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“I wanted to design a pedal range that’ll last 10, 20, 30, 40 years... It could be something you could bequeath to those you love”: Exquisite stompboxes, built to last a lifetime, meet Red Witch’s Apothecary Series

The Apothecary Series includes fuzz, overdrive, phaser, chorus/vibrato and modulated delay, and designer Ben Fulton says they're so durable they might outlast us all

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The 35 greatest debut albums of all time, from Lady Gaga to Arctic Monkeys

These records serve as statements of intent and have the power to change or reshape the industry, inspire fellow musicians, and drive essential conversation about our understanding of music. Roisin O'Connor picks the best of the bunch

The Independent UK

“I said, ‘Let’s get Hendrix to play on it.’ His manager said, ‘Jimi’s playing shows back-to-back.’ So we got Jimmy Page”: The hit ’60s single that was supposed to feature Jimi Hendrix… but ended up with Jimmy Page

Donovan tried to recruit Hendrix when he went in the studio in the late 1960s, but ended up working with the soon-to-be Led Zeppelin guitar great

Guitar World

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"We haven’t adjusted it for the taste of modern kids. This is how it's meant to be heard": An interview with the makers of Becoming Led Zeppelin

As Becoming Led Zeppelin continues to take the world by storm, we talk to the duo who put it all together

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“I told Jimmy Page: ‘Come on! People want to see Zeppelin back together!’ I won’t say I was responsible, but after that they did play that reunion gig”: Mick Fleetwood’s wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Arnold Schwarzenegger and more

Future rock superstars, US presidents, Hollywood megastars –Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood has met with them all

Louder

“Delivers the same tones that made the original popular with legends”: Rotosound’s ultra-rare fuzz pedal has been reissued – bringing Jimmy Page-approved fuzz magic to the masses

Page was pictured playing the ultra-rare OG pedal on several occasions in 1969 – and now the elusive Rotosound Fuzz has been reissued

Guitar World

"John Paul Jones' production rounds the edges a little but that's not necessarily a good thing": The Datsuns back themselves into a musical cul-de-sac on Outta Sight / Outta Mind

The trousers were tight, the guitars were wielded like weapons, but The Datsuns' second album hasn't aged well

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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

Guitar World

"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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“John Bonham was at the bar drinking quadruple brandies. He just turned around and whacked Gary in the stomach”: The crazed tale of the Heavy Metal Kids, the cult rock’n’roll hooligans with a tragic TV star singer

The Heavy Metal Kids were the missing link between David Bowie and AC/DC

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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

MusicRadar

"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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‘Pallister had a cracking voice, but Parker, Keane and Irwin were hating it. All of the other lads were shuffling to the back, so I took the pressure off them’: Lee Sharpe recalls recording Man United's No.1 single

Manchester United hit the top of the pop charts in 1994 with their Come On You Reds single

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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

Guitar World

“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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"Do you know Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love?": Over in Santa Monica, a Lithuanian guitarist and a Ukrainian violinist are busking their way to YouTube fame and fortune

Meet Døvydas Maščinskas and Karolina Protsenko

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“Ritchie has firm ideas about how things should be, and there were things that we disagreed on”: Ritchie Blackmore once asked former Deep Purple bandmate Ian Gillan to join Rainbow

Gillan responded by asking Blackmore to join his solo band

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"Oh my God, this is mind-blowing": The makers of Becoming Led Zeppelin say they found some amazing unseen footage from later in the band's career

Becoming Led Zeppelin is in cinemas now

MusicRadar

“When we heard the album we were speechless!”: How Led Zeppelin's debut blew Peter Frampton away - and inspired countless guitarists

“It was another Sgt. Pepper moment,” Frampton said

The Guardian - UK

Becoming Led Zeppelin review – enjoyable retrospective will be met with a Whole Lotta Love

It’s hard not to head-bang along to the first authorised documentary about the heavy rock legends, but stopping the story in 1969 ignores the band’s more colourful years

MusicRadar

“Jimmy Page arrived carrying a Waitrose bag. I thought he’d brought sandwiches with him”: How new Becoming Led Zeppelin documentary nearly never happened

Turns out that getting the ever illusive rockers on the record required more than a little gentle persuasion

Evening Standard

Becoming Led Zeppelin review: revelatory documentary about a behemoth of a band

4/5 Filled with crowd-pleasing archive material, this documentary shows how Jimmy Page and co. took America first

Louder

"I wondered if he had brought sandwiches": Jimmy Page only agreed to take part in the Led Zeppelin movie after a seven-hour meeting and an unexpected trip to a boathouse

Filmmaker Bernard MacMahon has revealed the lengths he went to to get Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones involved in Becoming Led Zeppelin

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