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As a kid in England,

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we were living in the shadows
of the Second World War.

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Your parents
and your grandparents

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had been through two world wars.

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And at the end of
the Second World War,

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there was this great feeling
of hope towards the future.

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In London,

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there was lots of
damaged buildings

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and craters and...

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I mean,
it was an après war zone.

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There was rationing still.
I remember

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uh, getting eggs and milk
and butter and stuff

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with a little book with coupons.

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People were recovering.

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Outside of London,
in the West Midlands,

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it was a post-war,
sort of semi-suburban

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quiet life.

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So America was my dream

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because it was
a totally different world

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to the one that we were in.

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I was listening to this
marvelous rock and roll

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coming in from America.

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And you're hearing all this
electric guitar playing.

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I mean, it was almost like
it was coming from Mars,

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even though it was coming
from Memphis.

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But here in Britain, we were
stuck with these musicians

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who were really safe,

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until this force of nature
called Lonnie Donegan arrived.

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I was so mesmerized

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by having seen
Lonnie Donegan play.

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It was like a portal.

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It gave some access

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to the sort of freedom that you
hadn't witnessed in England.

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Give it up, Jimmy!

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So, one day I come to school
and I see...

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this fellow standing up
in the field

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with lots of people around him.

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His name was Rod Wyatt,

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and he's playing
the Lonnie Donegan songs

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on an acoustic guitar.

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So I went up to him and said,
"I've got one of those at home."

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And he said, "Bring it along

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"and I'll show you
how to tune it up."

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And then he showed me
some chords as well.

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I was absolutely
inseparable from the guitar.

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You know, I'd play it
before breakfast

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and then play it
on the way to school.

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I'd go there
and want to practice,

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but it would be confiscated

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and given back
at the end of the day.

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My father was like,

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"Well, I don't really understand
all this guitar business, but...

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"I'm with you on it,

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"providing you keep
all your schoolwork up."

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But my mum was
really supportive to the idea

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of me carrying on
and starting in a group,

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and she really believed in me.

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I mean,
it was really a big deal.

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My parents
were in vaudeville.

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My mum was the straight singer
in the evening gown

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and my father was a comedian.

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He would play the piano.

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And so I used to travel
around with them

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to all the bases,

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where they'd entertain
the troops.

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And there would be just one
international act after another.

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Accordion players
and banjo players.

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I took all this in.

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So I was from
that musical tradition.

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And it was all the basis

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for everything I ever did
afterwards.

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I grew up
in the West Midlands.

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My father's bloodline
is from there,

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and my mother's side of
the family are Romani Gypsy.

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My childhood was very sheltered,

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until my parents sent me
to a big school in a big town.

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Studied to be
a chartered accountant.

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I mean, I'd really dug a lot
of what was going on at school,

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but when Little Richard
appeared,

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it was so provocative
and all-consuming

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and hypnotic

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that it kinda knocked everything
else out of the water.

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I knew then that
all I wanted to do was sing.

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I mean, that was it.

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The syringe was in the arm.
Forever.

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Oh, well, I'm John Bonham.

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I always liked making
drum sounds when I was a kid.

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I got my first drum kit
when I was ten.

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And we went to see a film
with Gene Krupa,

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and it was just amazing.

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Up here in the Midlands,

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I used to buy completely
different records, you know.

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Johnny Kidd & the Pirates
were a strong influence then.

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You heard it
on all the jukeboxes.

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Of course, they've got those
huge 15-inch speakers.

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That's about all you could hear,
was the bass.

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I heard that and thought,

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"That's a sound
I would really like to make."

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When I told my father,
he said,

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"Bass guitar
is a novelty instrument.

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"And in two years' time it will
never be heard of again.

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"Get yourself a saxophone,
you'll always work."

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So I said, "No.
I want a bass guitar, Dad."

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He heard me practicing and went,
"Hmm, you're coming with me.

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"All you've got to do
is watch my left hand."

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On the piano. So...

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I learned all the standards
from that.

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I had a little band.

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We were playing
at the youth club.

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And I got talking to their
very go-ahead young priest.

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He went,
"We'd really like an organist."

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I said, "Well, I could be an
organist for you, if you like."

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Not thinking anything of it.
He went, "Yeah. Okay."

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In church music
you have to improvise.

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But as I wasn't very good
at playing from music anyway,

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I just improvised everything.

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I learned the hymns.

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I could figure out
what the hymns were.

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I'm not particularly religious,
but it was a good gig.

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All right?
And he was a really cool priest.

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And so I became organist
and choirmaster at 14.

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Which paid me
the princely sum of £25 a year,

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which bought me a Fender bass.

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I used to go and jam
on Thursday night

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at the Marquee Club.

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And after a period
of doing this,

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this band called Carter-Lewis
and the Southerners

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came up to me and asked me

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if I'd like to play
on their record.

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I said, "Yeah, sure.
That sounds really good."

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So I went along with my kit.

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The DeArmond foot pedal
and the amplifier

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and my brand-new
Gibson Les Paul.

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And the band would say,

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"Well, just make something up
for the solo."

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By the second run-through,
I've already got a part for it.

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And the buzz
must have gone around

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about this young guitarist,

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because I started to get
calls for more studio dates.

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When I got into
this session world,

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I was, like, seven years younger
than anybody else.

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And they didn't have somebody
in the old guard,

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or the current guard,

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who really knew
all the influences

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and the points of reference
that the young bands had.

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So, of course, I knew all of it,

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whether it was, like, R&B
or whether it was blues

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or rock, whatever it was.

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Everybody was getting
these records

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that originally came over

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maybe with the American
merchant vessels.

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The R&B boom had kicked in.

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I went to see
Sonny Boy Williamson

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at the American Folk
Blues Festival.

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It was around the time I was
learning to play harmonica too.

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So it was just this
amazing onslaught

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of music from whence
we had no idea.

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Sonny Boy
was almost everything

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that's become my whole entire
musical bloodstream really.

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But in my own hometown,
I had my own hero,

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and it was Perry Foster.

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And he had this kind of setup
called the Delta Blues Band.

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And, um, somehow or another,
I managed to blag my way

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into this band.

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I was prepared to be a mod
or a rocker

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or a beatnik or anything
so long as I could sing

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and gather these looks
around me,

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just trying to make it
stick on the wall.

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I used to play and
I used to have a job as well.

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I used to be working with
my father in the building trade.

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Used to be good builders then.

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But, you know,
the job gradually gets less

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and the music more, you know.
That's what seems to happen.

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You know, we left school
and we formed small groups,

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and things like that,

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and played locally
and everything.

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You know, for me, soul music
was a strong influence then.

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James Brown
was a big favorite

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because, you know,
the drum sound was just amazing.

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I thought,
"I'm gonna get that sound."

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When I was 16,

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I went to see a group
with Robert singing.

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The gig went incredibly well
because he was bloody great.

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In the crowd
watching this

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was this larger-than-life guy
with his beautiful girlfriend.

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He got a hold of me afterwards
and he said,

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"Well, you're okay,

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"but you'd be a lot better with
a proper drummer behind you."

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And I thought,
"Jesus Christ. Here we go."

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The first time
we played together

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we were about 16.

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And it was really good.

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John was amazing.

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He was a really
powerful drummer.

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I watched him
with absolute amazement.

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He was just fantastic.

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But it's so competitive
playing locally anyway.

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You'd, like, have a time
going on the road

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and everything would be roses,

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and then all of a sudden,
no more gigs, no more money.

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You're back to where
you started, you know.

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One time, we were
running out of fuel

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and I had to siphon gasoline
from another car

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and I was caught by the police
in the middle of the night,

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sucking a piece of rubber
into a can.

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And him sitting in the back
shivering,

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thinking,
"What the hell will Pat say?"

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Pat became his wife,
and she used to say,

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"Don't you dare play
with that Planty.

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"He's a complete disaster."

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I left school at 16.

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I failed most of my exams

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because I'd been playing
all night in some club

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the night before my O-Levels.

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And my dad was saying,

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"Well, I can get you a job
as a clerk somewhere."

