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Review: ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ brings riffage and volume but little in the way of fresh insight

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There’s pummeling hard rock, yes, and then there’s the nuclear-grade explosion of Shirley Bassey performing the theme to “Goldfinger” — a whole separate beast. In one of pop music’s oddest confluences, future Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones sat in on that 1964 recording session, years before the band came together. The two musicians remember Bassey’s command with smiles on their faces in the new documentary “Becoming …

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Review: ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ brings riffage and volume but little in the way of fresh insight

There’s pummeling hard rock, yes, and then there’s the nuclear-grade explosion of Shirley Bassey performing the theme to “Goldfinger” — a whole separate beast. In one of pop music’s oddest confluences, future Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones sat in on that 1964 recording session, years before the band came together. The two musicians remember Bassey’s command with smiles on their faces in the new documentary “Becoming …

·Saint Paul, United States
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The New YorkerThe New Yorker

Before He Formed Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page Played a Prom in Ohio

David Owen writes about the Led Zepplin guitarist, Jimmy Page, and a performance he gave with his previous band, the Yardbirds, in 1968, at a high-school prom in Cincinnati.

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The Cheat SheetThe Cheat Sheet

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page Almost Made a 1960s Pop Star 'Fall Over' With His Talent

Led Zeppelin‘s Jimmy Page worked as a session musician before his career really took off. He played on one of the biggest pop songs to come out of the British Invasion. During that session, a pop star almost fell over because of the talents of Page and the people working with him. Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page worked on Petula Clark’s ‘Downtown’ with dozens of others During a 2016 interview with The Guardian, Petula Clark discussed the origins of he…

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