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“Mick Ronson came to see one of the Springsteen shows, and he was just so proud of me. He had a classic rock ‘n’ roll existence, but I love him for all that”: Shane Fontayne on the kindness of Ronson, serving the Boss –and playing Stairway for Jimmy Page

His career highs include surprising Stevie Van Zandt with an improvised part, jamming with U2, and playing Stairway To Heaven with the Heart sisters while Jimmy Page was guest of honor

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“Jimmy was still playing the Telecasters that he played in the Yardbirds. I laid it on him and said, ‘Try this out.’ I gave him a good deal, about 1,200 bucks”: How one of rock's most storied Les Pauls changed hands from one guitar hero to another

Page had known Joe Walsh, then a budding guitar hero with the James Gang, since his pre-Zeppelin days with the Yardbirds. And Walsh had a proposition for him

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“I didn’t know the solo was that iconic beforehand! It was only when I started seeing all the comments that I realized”: Shane Fontayne isn't “a Jimmy Page kind of player” – but he had to play the Stairway to Heaven solo… in front of Jimmy Page

As a member of the Kennedy Center house band, Fontayne – best known for his tenures with Bruce Springsteen and Lone Justice – played lead guitar on Heart's legendary cover of the none-more-iconic eight-minute epic

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"If you watch the video, you can see Jimmy dribbling onstage, Robert not hitting the notes, and me miming, playing the air." Phil Collins' memories of Led Zeppelin's "dark, sulphurous" reunion for Live Aid are brutal, and spare no-one

The prospect of Led Zeppelin reforming to play Live Aid, the biggest music event of the 1980s, sparked great excitement. But their return to the stage on July 13, 1985 did not work out as anyone had planned

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“I remember thinking, ‘I’ll show them – they don’t realize they made a mistake.’ It’s not just the wins, it’s the determination you build from the losses”: Tommy Thayer’s junior high disappointment fired him up for success with Kiss

Kiss’ longest-serving Spaceman on sticking to the Les Paul when it wasn’t cool, the joy of discovering you’ve been playing something wrong for years, why he avoided ’80s-style playing, and what he’s doing next

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Brian James obituary

Guitarist with the punk band the Damned who wrote many of their songs, including their first single, New Rose

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“It was a fantastic idea. I would have liked a ménage à trois with Brian Jones and his girlfriend”: The Kinks guitarist Dave Davies’ wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Led Zeppelin and more

Partying with Keith Moon, jamming with Jerry Lee Lewis, getting into a ménage à trois with Brian Jones –Dave Davies has done it all

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“This is not regulation; it is a free pass for AI to exploit creativity without consequence”: Jimmy Page slams UK Government’s policy proposals for artificial intelligence

The Led Zeppelin guitarist argues that the government’s proposed opt-out system for artists is a “sham” and said legislation must ensure “explicit consent and fair compensation” for training AI

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“If someone had taken my riffs without acknowledgment or payment, it would have been deemed theft. The same standard must apply to AI”: Jimmy Page blasts new Artificial Intelligence proposals from UK Government

The Led Zeppelin legend says the technology is exploiting musicians and is “devoid of the struggles that define true artistry”

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"Will we let the machines take the stage, or will we fight for the irreplaceable magic of human artistry?" Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page hits out at UK Government's Artificial Intelligence proposals

Led Zeppelin icon Jimmy Page speaks out as UK Government wraps up consultation into AI 'learning' capabilities

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“It was a once-in-a-lifetime thrill to play these amazing iconic songs with the man who composed them”: The Black Crowes remember their live collab with Jimmy Page

Live At The Greek reissue includes 16 unreleased tracks

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"This riff was gonna be really intense, and probably pretty majestic as well, but quite intriguing”: How Jimmy Page created the Led Zeppelin classic Kashmir

"It kicked off with myself and John Bonham," he said

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"Vibrant, electric, mystical and powerful": Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes release cover of Led Zeppelin's The Lemon Song

The live version of The Lemon Song was recorded during a soundcheck and is taken from the expanded version of Live At The Greek

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“I have kept this film in a drawer all these years. Guitarists have gone nuts”: Unseen footage of Led Zeppelin performing in Denmark has surfaced after 45 years – and it's been restored with original audio

The footage – which pre-dates Led Zeppelin’s iconic Knebworth shows – has been carefully restored after spending more than four decades locked in a drawer

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“The whole history of Led Zeppelin is musical expansion”: Their monumental double album Physical Graffiti is 50 years old today

It was Zeppelin's answer to The White Album and Electric Ladyland

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“Imagine not knowing Eric Johnson, Vai and Satriani and seeing this for the first time? It literally blows your mind”: Matteo Mancuso – 10 albums that changed my life

The Sicilian virtuoso salutes Jimmy Page's stylistic adventurism, the compositional genius of Pat Metheny and Al Di Meola, and declares Jaco Pastorius “the Jimi Hendrix of bass”

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"There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. I’ve only done a few bits and pieces, really": Play like Jimmy Page with this 5-point plan

Key techniques guitar players can learn from the Led Zeppelin legend

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Thirteen minutes of previously unseen Led Zeppelin footage has surfaced after lying in a drawer for 45 years

The holy grail footage of Led Zeppelin's final warm-up show before their historic Knebworth dates was shot in Denmark in 1979

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"The feedback is humbling and inspiring": Jimmy Page reacts to fan response to Led Zeppelin movie

Becoming Led Zeppelin in theatres now and has broken one box office record

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“I wasn’t with a known band, as opposed to Van Halen, who had a hit record, so he did it, and the world got to hear it”: Harvey Mandel was one of the pioneers of the two-handed tapping technique – yet he claims he was never properly credited for it

The technique reached new heights in the late '70s and early '80s thanks to Eddie Van Halen and his peers. However, Mandel was already using it several years earlier

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“Somebody will get mad at me, but it’s the closest thing to Beck, Clapton and Page. What was in the water we were all drinking?” Billy Corgan names himself and two other ’90s guitar gods as the ‘metal Yardbirds’

The Smashing Pumpkins frontman shared near-identical early experiences with two other players close to his local area, but they all ended up going down different avenues – not unlike the Yardbird legends

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"A ninth album would have been about riffs - interestingly constructed riffs and hypnotic music": Jimmy Page looks back on the tests and turmoil of Led Zeppelin's final albums

The man who led Zeppelin looks back on Presence, In Through The Out Door and Coda

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“The experience of our work with Jimmy in a vibrant, electric, mystical, and powerful perspective”: Unreleased Jimmy Page/Rich Robinson composition set to feature in upcoming deluxe version of Jimmy Page & the Black Crowes: Live at the Greek

The newly remastered set, Page says, provides a glimpse of “the full explosive passion and exciting energy of those alchemical moments”

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"It was a once-in-a-lifetime thrill to play these amazing iconic songs with the man who composed them": Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes detail massively expanded edition of Live At The Greek

Watch the video for the previously unreleased No Speak, No Slave and listen to the Led Zeppelin classic Bring It On Home

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“Explosive passion and exciting energy!”: Watch Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes rocking out in 1999

Their joint live album is reissued in a new box set

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