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Jimmy Page
Arts, Music & MediaWho is Jimmy Page in the Agency editorial?
Jimmy Page is an English musician, born in 1944, the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Issue.14 names him once, in the author's prose, in the passage on Led Zeppelin: he is the band's guitarist, who had composed the riff for which Robert Plant wrote the lyrics of Stairway to Heaven.
In short
Jimmy Page is an English musician, born in 1944, the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin. In the Agency editorial he appears in a single sentence of Issue.14, the edition about music. The author tells that in 1970 Robert Plant, sitting by a fire in a cottage in the English countryside, wrote in a single afternoon the lyrics for the riff that Jimmy Page, the band's guitarist, had composed some time before. The song is Stairway to Heaven. The rest of the passage is about Plant and the lyrics, and the edition says nothing else about Page.
Key facts
- Who is Jimmy Page?
- An English musician, born in 1944, guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin and co-writer, with Robert Plant, of Stairway to Heaven.
- Where does the Agency editorial name Jimmy Page?
- In Issue.14, in one sentence of the passage on Led Zeppelin, inside the edition's section on music.
- What does Issue.14 say about him?
- That he is the guitarist of Led Zeppelin and that he had composed, some time before, the riff for which Robert Plant wrote the lyrics in a single afternoon in 1970.
Who is Jimmy Page?
Jimmy Page is an English musician born in 1944. He founded the rock band Led Zeppelin, in which he played guitar, and wrote Stairway to Heaven (1971) with the singer Robert Plant. These facts come from outside the edition and are marked for verification.
How does Jimmy Page appear in Issue.14?
Issue.14 is about music, and one of its passages is about Led Zeppelin. The author tells that in 1970 Robert Plant, the band's frontman, was sitting by a fire in a cottage in the English countryside and, in a single afternoon, wrote the lyrics to the riff that Jimmy Page, the band's guitarist, had composed some time before. The track was named Stairway to Heaven. The author then comments on the final verse of the lyrics and on Plant; Page is not named again.
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