Jimmy Page Biography

Jimmy Page is an English musician who rose to fame as the guitarist and leader of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Also a talented songwriter and a multi-instrumentalist, he began his career as a studio session musician in London. As a young boy he was greatly impressed by Elvis Presley and started playing the guitar at the age of 12. Even though he initially received some lessons, he was largely self-taught. As a teenager he used to play in local halls and joined the band The Crusaders when he was 15. However an illness forced him to put his musical career on a hold and he decided to focus on his studies instead. But he could not distance himself from music for long and was soon back to performing while still a student. Within years he made a name for himself as a skilled instrumentalist, and eventually went on to found the rock band, Led Zeppelin, along with singer Robert Plant, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham. The band became famous as the progenitors of heavy metal and hard rock and achieved phenomenal success, both on the commercial and critical fronts.