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"No, no. I'll find a band, Dad.
I'll find a band."

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So there used to be a place
in London

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called Archer Street.

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And every Monday morning,

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all the local musicians
would congregate for work.

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And so I went there as a kid.

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Every Monday morning,
I was there.

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And I started getting
booked with bands

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and in the session scene.

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Here comes Jimmy Page
with his electric guitar.

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That's my Les Paul,
my Black Beauty.

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And this guitar was the guitar

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that I played most of
my sessions on.

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There we are.
Going in there to see

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what I'm gonna be faced with
on that music stand.

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Sessions were a lot of fun
in those days, actually.

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When I started, I ended up
playing a lot of sessions

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together with Jimmy.

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The Goldfinger session
was at Abbey Road.

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Jimmy and I
were in the rhythm section.

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There was a full orchestra

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and Shirley Bassey.

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The whole energy...
Just to be in there...

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I mean, you know,
I'm still a kid, really.

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And it's,
"Wow. It's Shirley Bassey."

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While you were playing,
you could see her.

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And she did the whole thing.

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Like that.
It was wonderful to watch.

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These studios would work
with ruthless efficiency.

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So you couldn't be the one
to mess up

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so they went into overtime.

250
00:20:20,011 --> 00:20:21,553
Of course, if you messed up,

251
00:20:21,554 --> 00:20:23,181
you wouldn't have
been seen again.

252
00:20:35,944 --> 00:20:37,903
There'd be, like,
a pocket diary, like this,

253
00:20:37,904 --> 00:20:40,156
that I'd be carrying with me.

254
00:20:40,740 --> 00:20:43,909
I played on sessions with
the Rolling Stones,

255
00:20:43,910 --> 00:20:45,994
David Bowie, Petula Clark...

256
00:20:45,995 --> 00:20:48,163
I was on the Kinks' records.

257
00:20:48,164 --> 00:20:50,207
The first Who record.

258
00:20:50,208 --> 00:20:52,543
I mean, it goes right
across the board.

259
00:20:53,086 --> 00:20:55,046
But I didn't do anything
with the Beatles.

260
00:21:22,699 --> 00:21:24,950
I did quite a lot
of work with Donovan

261
00:21:24,951 --> 00:21:27,787
and I really enjoyed
working with him.

262
00:21:28,329 --> 00:21:30,998
And Mickie Most
was his producer.

263
00:21:33,459 --> 00:21:36,253
These sessions were great
'cause I could watch

264
00:21:36,254 --> 00:21:38,964
and I could ask questions
about things,

265
00:21:38,965 --> 00:21:40,298
and I certainly did.

266
00:21:40,299 --> 00:21:43,093
I made it my business
to ask engineers

267
00:21:43,094 --> 00:21:46,680
how certain effects were done,
like tape echo and reverb.

268
00:21:46,681 --> 00:21:49,474
And you could see the way
that they were miking

269
00:21:49,475 --> 00:21:50,977
various instruments.

270
00:21:51,853 --> 00:21:53,687
And, basically,
that's what I could do.

271
00:21:53,688 --> 00:21:55,605
I was allowed
to sort of do that.

272
00:21:55,606 --> 00:21:58,108
Not only that, I got a chance
to have a solo as well.

273
00:21:58,109 --> 00:21:59,444
So that was good.

274
00:22:09,829 --> 00:22:10,829
I went up to Mickie Most

275
00:22:10,830 --> 00:22:12,290
and said,
"Do you need an arranger?"

276
00:22:12,540 --> 00:22:14,958
"You do..."
"Yeah, I do arrangements.

277
00:22:14,959 --> 00:22:17,128
"Yeah. All the time." And...

278
00:22:17,754 --> 00:22:19,963
I hadn't really
done that before.

279
00:22:19,964 --> 00:22:23,926
But my dad had always taught me
never turn down work, right?

280
00:22:24,552 --> 00:22:27,972
And had a great working
relationship with him.

281
00:22:29,599 --> 00:22:32,350
He used to drive by
in his yellow Rolls-Royce

282
00:22:32,351 --> 00:22:35,270
and drop an acetate
through my letterbox

283
00:22:35,271 --> 00:22:39,400
with "You know what we want.
It's Friday." And that was it.

284
00:22:39,984 --> 00:22:42,736
I'd be playing bass in sessions
all day, seven days a week.

285
00:22:42,737 --> 00:22:44,696
So I had to write arrangements
at night.

286
00:22:44,697 --> 00:22:46,490
And then
nine o'clock in the morning

287
00:22:46,491 --> 00:22:49,076
I'd go to the session
and do the songs.

288
00:22:49,077 --> 00:22:52,204
I did all the arrangements
for Herman's Hermits

289
00:22:52,205 --> 00:22:53,456
and Donovan,

290
00:22:54,290 --> 00:22:56,542
and had quite a lot
to do with Lulu.

291
00:22:56,667 --> 00:22:57,959
'Cause I did all
her arrangements

292
00:22:57,960 --> 00:22:59,044
with Mickie Most as well.

293
00:23:14,936 --> 00:23:16,686
I even did
film work with her,

294
00:23:16,687 --> 00:23:19,774
like To Sir, With Love,
which was a big hit in America.

295
00:23:21,025 --> 00:23:23,611
This was considered the
pinnacle of the music business.

296
00:23:24,779 --> 00:23:26,739
My dad was incredibly proud

297
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,199
when people he knew
and respected

298
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,827
would come... "I saw your
John on so-and-so session

299
00:23:31,828 --> 00:23:34,496
"the other day. He's okay.
He's good, you know."

300
00:23:34,497 --> 00:23:35,665
And...

301
00:23:36,249 --> 00:23:37,416
Puffed him up a lot.

302
00:23:41,295 --> 00:23:43,171
I was in
a lot of different bands

303
00:23:43,172 --> 00:23:44,840
around that time.

304
00:23:44,841 --> 00:23:47,801
And I did a couple adventures
in recording studios.

305
00:23:47,802 --> 00:23:51,848
But my parents,
they weren't that keen at all.

306
00:23:52,390 --> 00:23:56,477
In fact, when I cut my record,
the first single on CBS,

307
00:23:57,186 --> 00:24:00,648
they didn't know anything
about it, 'cause I, um...

308
00:24:01,732 --> 00:24:04,985
I was given the alternative
of staying in the world of

309
00:24:04,986 --> 00:24:06,362
academia and...

310
00:24:07,530 --> 00:24:10,032
my article...
Training for my articles

311
00:24:11,701 --> 00:24:13,828
as a chartered accountant or...

312
00:24:15,329 --> 00:24:17,664
you just go out into the world
and do what you gotta do.

313
00:24:17,665 --> 00:24:18,916
So I did.

314
00:24:19,625 --> 00:24:21,169
So I waved everybody goodbye.

315
00:24:29,594 --> 00:24:32,345
I knew there were singers
who had more chops than me,

316
00:24:32,346 --> 00:24:36,017
but I was just out there,
throwing it up in the air.

317
00:24:37,310 --> 00:24:42,148
I had caftans, painted faces,
bells ringing, incense blazing,

318
00:24:42,523 --> 00:24:44,358
...and was just...

319
00:24:44,942 --> 00:24:47,402
Robert used to get into
more trouble and mischief

320
00:24:47,403 --> 00:24:49,613
than any other friends
I have up here, you know.

321
00:24:49,614 --> 00:24:50,907
It's ridiculous, you know.

322
00:24:52,074 --> 00:24:55,828
John came up to me and said,
"Well, what's all that about?"

323
00:24:56,913 --> 00:25:00,081
So I said, "Yeah, you're right.
What is that all about?"

324
00:25:00,082 --> 00:25:01,791
It was the end of '67.

325
00:25:01,792 --> 00:25:03,585
We got back together

326
00:25:03,586 --> 00:25:05,921
and the playing
went incredibly well.

327
00:25:21,437 --> 00:25:23,689
So we formed
the Band of Joy.

328
00:25:23,856 --> 00:25:26,483
We wanted to mix the blues
with psychedelia.

