...a traveler of both time and space, to be where he has been...
- 1966 Jimmy Page recorded A Degree of Murder soundtrack with Brian Jones.
- 1969 Tous En Scene TV show, filmed June 19, aired on French TV
- 1971 Led Zeppelin - Chicago, IL at International Amphitheatre
- 1998 Page & Plant - Vancouver, Canada at General Motors Place
- 2008 It Might Get Loud premiers at Toronto Film Festival
- 2013 Jimmy Page at London launch of Lou Reed limited edition book, Transformer
It's all connected:
Jimmy Page was employed as producer, session musician and A&R scout for Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate Records label in 1965. Jimmy Page produced and played on Nico’s 1965 singles for Immediate,
I'm Not Sayin' / The Last Mile.
Oldham was manager and producer of The Rolling Stones from 1963 to 1967. Brian Jones was the founder and original bandleader of the Rolling Stones, and in 1966 Jimmy Page worked with Brian Jones recording the soundtrack to the 1967 movie, A Degree of Murder. Jones' broke up with his girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg, and shortly after was seen enjoying the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967 with Nico.
Nico had met Bob Dylan a few years before and had traveled with him around Europe while Dylan worked on songs for his fourth album, 1964's
Another Side of Bob Dylan. During that time Dylan wrote a song for Nico's 1967
Chelsea Girl album called
I'll Keep It With Mine. Chelsea Girl was released in October 1967 by Verve Records, The Velvet Underground's label. According to some sources, Bob Dylan had introduced Nico to Andy Warhol, who had done a "
screen test" of Dylan in 1965 or 1966, and Warhol introduced her to Lou Reed's band, The Velvet Underground.
The album The Velvet Underground & Nico was produced in 1972 by Andy Warhol. While it didn't sell many copies at the time, even Rolling Stone magazine has ranked it number thirteen on their list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". But then Rolling Stone, ranked Led Zeppelin's first album only 29th, and none of their other albums appear in the top 50. The magazine's music critics never has much liked Led Zeppelin, so take their ranking for what it's worth.
To continue...
Transformer was Lou Reed's second solo studio album. One of the tracks, Walk On The Wild Side, became Lou Reed's signature song. The 1972 album was produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson, and the cover art photography was by Mick Rock, David Bowie's official photographer. Rock continued photographing Lou Reed and other musicians over the decades.
Mick Rock has put out a number of photographic books. He and Lou Reed launched a Genesis Publications limited edition book, Transformer, in London in September 2013. Jimmy Page was at the event. Reed died October 27, 2013.
"The Yardbirds used to cover I'm Waiting For My Man a lot; we used to drop it into the middle of I'm A Man. I'm pretty certain we were the first people to cover The Velvet Underground." ~Jimmy Page, Julian Marszalek interview, Quietus November 2014
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| 1966 recording A Degree of Murder soundtrack |
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| 1966 recording A Degree of Murder soundtrack |
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| 1966 recording A Degree of Murder soundtrack |
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| 1966 recording A Degree of Murder soundtrack |
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| 1966 recording A Degree of Murder soundtrack |
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| 2008 Jimmy Page at It Might Get Loud premier, Toronto Film Festival |
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| Jimmy Page, in It Might Get Loud |
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| Jimmy Page, in It Might Get Loud |
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| 2013 Jimmy Page and Lou Reed at launch of Reed's limited edition book, Transformer |
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