playing, Black Dog was written by Led Zeppelin's bass hero John Paul Jones

Guitar World

"Zeppelin wasn’t safe, but we had such a following that virtually everything was accepted" - How Robert Plant made peace with the end of Led Zeppelin

In 1982, Robert Plant gave his first ever post-Led Zeppelin interview, and Classic Rock's Geoff Barton was the man with the tape recorder

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That time Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones appeared on Conan O'Brien with an alt-rock supergroup and it wasn't Them Crooked Vultures

Back In 2004, John Paul Jones hooked up with musicians from Toad The Wet Sprocket and Nickel Creek plus Elvis Costello's drummer for a US tour

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"I wrote it on a bit of paper on the train": How Led Zeppelin turned a repetitive riff into one of their most killer tracks

Black Dog was an explosive, daring opener to Led Zeppelin's fourth album, but it was born out of humble beginnings

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The golden rule that Jimmy Page was determined to break on Stairway To Heaven

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page knew he was going to do things his own way on their Stairway To Heaven epic

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Led Zeppelin fans will be amazed at how trad and tranquil this band member's country home is

The grand eight-bedroom former home in Devon, South West England of Led Zepplin's bassist, John Paul Jones, is up for sale

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Days of thunder: the triumph and tragedy of John Bonham

John Bonham’s drumming powered Led Zeppelin like the engine of a battleship, but his death in 1980 did for his band. This is his story

Louder

How Jeff Beck passed the Telecaster torch to Jimmy Page and changed the course of rock history

A tale of Jeff Beck’s generosity, Jimmy Page’s enduring gratitude and a 1959 Fender Telecaster that helped define a whole generation of rock music

Guitar World

Led Zeppelin and the shows that broke America (and blew Ace Frehley's mind)

The audience may not have been prepared when Led Zeppelin played the final shows of their first US tour... but the band were ready to explode

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11 best Led Zeppelin tracks to test your hi-fi system

What better way to measure your hi-fi system's talents than with 11 songs from the world's greatest-ever rock band?

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Jet Harris was Britain’s first bass guitar player, the first to own a Fender Precision, and its first rock’n’roll hellraiser too

Fights, car crashes, affairs with starlets – Jet Harris set the template for British bass players and bad behaviour, and along the way inspired everyone from McCartney to Lemmy

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Heart full of soul: the maverick genius of Jeff Beck, the ‘guitarist’s guitarist’

He began with bubblegum pop in the Yardbirds, then moved on to psychedelia, funk, jazz fusion, even techno – but no matter what the genre, Beck was always ahead of the curve

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Led Zeppelin at Newcastle City Hall - and the band's last ever shows in the city

Fifty years ago on November 30 and December 1, 1972, the biggest band in the world, Led Zeppelin, kicked off their last ever UK provincial tour with two shows at Newcastle City Hall

Daily Mirror

Man builds traditional pub inside his house to stop him feeling homesick in America

The homesick Brit splashed out £10,000 on building his own traditional boozer in the back room of his and on finding out the Queen had died, he raised a glass to her in his own pub

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Abortion at sea? Advocates in the US get creative to protect access

To solve the problem of abortion access, Meg Autry is seeking inspiration from an unlikely source: riverboat casinos.

Daily Record

Special present helps mark 275th anniversary of John Paul Jones birth in Kirkbean

Jim Poole and James Bliss presented the John Paul Jones Birthplace Museum with a piece of wood believed to be from the “father of the US Navy"'s ship Bonhomme Richard

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Celebrations planned in Dumfries and Galloway to mark 275th anniversary of birth of “father of the US Navy”

The milestone will be marked at the John Paul Jones Birthplace Museum at Arbigland near Kirkbean

The Independent UK

Taylor Hawkins tribute concert: All surviving members of Nirvana to play at UK and US shows

Concerts are taking place in London and Los Angeles in September

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