329
00:25:26,484 --> 00:25:29,361
We wanted to be a part
of that huge movement.

330
00:25:29,362 --> 00:25:31,029
We played at Frank Freeman's.

331
00:25:31,030 --> 00:25:32,907
We played Middle Earth
in London.

332
00:25:34,242 --> 00:25:37,203
We went down to Tin Pan Alley
and we recorded Memory Lane,

333
00:25:37,745 --> 00:25:40,623
which was my first adventure
in songwriting.

334
00:25:41,832 --> 00:25:43,542
Sadly, we never got it released.

335
00:25:44,293 --> 00:25:45,920
And not many people liked us.

336
00:25:46,462 --> 00:25:48,630
But we liked us.

337
00:26:16,575 --> 00:26:18,493
Pat was screaming
at John, saying,

338
00:26:18,494 --> 00:26:20,413
"I told you
to stay away from him.

339
00:26:20,955 --> 00:26:22,205
"He'll get you nowhere."

340
00:26:22,206 --> 00:26:24,833
And so he went off with Tim Rose

341
00:26:24,834 --> 00:26:27,378
and played I Got a Loneliness
and Morning Dew.

342
00:26:27,753 --> 00:26:29,714
That's how
it used to go, really.

343
00:26:30,047 --> 00:26:32,465
I mean, we had a kid then. So
you'd end up having to get a job

344
00:26:32,466 --> 00:26:34,467
in a professional group
to get a little bit of money

345
00:26:34,468 --> 00:26:36,387
to sort of live with, really.

346
00:26:37,305 --> 00:26:40,933
I just fell from favor
everywhere.

347
00:26:42,310 --> 00:26:43,936
Things were pretty tough
for me then.

348
00:26:44,603 --> 00:26:48,523
I had a brown suitcase
and some penicillin,

349
00:26:48,524 --> 00:26:50,317
and I was homeless.
I had nowhere to live.

350
00:26:50,318 --> 00:26:51,402
So I...

351
00:26:52,903 --> 00:26:55,406
I got a gig with this band
called Obs-Tweedle.

352
00:27:06,375 --> 00:27:08,543
I was totally accepted

353
00:27:08,544 --> 00:27:11,005
in the world of being
a studio musician.

354
00:27:11,547 --> 00:27:14,674
I had been caught up
doing the things

355
00:27:14,675 --> 00:27:18,053
that all of the real old-timers
when I joined in were doing.

356
00:27:18,054 --> 00:27:19,429
Like Muzak.

357
00:27:19,430 --> 00:27:22,515
Muzak is what they would
call, like, lift music.

358
00:27:22,516 --> 00:27:24,351
You know? Um...

359
00:27:24,352 --> 00:27:28,146
Very, very difficult to do

360
00:27:28,147 --> 00:27:29,439
a Muzak session,

361
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,316
'cause you'd have
a whole ream of music

362
00:27:31,317 --> 00:27:33,568
and you'd have to keep
turning it and playing it,

363
00:27:33,569 --> 00:27:34,737
and turning it and playing it.

364
00:27:35,112 --> 00:27:37,572
To do that, to actually
get halfway through

365
00:27:37,573 --> 00:27:40,533
without being physically sick
was quite a miracle.

366
00:27:40,534 --> 00:27:43,412
So I knew

367
00:27:43,913 --> 00:27:46,414
that it was time
to sort of come out of there.

368
00:27:46,415 --> 00:27:50,001
All my friends, like Eric
and Jeff, were all in bands

369
00:27:50,002 --> 00:27:51,795
and they were having
a great time.

370
00:27:51,796 --> 00:27:53,922
And I thought, "I've got
a lot that I really want

371
00:27:53,923 --> 00:27:55,591
"to be able to offer."

372
00:27:56,425 --> 00:27:57,967
And Jeff Beck said,

373
00:27:57,968 --> 00:28:00,762
"It'd be really good if you
came in with the Yardbirds."

374
00:28:00,763 --> 00:28:02,972
So I thought, "How would you
really like to play

375
00:28:02,973 --> 00:28:04,599
"if you had the chance?"

376
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,602
"Right. You do it. Do it now.
This is your opportunity."

377
00:28:33,838 --> 00:28:36,005
Going into the Yardbirds
with Jeff,

378
00:28:36,006 --> 00:28:37,173
it was touring with a friend

379
00:28:37,174 --> 00:28:38,968
and having, you know,
a really good time.

380
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,137
But in the middle of
an American tour,

381
00:28:42,138 --> 00:28:45,141
he left the band,
and I was quite shocked.

382
00:28:45,933 --> 00:28:50,645
But it gave me the opportunity
to try a totally new direction.

383
00:28:50,646 --> 00:28:53,398
So I took over on lead guitar.

384
00:29:00,906 --> 00:29:03,241
Nobody was interested
in the Yardbirds

385
00:29:03,242 --> 00:29:05,118
over here in England anymore.

386
00:29:05,119 --> 00:29:08,580
So we started to really grow
our underground following

387
00:29:08,581 --> 00:29:09,874
in America.

388
00:29:10,624 --> 00:29:14,502
And it was just a thrill,
an absolute thrill,

389
00:29:14,503 --> 00:29:18,006
just really getting a feel
for the West Coast music scene.

390
00:29:25,306 --> 00:29:27,223
But we were up against
Mickie Most,

391
00:29:27,224 --> 00:29:28,767
who was our producer,

392
00:29:29,268 --> 00:29:31,686
so we were recording
all these awful singles

393
00:29:31,687 --> 00:29:34,565
for the AM radio,
which was the pop radio,

394
00:29:35,191 --> 00:29:38,360
and I didn't want to be
making singles anymore.

395
00:29:39,778 --> 00:29:41,154
Being in America

396
00:29:41,155 --> 00:29:43,698
and seeing the advent of
the FM underground radio,

397
00:29:43,699 --> 00:29:46,451
which was playing
whole sides of albums...

398
00:29:46,452 --> 00:29:50,164
I knew that this was gonna be
the way to go in the future.

399
00:29:50,706 --> 00:29:52,415
So that was my plan.

400
00:29:52,416 --> 00:29:54,709
To make albums that
would be played,

401
00:29:54,710 --> 00:29:57,505
a whole side,
on the FM stations.

402
00:30:04,762 --> 00:30:06,763
I had this new sound
for the Yardbirds

403
00:30:06,764 --> 00:30:08,598
already worked out in my head.

404
00:30:08,599 --> 00:30:12,143
I already knew exactly what I
wanted to be doing, guitar-wise,

405
00:30:12,144 --> 00:30:14,103
on the new stuff
that I had in mind,

406
00:30:14,104 --> 00:30:15,480
like Dazed and Confused,

407
00:30:15,481 --> 00:30:18,483
which was inspired
by Jake Holmes.

408
00:30:43,092 --> 00:30:46,679
That guitar
was given to me by Jeff Beck.

409
00:30:47,346 --> 00:30:50,224
I painted it.
I consecrated the guitar.

410
00:30:51,559 --> 00:30:55,104
This is the guitar that takes
the full journey,

411
00:30:55,854 --> 00:30:59,941
like Excalibur,
the mythical sword.

412
00:31:14,832 --> 00:31:17,918
I went to a palm reading
in LA.

413
00:31:18,836 --> 00:31:20,671
And the palmist said,

414
00:31:21,088 --> 00:31:24,591
"You're gonna be
making a decision very soon

415
00:31:24,592 --> 00:31:26,510
"which is gonna
change your life."

416
00:31:27,052 --> 00:31:30,639
A meeting happened, like, two
or three days after the palmist,

417
00:31:31,223 --> 00:31:32,390
where the rest of
the group said,

418
00:31:32,391 --> 00:31:33,684
"That's it. We wanna fold."

419
00:31:35,519 --> 00:31:36,729
I mean, it was a shock.

420
00:31:39,940 --> 00:31:43,818
I immediately went, "Well,
now I know what I'm gonna do.

