{"id":31182,"date":"2025-01-09T18:02:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T18:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-9-1944-led-zeppelin-guitarist-jimmy-page-was-born\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T18:02:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T18:02:31","slug":"on-this-day-jan-9-1944-led-zeppelin-guitarist-jimmy-page-was-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-9-1944-led-zeppelin-guitarist-jimmy-page-was-born\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Jan. 9, 1944: Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page was born"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-08\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Jan. 9, 1944 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>James Patrick Page,<\/strong> better known as <strong>Led Zeppelin<\/strong> guitarist <strong>Jimmy Page<\/strong>, was born in Heston, a suburb of London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Page started his career as a studio musician and was a member of <strong>The Yardbirds<\/strong>\u00a0before forming Led Zeppelin in 1968 with <strong>Robert Plant<\/strong>, <strong>John Paul Jones<\/strong> and <strong>John\u00a0Bonham<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">The band went on to become one of the bestselling acts in music history, releasing nine studio albums that all reached the top 10, with six hitting #1.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Led Zeppelin called it quits in 1980 following Bonham&#8217;s death, although the surviving members would reunite in 1985 to perform at Live Aid in Philadelphia and again in 1988 for the Atlantic Records 40th anniversary concert in New York, with Bonham\u2019s son, <strong>Jason Bonham<\/strong>, behind the drum kit. They reunited for a final time in 2007 at the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert at London\u2019s O2 Arena, again with Jason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Outside of Led Zeppelin, Page and Plant worked\u00a0together in the band the <strong>Honeydrippers<\/strong>\u00a0and performed together as Page-Plant in the early to mid-&#8217;90s.\u00a0Page\u00a0also collaborated with several other artists, including <strong>David Coverdale <\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0The Black Crowes<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Page was inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Led Zeppelin in 1995. In 2005 he was appointed Order of the British Empire and earned a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award with Led Zeppelin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Jan. 9, 1944 &#8230; James Patrick Page, better known as Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, was born in Heston, a suburb of London. Page started his career as a studio musician and was a member of The Yardbirds\u00a0before forming Led Zeppelin in 1968 with Robert Plant, John<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-9-1944-led-zeppelin-guitarist-jimmy-page-was-born\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}