Fifty years after Led Zeppelin released Houses of the Holy, we know its best songs rank among the band’s finest. After a two-month delay because of the album artwork, Zep released their fifth album to a ravenous fan base that helped it go gold in less than two weeks. Despite the delay, Jimmy Page still hated the Houses of the Holy cover, and 50 years later, we know just how wrong he was.
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page | Watal Asanuma/Shinko Music/Getty Images Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin fired the original ‘Houses of the Holy’ album cover designer
Just say the words Houses of the Holy, and you can practically see the cover: The glowing orange sky, kaleidoscopic-colored rocks, and naked children climbing on them toward the summit. Page hated the final design, but it beats the alternative — an image of a tennis racket.
Storm Thorgerson, a founder of...
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page | Watal Asanuma/Shinko Music/Getty Images Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin fired the original ‘Houses of the Holy’ album cover designer
Just say the words Houses of the Holy, and you can practically see the cover: The glowing orange sky, kaleidoscopic-colored rocks, and naked children climbing on them toward the summit. Page hated the final design, but it beats the alternative — an image of a tennis racket.
Storm Thorgerson, a founder of...
- 3/28/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
You won’t find many pictures of Jimmy Page without a guitar in his hands. That makes sense. He quit his lucrative gig as a session guitarist before he joined the Yardbirds and founded Led Zeppelin. His talents and international fame led to hundreds of photos of Page holding guitars he made famous. You won’t find one of Page playing a Gibson Flying V, even though it makes a memorable appearance on “You Shook Me” from Led Zeppelin I.
Robert Plant (left) and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin | Jorgen Angel/Redferns Jimmy Page used one guitar on every ‘Led Zeppelin I’ song except for ‘You Shook Me’
Page turned down an invitation to join the Yardbirds and recommended his friend Jeff Beck instead. Beck repaid Page for not taking the job by giving him the Fender Telecaster guitar he had been using.
Page played the proto-punk of “Communication Breakdown,...
Robert Plant (left) and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin | Jorgen Angel/Redferns Jimmy Page used one guitar on every ‘Led Zeppelin I’ song except for ‘You Shook Me’
Page turned down an invitation to join the Yardbirds and recommended his friend Jeff Beck instead. Beck repaid Page for not taking the job by giving him the Fender Telecaster guitar he had been using.
Page played the proto-punk of “Communication Breakdown,...
- 2/16/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Given the centrality of drugs to rock history, it’s surprising that more hasn’t been written about the specific intersection between the two. So it’s encouraging that Vancouver writer George Case forthrightly declares his new book, Out Of Our Heads: Rock ’N’ Roll Before The Drugs Wore Off, to be a history of rock through the lens of narcotics. And it’s frustrating when the book turns out to be a by-the-numbers, half-digested rock history with a goodly portion of nudging asides and barely concealed hero worship of chemical warriors like Keith Richards and Jimi Hendrix. Case doesn ...
- 3/11/2010
- avclub.com
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