421
00:31:43,819 --> 00:31:45,361
"I'm gonna form my own group,

422
00:31:45,362 --> 00:31:47,740
"and I know exactly what it is
that I wanna do with it,"

423
00:31:48,365 --> 00:31:51,285
and I just needed to find
a powerful vocalist.

424
00:31:51,827 --> 00:31:53,995
And so there was a singer
called Terry Reid.

425
00:31:53,996 --> 00:31:55,538
He registered with me

426
00:31:55,539 --> 00:31:57,916
and I thought,
"I'm gonna aim for him."

427
00:31:58,626 --> 00:32:02,004
I asked Peter Grant if he could
track down Terry Reid.

428
00:32:02,713 --> 00:32:05,006
Peter Grant was the manager
of the Yardbirds,

429
00:32:05,007 --> 00:32:07,091
and, bless him,
he really believed in me.

430
00:32:07,092 --> 00:32:09,219
This is the thing,
that once the Yardbirds folded,

431
00:32:09,345 --> 00:32:10,928
and I said,
"Well, I wanna start a group,"

432
00:32:10,929 --> 00:32:13,723
he was there. You know?
He said, "Great," you know?

433
00:32:13,724 --> 00:32:15,351
And "Whatever help I can give."

434
00:32:15,934 --> 00:32:19,271
Peter Grant and Mickie Most
were in the same office,

435
00:32:19,897 --> 00:32:21,606
and they had two desks,

436
00:32:21,607 --> 00:32:24,735
and they more or less faced
each other across the room.

437
00:32:26,070 --> 00:32:28,071
The next thing that I hear is,

438
00:32:28,072 --> 00:32:31,199
"Unfortunately Terry Reid's
signed a solo deal

439
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:32,325
"with Mickie Most."

440
00:32:32,326 --> 00:32:33,744
And I... "Oh, yeah?"

441
00:32:34,328 --> 00:32:35,787
- Off the press?
- Right. I know that one.

442
00:32:35,788 --> 00:32:37,121
- For you.
- Right.

443
00:32:37,122 --> 00:32:38,665
I thought,
"Wow. This is super ruthless."

444
00:32:38,666 --> 00:32:41,084
But nevertheless,
Terry Reid suggested

445
00:32:41,085 --> 00:32:43,628
a singer from the Midlands
in a band called Obs-Tweedle.

446
00:32:43,629 --> 00:32:44,712
And I thought,

447
00:32:44,713 --> 00:32:46,799
"This is an unusual name.
This is a bit odd."

448
00:32:47,424 --> 00:32:49,718
He and Peter Grant came up
to have a look at me.

449
00:32:51,095 --> 00:32:54,139
He asked me if I knew where
he could find Robert Plant.

450
00:32:55,349 --> 00:32:57,726
And I said, "Yeah. Right here."

451
00:32:58,227 --> 00:33:02,021
He was doing some wonderful
improvised vocals

452
00:33:02,022 --> 00:33:03,606
and I thought
they were marvelous.

453
00:33:03,607 --> 00:33:05,734
So I invited him round my house.

454
00:33:06,485 --> 00:33:08,654
I still had nowhere to live, sadly.

455
00:33:09,154 --> 00:33:12,532
So I took my suitcase
and got a train to Pangbourne

456
00:33:12,533 --> 00:33:14,284
and knocked on another door.

457
00:33:15,744 --> 00:33:17,745
Yeah. We had
a really good connection.

458
00:33:17,746 --> 00:33:20,957
And, uh, I think he was sort of
looking through my records...

459
00:33:20,958 --> 00:33:22,417
"I've got that one." You know?

460
00:33:22,418 --> 00:33:24,961
And I played him
a Joan Baez version

461
00:33:24,962 --> 00:33:26,587
of Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

462
00:33:26,588 --> 00:33:30,174
and said, "Well, if you
can sing that top line there,

463
00:33:30,175 --> 00:33:32,176
"I've got an arrangement
that goes with it."

464
00:33:32,177 --> 00:33:35,304
And it just really, really
dovetailed together.

465
00:33:35,305 --> 00:33:36,472
It was beautiful.

466
00:33:36,473 --> 00:33:39,350
He just sang beautifully.

467
00:33:51,572 --> 00:33:53,824
We knew something
was in the air.

468
00:33:55,033 --> 00:33:57,453
I could feel this stuff
around me.

469
00:33:58,537 --> 00:34:02,458
Jimmy's guitar playing
was just tremendous. Amazing.

470
00:34:05,711 --> 00:34:06,878
Jimmy then said to me,

471
00:34:06,879 --> 00:34:09,047
"Well, we've got
this drummer lined up."

472
00:34:09,214 --> 00:34:11,716
And before he went any further,
I said, "Wait a minute.

473
00:34:11,717 --> 00:34:13,676
"There is no drummer
on the planet

474
00:34:13,677 --> 00:34:16,263
"to compare with John Bonham.

475
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:18,140
"He's magnificent."

476
00:34:18,474 --> 00:34:20,100
He was playing with Tim Rose.

477
00:34:20,684 --> 00:34:22,226
Jimmy said, "Well,
if that's the case,

478
00:34:22,227 --> 00:34:23,811
"let's go and see him."

479
00:34:23,812 --> 00:34:27,356
And I said, "John, you've got
to listen to Jimmy play.

480
00:34:27,357 --> 00:34:30,319
"He's amazing."
John said, "Not a chance."

481
00:34:31,028 --> 00:34:32,904
I said, "You gotta be crazy.

482
00:34:32,905 --> 00:34:36,575
"You don't wanna do this stuff,
playing electric folk."

483
00:34:37,201 --> 00:34:39,786
"Come with me."
He said, "Pat would kill me."

484
00:34:39,787 --> 00:34:41,287
"Don't say that."

485
00:34:41,288 --> 00:34:43,457
I said, "I'll talk to Pat,
and your mom."

486
00:34:46,293 --> 00:34:50,088
My wife Mo read that
"Jimmy's forming a band.

487
00:34:50,631 --> 00:34:52,049
"You should give him a call.

488
00:34:52,549 --> 00:34:53,925
"See if he wants a bass player."

489
00:34:53,926 --> 00:34:55,134
Like, "No. I can't...

490
00:34:55,135 --> 00:34:57,094
"I've got this to do,
I've got that to do.

491
00:34:57,095 --> 00:34:58,846
"I got these... and albums..."

492
00:34:58,847 --> 00:35:00,807
"No," she said.
She just insisted.

493
00:35:00,808 --> 00:35:03,769
"Give him a call, please."
So I did.

494
00:35:04,353 --> 00:35:07,230
And I said, "Hey, Jim.
Heard you're forming a band."

495
00:35:07,231 --> 00:35:08,606
He went, "Yeah, yeah."

496
00:35:08,607 --> 00:35:10,733
I said,
"Do you want a bass player?"

497
00:35:10,734 --> 00:35:12,652
He went, "Well, actually, yes.

498
00:35:12,653 --> 00:35:14,821
"But there's a problem."
I said, "What's that?"

499
00:35:14,822 --> 00:35:17,490
He said, "Well, the drummer
is playing with Tim Rose

500
00:35:17,491 --> 00:35:20,536
"and he's getting 40 quid
a week. Can we best it?"

501
00:35:23,038 --> 00:35:25,207
So we decided, yeah,
we probably could.

502
00:35:27,042 --> 00:35:30,545
Peter Grant managed to
get a two-hour rehearsal space

503
00:35:30,546 --> 00:35:31,797
in Gerrard Street.

504
00:35:32,631 --> 00:35:36,551
So we all get there and
I've got my equipment set up.

505
00:35:36,552 --> 00:35:39,428
John Paul Jones is there
with his session equipment,

506
00:35:39,429 --> 00:35:41,556
uh, and John's got his drums.

507
00:35:41,557 --> 00:35:44,308
It literally was just
wall to wall amplifiers

508
00:35:44,309 --> 00:35:46,435
and we just picked one up...

509
00:35:46,436 --> 00:35:48,855
"Hello. How are you?"
"Right." You know?

510
00:35:48,856 --> 00:35:50,774
"I'm so-and-so.
He's so-and-so else."

