![]() The show was the band’s first full-length performance since 1980, when Zeppelin broke up following the death of drummer John Bonham. The guitarist, now 68, is speaking a few weeks before the release of Celebration Day, a film and album of Led Zeppelin’s 2007 reunion concert at London’s O2 arena. Without that, nobody would care about the other stuff.” ![]() But there would be no story without the work we put into the songs, the shows we played. “Would anyone still be interested in the mud shark if the music hadn’t been there?” Page replies, still smiling, when I mention the infamous never-totally-proved tale of a young woman, a fish and a Seattle motel in 1969. Page is also reflecting on a question that comes up a lot in the conversation: how he looks back at the havoc and excess - the drugs, drinking, hotel trashing and sometimes worse - for which Led Zeppelin were notorious in the Seventies. The Led Zeppelin guitarist is taking a fresh-air break from the most extensive interview he has ever given to ROLLING STONE - more than eight hours over two days. JIMMY PAGE STANDS, CALM AND smiling, on the pavement outside his management office in London.
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