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(Credits: Far Out \/ Jimmy Page \/ David Coverdale)<\/p>\n
Fri 13 February 2026 0:00, UK <\/p>\n
A decade into Led Zeppelin<\/a>\u2019s existence, they could still make a rational argument for being the biggest rock \u2018n\u2019 roll band on earth, but the days of appearing cutting edge or \u2018dangerous\u2019 were long gone, as the louder voices in the emerging punk scene had reframed them as unhip dad rock, or yesterday\u2019s news.<\/p>\n Jimmy Page, who was only in his mid-30s at the time, was a good sport during that sea change, and he learned to take a lot of the blowback with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n \u201c[The punks] took potshots at us and all the existing bands,\u201d he recalled to the LA Times in 1993, \u201cbut I remember going to see The Damned, who I really enjoyed, and someone in the group took me aside and said, \u2018Don\u2019t take any notice about all this knocking\u2026because I always play \u2018Stairway [to Heaven]\u2019 when I go home.\u201d<\/p>\n If he still felt like he was on the right musical path in the \u201870s, though, that no longer held true after the death of John Bonham and the demise of Led Zeppelin in the \u201980s.<\/p>\n \u201cI think everyone goes through a period where you have a fear of losing that spark,\u201d Page admitted, \u201cAnd I went through some of that. I was fully aware the work that I did during the \u201880s certainly wasn\u2019t of the quality of Zeppelin, but that wasn\u2019t necessarily my own fault. The other components weren\u2019t there. I didn\u2019t feel I had the right pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n The guitarist had released a pair of marginally successful albums in the mid-\u201880s with a supergroup called The Firm<\/a>, with ex-Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers on vocals, but he now seemed happy enough throwing that band under the bus. Both Page and Rodgers were still mourning their old bands at the time, perhaps, and the chemistry had never quite realigned. <\/p>\n If there was a lesson to be learned, it was to avoid hitching your wagons to a newly single frontman trying to rediscover himself, especially if he reminds you of your \u2018ex\u2019, but somehow that memo didn\u2019t stick in Page\u2019s mind, because by 1993, he was out promoting a new collaboration with David Coverdale of Whitesnake.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>(Credits: Far Out \/ Album Sleeve)<\/p>\n