511
00:35:51,483 --> 00:35:52,859
It was
quite strange, really,

512
00:35:52,860 --> 00:35:54,068
meeting John Paul and Jimmy.

513
00:35:54,069 --> 00:35:56,279
You know, coming from
where I'd come from, you know,

514
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,155
I'd sort of thought, you know,
it was a bit of a joke,

515
00:35:58,156 --> 00:36:00,283
getting telegrams and things,
you know.

516
00:36:00,284 --> 00:36:02,660
There's a chance of becoming
one of the Yardbirds.

517
00:36:02,661 --> 00:36:04,621
It's like a gift from heaven,
wasn't it?

518
00:36:05,163 --> 00:36:07,457
I said the first number
that I want to do

519
00:36:08,083 --> 00:36:09,417
is Train Kept A-Rollin'.

520
00:36:09,418 --> 00:36:11,460
Train Kept A-Rollin'.
"Do you know it?"

521
00:36:11,461 --> 00:36:14,547
I went, "Nope."
He said, "Well, it's a 12-bar."

522
00:36:15,632 --> 00:36:17,925
"It's got this riff."
"Okay. Count it in."

523
00:36:17,926 --> 00:36:19,261
And that was it.

524
00:36:19,928 --> 00:36:21,679
And the room just exploded.

525
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,265
We just kept playing it
and doing, like, solo breaks

526
00:36:24,266 --> 00:36:27,143
and all the rest of it,
and Robert's improvising.

527
00:36:27,144 --> 00:36:28,978
I'd never heard
anything like it.

528
00:36:28,979 --> 00:36:30,771
I was expecting
some cool soul singer

529
00:36:30,772 --> 00:36:33,442
and there's this
screaming maniac

530
00:36:34,401 --> 00:36:36,904
with this fantastic voice
and a fantastic range.

531
00:36:37,070 --> 00:36:38,905
You know, I was like,
"What are you doing up there?

532
00:36:38,906 --> 00:36:40,698
"You'll hurt yourself, man."

533
00:36:40,699 --> 00:36:43,911
It was devastating
because it seemed like

534
00:36:45,037 --> 00:36:46,996
that had been
what I'd been waiting for.

535
00:36:46,997 --> 00:36:48,623
I was pretty shy.

536
00:36:48,624 --> 00:36:51,250
The best thing to do when
you're in a situation like that

537
00:36:51,251 --> 00:36:53,586
is not to say much
and just soldier along

538
00:36:53,587 --> 00:36:55,379
and suss it all out,
sort of thing.

539
00:36:55,380 --> 00:36:57,006
Well, being a bass player,

540
00:36:57,007 --> 00:36:59,050
and he was probably thinking
the same thing,

541
00:36:59,051 --> 00:37:00,676
you know,
because rhythm sections

542
00:37:00,677 --> 00:37:03,430
are very sensitive creatures
really...

543
00:37:04,306 --> 00:37:05,307
Um...

544
00:37:06,141 --> 00:37:09,686
I just needed to know that
we could work together.

545
00:37:09,853 --> 00:37:12,021
The first time
we played together, you know,

546
00:37:12,022 --> 00:37:14,023
you could tell it was
gonna be a good group.

547
00:37:14,024 --> 00:37:15,733
You know, not being
sort of flashy about it.

548
00:37:17,611 --> 00:37:19,278
But I am.

549
00:37:20,989 --> 00:37:22,198
Marvelous.

550
00:37:22,199 --> 00:37:26,285
When it finally came to a halt,
I'm absolutely convinced

551
00:37:26,286 --> 00:37:29,956
that everyone knew that that was
a life-changing experience.

552
00:37:29,957 --> 00:37:32,041
And I think there was
so much kinetic energy,

553
00:37:32,042 --> 00:37:35,127
so much energy that needed
to come out for everybody.

554
00:37:35,128 --> 00:37:36,504
"Let's take it to the next stage

555
00:37:36,505 --> 00:37:38,089
"and let's take it
to Pangbourne."

556
00:37:49,559 --> 00:37:51,520
Pangbourne is on
the River Thames.

557
00:37:52,020 --> 00:37:55,106
I remember when I first
came across this boat house,

558
00:37:55,107 --> 00:37:57,359
I just thought,
"It's absolute magic."

559
00:37:57,901 --> 00:37:59,527
It had a good energy to it.

560
00:37:59,528 --> 00:38:02,990
And it was just a cauldron
of creativity.

561
00:38:03,365 --> 00:38:04,699
And this is the house
that I lived in

562
00:38:04,700 --> 00:38:07,327
in 1967 through to 1970.

563
00:38:08,036 --> 00:38:11,372
We set up initially
in the upstairs of the house.

564
00:38:11,373 --> 00:38:13,249
Where those windows are
at the top,

565
00:38:13,250 --> 00:38:14,500
there's a largish room

566
00:38:14,501 --> 00:38:17,503
and that was where we did
the rehearsals.

567
00:38:23,385 --> 00:38:26,637
We were overlooking the river.
It was beautiful.

568
00:38:26,638 --> 00:38:28,973
And we just got to know
each other

569
00:38:28,974 --> 00:38:30,307
and worked pretty hard.

570
00:38:30,308 --> 00:38:31,517
We weren't slackers.

571
00:38:31,518 --> 00:38:33,394
Our aim wasn't to be seen
on the telly.

572
00:38:33,395 --> 00:38:36,313
We all wanted to play music
very badly.

573
00:38:36,314 --> 00:38:39,192
We were working on
the material for the album,

574
00:38:39,693 --> 00:38:42,737
and then we were putting in
other material as well

575
00:38:42,738 --> 00:38:44,573
that was gonna fill out the set.

576
00:38:45,615 --> 00:38:48,200
We were rehearsing for days,

577
00:38:48,201 --> 00:38:49,995
and it would have been
pretty loud.

578
00:38:50,787 --> 00:38:52,788
You'd hear it.
You'd hear it over here.

579
00:38:52,789 --> 00:38:55,666
And I did expect somebody
to be knocking on the door

580
00:38:55,667 --> 00:38:57,418
to complain, but nobody did.

581
00:39:05,510 --> 00:39:07,303
We got together
very quickly

582
00:39:07,304 --> 00:39:09,180
because there was
already sort of a tour

583
00:39:09,181 --> 00:39:11,099
that had to be done
by the Yardbirds,

584
00:39:11,266 --> 00:39:13,559
which was a few dates
in Scandinavia.

585
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:15,895
It was convenient that,
lo and behold,

586
00:39:15,896 --> 00:39:17,397
there was this tour
that we could do.

587
00:39:17,814 --> 00:39:19,857
So we could go there
and have the benefit

588
00:39:19,858 --> 00:39:21,442
of playing in front of
an audience

589
00:39:21,443 --> 00:39:23,487
away from London
and all the rest of it.

590
00:39:24,988 --> 00:39:26,822
Off to Scandinavia
we went

591
00:39:26,823 --> 00:39:30,242
for our first concert
as the Yardbirds.

592
00:39:30,243 --> 00:39:31,786
And we went on an airplane,

593
00:39:31,787 --> 00:39:33,454
me and John sitting next
to each other

594
00:39:33,455 --> 00:39:34,872
having a cigarette,

595
00:39:34,873 --> 00:39:37,166
seeing lots and lots
of silverware,

596
00:39:37,167 --> 00:39:38,919
knives and forks in front of us.

597
00:39:39,419 --> 00:39:41,253
Stuff that we would normally
have stolen

598
00:39:41,254 --> 00:39:42,881
was there in profusion.

599
00:39:43,507 --> 00:39:45,591
Couldn't have even got
enough of it in our bags

600
00:39:45,592 --> 00:39:47,718
to get off the plane without
having somebody help us.

601
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:50,137
It was great.
Everything was there.

602
00:39:50,138 --> 00:39:52,766
Gin, tonic, people.

603
00:39:53,517 --> 00:39:55,519
People being kind and charming.

604
00:39:56,269 --> 00:39:58,522
Air conditioning.
It was... Off we went.

