

James Patrick Page was born in Middlesex on January 9, 1944. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on.

Page summed up Led Zeppelin's mission in 1977: "The motto of the group is definitely Ever Onward." Plant described Led Zeppelin's hold on the music world's imagination as a "sort of a feeling of power onstage.

Queen, The Ramones, Joe Satriani, Slash, Freddy Mercury, Axl Rose, Jeff Buckley, Jack White, young garage bands and seasoned arena rockers all have followed the path blazed by this most influential rock group of the 1970s. It would be all but impossible to find a rock singer or guitarist today who does not carry the larger-than-life, generous mark of Led Zeppelin. Rolling Stone described Jimmy Page as "the pontiff of power riffing, and probably the most digitally sampled artist in pop today after James Brown." Robert Plant, according to a 2011 Rolling Stone readers' poll, is simply "the best lead singer of all time." Together, their influence is vast. Lots of light and shade in the music." They succeeded. "I wanted Zeppelin to be a marriage of blues, hard rock and acoustic music, topped with heavy choruses - a combination that had never been done before. "I can't put a tag to our music," Page has said. They sang from the soul with superhuman, primal passion and their sound carried something new. With John Bonham who passed away in 1980, they combined the unlikely virtues of high-energy rock and roll with the sweetness of British folk music, American blues, and English skiffle, heavyweight guitar riffs. It took a whole lotta love for Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant to help create a new sound in rock and roll, but that is what they did, spectacularly. Robert Plant (Rock singer, composer and producer born August 20, 1948, in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England)

Jimmy Page (Rock guitarist, composer and producer born January 9, 1944, in Heston, Middlesex, England) John Paul Jones (Rock bassist and keyboardist, composer and producer born January 3, 1946, in Sidcup, Kent, England)
