So obviously it was a very personal thing. I was bored so I taught myself the guitar from listening to records. There was one other guitarist in my school who actually showed me the first chords that I learned and I went on from there. When I grew up there weren't many other guitarists . He came across his first guitar, a Spanish guitar, in the Miles Road house: "I don't know whether was left behind by the people before, or whether it was a friend of the family's-nobody seemed to know why it was there." First playing the instrument when aged 12, he took a few lessons in nearby Kingston, but was largely self-taught: Page was educated from the age of eight at Epsom County Pound Lane Primary School, and when he was eleven he went to Ewell County Secondary School in West Ewell. In 1952, they moved to Feltham and then to Miles Road, Epsom in Surrey. His father was a personnel manager at a plastic-coatings plant and his mother, who was of Irish descent, was a doctor's secretary. Page was born to James Patrick Page and Patricia Elizabeth Gaffikin in the west London suburb of Heston on 9 January 1944. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: once as a member of the Yardbirds (1992) and once as a member of Led Zeppelin (1995). In 2010, he was ranked number two in Gibson's list of "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time" and, in 2007, number four on Classic Rock 's "100 Wildest Guitar Heroes". Rolling Stone magazine has described Page as "the pontiff of power riffing" and ranked him number three in their 2015 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time", behind Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. Page is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time. Along with the Edge and Jack White, he participated in the 2008 documentary It Might Get Loud. Since 2000, Page has participated in various guest performances with many artists, both live and in studio recordings, and participated in a one-off Led Zeppelin reunion in 2007 that was released as the 2012 concert film Celebration Day. Following the death of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, he participated in a number of musical groups throughout the 1980s and 1990s, more specifically XYZ, the Firm, the Honeydrippers, Coverdale–Page, and Page and Plant. When the Yardbirds broke up, he founded Led Zeppelin, which was active from 1968 to 1980. He was a member of the Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968. Page began his career as a studio session musician in London and, by the mid-1960s, alongside Big Jim Sullivan, was one of the most sought-after session guitarists in Britain. He is notable for occasionally playing his guitar with a cello bow to create a droning sound texture to the music. It is also characterized by his folk and eastern-influenced acoustic work. Prolific in creating guitar riffs, Page’s style involves various alternative guitar tunings and melodic solos, coupled with aggressive, distorted guitar tones. James Patrick Page OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.
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