605
00:39:59,022 --> 00:40:00,857
Because you couldn't...
What could you do?

606
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,027
Couldn't go back to Mommy then.

607
00:40:09,699 --> 00:40:13,202
When I told my colleagues
and the people that employ me

608
00:40:13,203 --> 00:40:15,162
that I'm giving up session work,

609
00:40:15,163 --> 00:40:17,414
I'm gonna join
a rock 'n' roll band,

610
00:40:17,415 --> 00:40:20,251
everybody said, "You're mad.
You're completely crazy."

611
00:40:26,174 --> 00:40:28,634
On bass guitar, John Paul Jones.

612
00:40:28,635 --> 00:40:30,053
John Paul Jones.

613
00:40:34,224 --> 00:40:36,726
On drums, John Bonham.

614
00:40:41,481 --> 00:40:43,525
Lead guitar, Jimmy Page.

615
00:40:49,156 --> 00:40:51,073
And myself, Robert Plant.

616
00:40:55,078 --> 00:40:57,122
Yes! All right!

617
00:41:05,964 --> 00:41:06,965
Yes!

618
00:41:12,053 --> 00:41:13,846
Yeah!

619
00:43:40,869 --> 00:43:42,119
Yes!

620
00:45:43,408 --> 00:45:45,117
It went so well, really,

621
00:45:45,118 --> 00:45:47,327
that, you know, the group
started to make the album

622
00:45:47,328 --> 00:45:49,913
straight after coming back
from Scandinavia. You know.

623
00:45:49,914 --> 00:45:53,126
How long had we been together
about then? What, a month?

624
00:45:54,085 --> 00:45:56,712
We went
into Olympic Studios

625
00:45:56,713 --> 00:45:58,756
at night over a few weeks.

626
00:45:59,591 --> 00:46:03,010
The very first time we go in
is the 25th of September

627
00:46:03,011 --> 00:46:04,386
in 1968.

628
00:46:04,387 --> 00:46:07,640
"Arrival time
from 11:00 p.m. onwards."

629
00:46:09,392 --> 00:46:10,559
Let's take one.

630
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:11,644
Right.

631
00:46:12,437 --> 00:46:14,771
There's Glyn Johns, dear Glyn,

632
00:46:14,772 --> 00:46:17,232
at the controls of
the Helios desk

633
00:46:17,233 --> 00:46:19,776
that was custom-built
for Olympic Studios,

634
00:46:19,777 --> 00:46:21,613
and he was doing
the engineering on it.

635
00:46:22,489 --> 00:46:24,573
Drumming set one.

636
00:46:24,574 --> 00:46:26,116
John, Jimmy,
and John Paul

637
00:46:26,117 --> 00:46:29,287
were much more connected
in these sessions than I was,

638
00:46:29,996 --> 00:46:32,415
because they were
recording it live.

639
00:46:33,374 --> 00:46:35,292
They had to make it work
on the floor.

640
00:46:35,293 --> 00:46:36,627
A take is a take.

641
00:46:36,628 --> 00:46:39,379
So it was an electric
atmosphere.

642
00:46:39,380 --> 00:46:41,925
And I just tried to land
on top of it all.

643
00:46:43,968 --> 00:46:46,678
John Paul Jones brought
the most amazing bass playing,

644
00:46:46,679 --> 00:46:50,058
and he was quite a force to be
reckoned with, musically.

645
00:46:55,230 --> 00:46:57,690
I was very much in love
with John's right foot.

646
00:46:59,025 --> 00:47:01,152
I had great respect
for it.

647
00:47:01,736 --> 00:47:04,321
And I used to try
and highlight it

648
00:47:04,322 --> 00:47:05,698
and help it along

649
00:47:06,324 --> 00:47:08,493
and give it space.

650
00:47:09,035 --> 00:47:10,452
Uh, take three.

651
00:47:10,453 --> 00:47:13,539
So I could be doing a riff
and just leave a note out

652
00:47:13,540 --> 00:47:15,707
and something of his
would pop through

653
00:47:15,708 --> 00:47:18,211
and the rhythm would just
suddenly come alive.

654
00:50:06,587 --> 00:50:08,797
Well, I was gonna throw
everything I could at it.

655
00:50:08,798 --> 00:50:10,924
You know, I was gonna play
acoustic guitar,

656
00:50:10,925 --> 00:50:13,343
I played pedal steel guitar,

657
00:50:13,344 --> 00:50:15,638
I played slide guitar,
electric guitar.

658
00:50:16,305 --> 00:50:18,807
I wanted to have so many
different textures

659
00:50:18,808 --> 00:50:21,560
and moods on it
that the whole album

660
00:50:21,561 --> 00:50:24,896
would just
totally arrest the listeners

661
00:50:24,897 --> 00:50:28,985
and take them to a realm that
they hadn't been in before.

662
00:50:30,069 --> 00:50:31,695
The guitar's not on
a regular tuning

663
00:50:31,696 --> 00:50:33,113
on Black Mountain Side.

664
00:50:33,114 --> 00:50:34,991
It is very much like
a sitar tuning.

665
00:50:40,747 --> 00:50:43,750
Jimmy and John Paul were
really at the top of their game.

666
00:50:44,625 --> 00:50:47,378
They'd played on so many
diverse pieces of music

667
00:50:48,421 --> 00:50:50,672
that there was nowhere that they
couldn't find themselves

668
00:50:50,673 --> 00:50:52,174
comfortably going to.

669
00:50:52,175 --> 00:50:55,719
So that gave us a whole
magnificent bunch of colors

670
00:50:55,720 --> 00:50:56,803
to play with.

671
00:52:16,843 --> 00:52:18,344
Jimmy produced
the album.

672
00:52:18,845 --> 00:52:19,928
Which was great, you know,

673
00:52:19,929 --> 00:52:21,263
because it's got
a different sound,

674
00:52:21,264 --> 00:52:22,390
and I like that.

675
00:52:22,849 --> 00:52:25,100
He had all these ideas
of microphone placement

676
00:52:25,101 --> 00:52:27,562
to get distance, so he knew
what he wanted to hear.

677
00:52:28,938 --> 00:52:30,897
There were some
really complex things

678
00:52:30,898 --> 00:52:32,650
that went on during the mixing,

679
00:52:32,817 --> 00:52:36,111
like the backwards echo
that comes in You Shook Me.

680
00:52:36,112 --> 00:52:38,864
When you turn the tape round
and apply the echo

681
00:52:38,865 --> 00:52:40,448
and then turn it back over

682
00:52:40,449 --> 00:52:42,617
and then you get the echo
coming in reverse.

683
00:52:55,798 --> 00:52:58,425
I was cross-fading
from one song into another

684
00:52:58,426 --> 00:52:59,968
and all these sort of tricks,

685
00:52:59,969 --> 00:53:02,429
so that when people
listened to the whole album,

686
00:53:02,430 --> 00:53:05,515
as I say, it would just
absolutely demand attention.

687
00:53:05,516 --> 00:53:08,518
Well, I mean, it was amazing.
Yeah.

688
00:53:08,519 --> 00:53:11,521
I had a pair of those
big quad electrostatic speakers

689
00:53:11,522 --> 00:53:13,231
in my front room.

690
00:53:13,232 --> 00:53:15,526
You could sort of sit
almost in them.

691
00:53:15,985 --> 00:53:17,903
And I just used to play it loud.

692
00:53:35,630 --> 00:53:38,590
If you finance
the album yourself,

693
00:53:38,591 --> 00:53:40,550
you're in a much better position

694
00:53:40,551 --> 00:53:43,470
than if you're going in with,
like, a demo tape.

695
00:53:43,471 --> 00:53:45,263
So, if you knew what you
were doing,

696
00:53:45,264 --> 00:53:48,767
it made sense
to complete the album

697
00:53:48,768 --> 00:53:51,312
and then go round and do a deal.

698
00:53:55,274 --> 00:53:57,108
The American producer Bert Berns

699
00:53:57,109 --> 00:54:01,029
had really done a great PR job
for me at Atlantic Records.

