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Year-Old Jimmy Page Plays Guitar on TV in , an Early Moment in His Spectacular Career
These days, most of our pop stars seem to come pre-printed from child-star factories, their looks and sound carefully crafted for maximum appeal. But every generation has its child stars, especially since the advent of radio and television, and many greats of the past got their start as kids, even if they made their way in a more individualized fashion. Elvis made his first public appearance onstage at a state fair at ten years of age, followed by a local radio appearance when he was twelve. Stevie Wonder made his public debut on TV at age twelve, showing off his harmonica skills at the Apollo theater and on the Ed Sullivan Show. And Jimmy Page—he of Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin fame—first caught the public’s eye as the thirteen-year old member of a skiffle band on the BBC’s All Your Own in See the shy, fresh-faced young “James Page” above.
Page discusses with the show’s host Huw Wheldon not just his musical ambitions, but his academic ones, specifically his interest in finding a cure for cancer, “if it isn’t covered by then.” Page stuck with his biological research, for a while, then went to art school for two year
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New York: The Norse Press,
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The electric guitar. Those three words have expressed so much and shaped the popular music field since the s. Something about its shape, size, mystique and aura makes it the quintessential &#;cool&#; rock instrument. The guitar, with its curves, sheen, myriad of shapes and sizes is the musical &#;sexy beast&#;. If you ask any electric guitarist why they started to play most (if they aren&#;t liars) will tell you it was to be popular with the girls (or just plain popular). The documentary It Might Get Loud, by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, ), brings together three iconic rock guitarists from three different generations, Jimmy Page (&#;The Yardbirds,&#; Led Zeppelin, b. ), The Edge (&#;U2,&#; b. , David Howell Evans), and Jack White (&#;The White Stripes,&#; &#;The Ranconteurs,&#; b. ), to essentially talk about their shared love of the electric guitar. This is not a discussion of the technical aspects of the guitar (though there is some of that), or a confession of their favorites &#;axes&#; (though there is some of that), or a biography of each figure (though there is some of that), or a history of the instrument, or a mutual admiration club sit-in (though there is some of that). It is simply about three very different human beings (an Englishman, an Irishman,