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Article: Faltering first steps on the stairway to heaven
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 7, 2007
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LED ZEPPELIN THE BIRTH OF THE BAND
It nearly didn't happen. How Robert Plant almost joined Slade,
and Jimmy Page aimed to be a biologist, by CHRIS MUGAN
To look at him now, you would not think that young James Page's
ambition in life was to enter "biological research", yet that was
the startling admission this only child made in 1958 on the TV
talent show All Your Own. Eight years later, there was another
glimpse of Page in Michelangelo Antonioni's homage to swinging
London, Blowup, when The Yardbirds enjoyed a cameo performing at a
club populated by peculiarly immobile scenesters.
Page himself was established as a full-time jobbing guitarist by
the mid-Sixties. He sat in on sessions with ...