700
00:54:01,030 --> 00:54:03,990
When he took me there in 1964,

701
00:54:03,991 --> 00:54:06,369
and I said we should
aim at Atlantic...

702
00:54:07,203 --> 00:54:08,496
So that's what we did.

703
00:54:17,171 --> 00:54:19,839
Yeah.
Yeah. We'd done our bit,

704
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:22,300
and Jimmy and Peter
were going to convince people

705
00:54:22,301 --> 00:54:24,386
that they really needed it.

706
00:54:24,387 --> 00:54:27,640
Jimmy had the kind of keys
to the beginnings of a kingdom.

707
00:54:28,349 --> 00:54:30,600
And he went off to New York
with Peter,

708
00:54:30,601 --> 00:54:32,602
and through them,
they got to see Jerry Wexler.

709
00:55:01,424 --> 00:55:03,675
We put it on,
and that was a great moment

710
00:55:03,676 --> 00:55:06,344
to actually be able to play it,
regardless of what they thought,

711
00:55:06,345 --> 00:55:10,682
to actually be playing it
to, you know, Jerry Wexler.

712
00:55:39,003 --> 00:55:41,379
Atlantic wasn't allowed
to remix anything.

713
00:55:41,380 --> 00:55:42,964
It was perfect. It was done.

714
00:55:42,965 --> 00:55:45,592
The sequencing was perfect.
There was nothing...

715
00:55:45,593 --> 00:55:47,762
Certainly no singles
are gonna be taken off it.

716
00:55:50,473 --> 00:55:54,059
Having seen a situation
whereby singles

717
00:55:54,060 --> 00:55:56,311
have broken the spirit
of a band,

718
00:55:56,312 --> 00:55:59,064
I didn't want it to break
the spirit of this band.

719
00:55:59,065 --> 00:56:02,984
And I made a point of saying,
"We're an album band.

720
00:56:02,985 --> 00:56:04,904
"We're not doing singles."

721
00:56:05,738 --> 00:56:07,989
We could call the shots
because we owned the album.

722
00:56:13,579 --> 00:56:16,372
And here I am,
signing a contract.

723
00:56:16,373 --> 00:56:19,292
Then there's Peter,
looking really cool.

724
00:56:19,293 --> 00:56:21,753
Looking quite like a Mafia don.

725
00:56:41,565 --> 00:56:43,525
Peter Grant and Jimmy
had fixed it

726
00:56:43,526 --> 00:56:47,905
so that Atlantic had no say
in what we did whatsoever.

727
00:56:49,198 --> 00:56:51,658
They went there saying,
"Look, you want this band,

728
00:56:51,659 --> 00:56:54,370
"and we're gonna give you
the music." But...

729
00:56:55,788 --> 00:56:58,373
Peter Grant wouldn't let
any record executives

730
00:56:58,374 --> 00:57:00,042
anywhere near the studio.

731
00:57:00,584 --> 00:57:01,835
Or the band.

732
00:57:01,836 --> 00:57:04,462
And they were terrified of him,
which was brilliant.

733
00:57:04,463 --> 00:57:06,841
To have that freedom...
I mean, it was unheard of.

734
00:57:11,804 --> 00:57:13,805
Rather than
keep the Yardbirds name,

735
00:57:13,806 --> 00:57:16,182
the group became strong enough
to start fresh,

736
00:57:16,183 --> 00:57:18,184
and it was a decision that
we'd change the name.

737
00:57:18,185 --> 00:57:21,271
Keith Moon had suggested
a name, Led Zeppelin.

738
00:57:21,272 --> 00:57:23,815
I thought that'd be
a great name to use.

739
00:57:23,816 --> 00:57:26,651
I thought, "Yeah.
That's a terrible name.

740
00:57:26,652 --> 00:57:28,946
"Nobody's gonna remember that."

741
00:57:29,947 --> 00:57:31,698
But I couldn't come up
with a better one,

742
00:57:31,699 --> 00:57:33,284
so Led Zeppelin we were.

743
00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:39,373
So, suddenly I was a dad
and I was nearly married.

744
00:57:40,124 --> 00:57:42,458
And I was in this group that
was now gonna be called

745
00:57:42,459 --> 00:57:43,752
Led Zeppelin.

746
00:57:44,253 --> 00:57:47,131
So I went back to my parents
with an open heart.

747
00:57:48,007 --> 00:57:49,758
I called up my mom and dad
and said,

748
00:57:50,342 --> 00:57:53,511
"You might like to meet
your possible,

749
00:57:53,512 --> 00:57:56,890
"most probable,
daughter-in-law-to-be."

750
00:57:56,891 --> 00:57:58,559
And so, of course,

751
00:58:00,186 --> 00:58:01,353
they opened the door.

752
00:58:04,773 --> 00:58:09,236
November the 9th, 1968,
we played Middle Earth.

753
00:58:09,820 --> 00:58:13,448
And just to celebrate the fact
that we did that gig,

754
00:58:13,449 --> 00:58:15,034
I got married on the same day.

755
00:58:15,784 --> 00:58:18,746
Trying to get as many things in
in a day as I can.

756
00:58:19,955 --> 00:58:21,789
The car broke down
on the way to the gig.

757
00:58:21,790 --> 00:58:23,416
All that stuff, you know.

758
00:58:23,417 --> 00:58:25,418
We'd figured out
what we were gonna play

759
00:58:25,419 --> 00:58:26,878
and how we were gonna play it.

760
00:58:26,879 --> 00:58:29,505
And the first three numbers
were just bam, bam, bam.

761
00:58:29,506 --> 00:58:33,092
You could see people going,
"What on earth is going on?"

762
01:01:31,605 --> 01:01:33,106
It's a funny thing,
you know.

763
01:01:33,107 --> 01:01:34,774
You couldn't play big gigs
in England.

764
01:01:34,775 --> 01:01:35,858
You know, you'd say,

765
01:01:35,859 --> 01:01:37,693
"Do you want to take
some dates on Led Zeppelin?"

766
01:01:37,694 --> 01:01:39,112
and all this sort of thing.

767
01:01:39,113 --> 01:01:41,240
People wouldn't even
book the band.

768
01:01:42,199 --> 01:01:44,325
So Atlantic decided that

769
01:01:44,326 --> 01:01:47,412
the record is gonna come out
on the 12th of January,

770
01:01:47,413 --> 01:01:49,247
but only in America.

771
01:01:49,248 --> 01:01:52,209
So Peter gets a tour
together for us.

772
01:01:53,919 --> 01:01:56,129
It was Christmas Eve,
I think, we had to leave.

773
01:01:56,130 --> 01:01:58,423
You suddenly find
the album's coming out

774
01:01:58,424 --> 01:02:00,968
so we sort of had to go
to America to play.

775
01:02:02,052 --> 01:02:04,805
I was concerned I wouldn't
feel home there at all.

776
01:02:06,056 --> 01:02:07,056
Pat kept saying,

777
01:02:07,057 --> 01:02:09,016
"I told you
not to work with him."

778
01:02:09,017 --> 01:02:12,437
But she and my wife Maureen
were really good friends,

779
01:02:12,438 --> 01:02:16,399
so they had the mutual overview
of celebration

780
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:19,278
for what John was doing
and what I was doing.

781
01:02:19,778 --> 01:02:21,196
We just rolled with it.

782
01:02:22,948 --> 01:02:26,784
Going to America was my dream,
for every reason.

783
01:02:35,961 --> 01:02:39,922
We're supporting
Vanilla Fudge to begin with,

784
01:02:39,923 --> 01:02:43,218
and they were the only group
that took us under their wing.

785
01:02:44,845 --> 01:02:46,762
They're good friends,
because they were friends

786
01:02:46,763 --> 01:02:48,182
when we had nothing, you know?

787
01:02:50,434 --> 01:02:52,101
Carmine and John Bonham
picked up

788
01:02:52,102 --> 01:02:53,936
such a great repartee.

789
01:02:53,937 --> 01:02:55,229
They used to watch each other

790
01:02:55,230 --> 01:02:57,482
and mimic each other
and play little parts.

