With incredible attention to detail, Jimmy Page has chosen photographs representing the most significant moments in his career: from a schoolboy with a rock-a-billy quiff through his extensive work as a session musician; from The Yardbirds through Led Zeppelin, ARMS, The Firm, Outrider, Coverdale & Page and Page & Plant; playing with Roy Harper and The Black Crowes; collaborating with P. Diddy and performing with Leona Lewis at the closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Copyright © Jimmy Page Collection
Jimmy Page with one of his first bands, Red E Lewis & The Redcaps.
Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page collects together nearly 650 photographs to present the complete visual narrative of a remarkable career in music. Genesis and Jimmy Page have spent two years together sifting through thousands of photographs to produce a final and definitive edit that includes a mixture of iconic portraits, rare and unseen images and photographs from Jimmy’s own archive.
Copyright © Chuck Boyd
August 23, 1966. As a member of The Yardbirds, Jimmy Page arrives by sea plane for a gig on Catalina Island, off the coast of California.
Jimmy Page: 'I wanted to expand and develop the acoustic, electric and experimental themes that I had explored in The Yardbirds. In order to channel these ideas I decided to form and produce my own group.'
Copyright © Gered Mankowitz
The Yardbirds, Mason's Yard, London, 1966
Jimmy Page: 'We began recording the second album in London with the idea to continue at different locations in America while absorbing the energy of life on the road. In New York I went in with Eddie Kramer to mix what was to become the classic Led Zeppelin II.'
Copyright © Dominiqe Tarlé
April 19, 1969, Recording Led Zeppelin II at Olympic Studios, Barnes, London, UK
Jimmy Page: 'Bron-Yr-Aur to Bath with the addition of various degrees of stubble, we hit them hard with ‘The Immigrant Song’ to open our set.'
Copyright © Jimmy Page Collection
June 28, 1970, Bath Festival of Blues, Bath & West Showground, Shepton Mallet, UK.
The collection represents the work of more than 70 different photographers including some of the greatest names in rock photography – Ross Halfin, Kate Simon, Gered Mankowitz, Neal Preston, Dominique Tarlé, Pennie Smith, Jim Marshall and Jean Pierre Leloir to name but a few.
Copyright © Neal Preston
February 13, 1975, Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, USA
Copyright © Janet Macoska
April 27, 1977, Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland, USA.
Jimmy Page: 'I’m told that it was the most watched guitar solo in TV history...'
Copyright © Ross Halfin
August 24, 2008, closing ceremony of the summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