791
01:02:57,483 --> 01:03:00,152
It was a great exchange of
energies between everybody.

792
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:04,948
Denver was
the first show.

793
01:03:05,532 --> 01:03:07,366
Like playing
in an aircraft hangar.

794
01:03:07,367 --> 01:03:09,202
There wasn't that many
people there either.

795
01:03:09,203 --> 01:03:10,828
I thought, "Oh, boy."

796
01:03:10,829 --> 01:03:14,165
But I said, "Look,
let's just group together

797
01:03:14,166 --> 01:03:16,417
"as though we're playing
in a club,

798
01:03:16,418 --> 01:03:19,670
"and just play to each other.

799
01:03:19,671 --> 01:03:21,047
"Don't worry about
whether the place

800
01:03:21,048 --> 01:03:22,798
"is half full or totally full.

801
01:03:22,799 --> 01:03:25,635
"Let's just play for ourselves
to get a feel."

802
01:03:38,649 --> 01:03:40,900
From the handful of dates
with the Fudge,

803
01:03:40,901 --> 01:03:44,862
then we go to
the Whisky a Go Go in LA

804
01:03:44,863 --> 01:03:46,740
and then we're going
to San Francisco.

805
01:04:09,555 --> 01:04:11,264
The album is already
being played

806
01:04:11,265 --> 01:04:12,890
on the underground radio

807
01:04:12,891 --> 01:04:15,935
and people are really curious

808
01:04:15,936 --> 01:04:18,646
to see this band
that they're hearing.

809
01:04:18,647 --> 01:04:22,733
So we were gonna go in there,
like, with a hatchet

810
01:04:22,734 --> 01:04:25,987
and just play like
we'd never played before.

811
01:04:25,988 --> 01:04:28,240
Just throw everything
that we'd got into it.

812
01:04:29,908 --> 01:04:31,659
We're backstage
at the Fillmore,

813
01:04:31,660 --> 01:04:33,912
and, um, Peter Grant says,

814
01:04:34,663 --> 01:04:36,038
"Well, whatever happens,

815
01:04:36,039 --> 01:04:38,708
"if you don't crack it here,
it's over."

816
01:07:14,948 --> 01:07:18,325
We knew after that one
that we were on the right track.

817
01:07:30,505 --> 01:07:33,090
Everything is traveling
like wildfire.

818
01:07:33,091 --> 01:07:35,426
The whole thing
is just building.

819
01:07:35,427 --> 01:07:37,386
People were bashing down
the doors to get in

820
01:07:37,387 --> 01:07:40,222
by the time we played
Boston Tea Party,

821
01:07:40,223 --> 01:07:42,141
'cause we were working
across the States

822
01:07:42,142 --> 01:07:44,936
from the West Coast to the East.

823
01:07:45,854 --> 01:07:47,938
On FM radio
they would play

824
01:07:47,939 --> 01:07:51,233
one side of your record
and back announce that side,

825
01:07:51,234 --> 01:07:54,237
have one word from a sponsor,
and then play the other side.

826
01:07:54,488 --> 01:07:55,988
People would just listen to it

827
01:07:55,989 --> 01:07:58,366
and they'd go, "And they're
playing in your town tonight."

828
01:07:58,700 --> 01:08:01,660
And so
they'd all come on down.

829
01:08:01,661 --> 01:08:03,454
Rock 'n' roll with Led Zeppelin.

830
01:08:03,455 --> 01:08:06,500
Robert Plant is here and I know
you feel real good now.

831
01:08:07,793 --> 01:08:10,211
I'm gonna put another caller
on the phone here.

832
01:08:10,212 --> 01:08:12,463
- You're on the air, dear.
- Is this Robert Plant?

833
01:08:12,464 --> 01:08:14,673
- Occasionally, yeah.
- Oh, God.

834
01:08:14,674 --> 01:08:16,926
I want you to know that
I'm having heart failure.

835
01:08:16,927 --> 01:08:18,135
Oh, good God.

836
01:08:18,136 --> 01:08:20,055
Don't tell me.
You need a doctor.

837
01:08:20,847 --> 01:08:23,182
I just want you to know
that you are so sexy.

838
01:08:23,183 --> 01:08:24,600
- It's unbelievable.
- Okay, dear.

839
01:08:24,601 --> 01:08:26,018
- Thank you very much.
- Bless you.

840
01:08:26,019 --> 01:08:27,394
- Next? Next?
- Hello?

841
01:08:27,395 --> 01:08:29,522
I was gonna go see you
last night,

842
01:08:29,523 --> 01:08:30,940
but I couldn't get tickets.

843
01:08:30,941 --> 01:08:32,775
It was really good
last night.

844
01:08:32,776 --> 01:08:34,485
What's your name?
Oh, forget it.

845
01:08:35,570 --> 01:08:36,654
- Hello?
- Hi.

846
01:08:36,655 --> 01:08:39,740
Hi. Guess what.
I think you're a fox.

847
01:08:39,741 --> 01:08:40,908
What's that mean?

848
01:08:40,909 --> 01:08:42,827
It means you're
a very good-looking man.

849
01:08:42,828 --> 01:08:44,036
Far out.

850
01:08:44,037 --> 01:08:45,830
I really dug
the concert.

851
01:08:45,831 --> 01:08:47,206
I really liked it.

852
01:08:47,207 --> 01:08:48,874
I just really think you're a fox

853
01:08:48,875 --> 01:08:50,584
and keep on doing
what you're doing.

854
01:08:50,585 --> 01:08:52,711
That's very nice of you.
We will.

855
01:09:25,579 --> 01:09:27,496
The anticipation
was overwhelming.

856
01:09:27,497 --> 01:09:29,708
I mean, really overwhelming.

857
01:09:58,862 --> 01:10:02,072
To come back to England
with what we'd experienced,

858
01:10:02,073 --> 01:10:03,867
I just had to keep quiet.

859
01:10:04,701 --> 01:10:07,995
I mean, over here,
the record wasn't out yet.

860
01:10:07,996 --> 01:10:10,999
So I just didn't have
anything to say.

861
01:10:12,584 --> 01:10:14,210
People would have laughed at me.

862
01:10:15,754 --> 01:10:18,173
So Bonzo and I
used to get together and go...

863
01:10:19,382 --> 01:10:21,801
"Well, what was that?"
"Well, I don't know."

864
01:10:22,510 --> 01:10:24,137
"What happened?" "I don't know."

865
01:10:25,347 --> 01:10:29,058
Crikey. It was just
amazing. Just ridiculous.

866
01:10:29,059 --> 01:10:30,809
I mean, we came back
from America

867
01:10:30,810 --> 01:10:32,227
and we'd gone through
a big change.

868
01:10:32,228 --> 01:10:34,021
You know, we were feeling
really good, you know.

869
01:10:34,022 --> 01:10:35,648
But it does affect you,
you know.

870
01:10:35,649 --> 01:10:37,776
I mean, think about it.
We're 20 years old,

871
01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:40,737
and suddenly there were drugs

872
01:10:41,279 --> 01:10:42,863
and there was a lot of girls,

873
01:10:42,864 --> 01:10:45,866
and so many characters that
suddenly arrive on the scene.

874
01:10:45,867 --> 01:10:50,038
This huge sort of sub-subculture
that spins around fame.

875
01:10:50,664 --> 01:10:52,748
Especially fame
in its very early stages.

876
01:10:52,749 --> 01:10:55,418
'Cause that's the place
where you can smell

877
01:10:56,211 --> 01:10:57,671
something new coming.

878
01:10:57,921 --> 01:11:01,465
It felt good. As it might.

879
01:11:01,466 --> 01:11:03,717
Especially as we were doing it
without the press,

880
01:11:03,718 --> 01:11:05,052
who didn't seem to like us,

881
01:11:05,053 --> 01:11:06,888
the few reviews
we did seem to get,

882
01:11:07,430 --> 01:11:09,766
the obvious one being
the Rolling Stone review.

883
01:11:11,476 --> 01:11:13,394
I remember reading that review,

884
01:11:13,395 --> 01:11:15,772
thinking, "Who are they
talking about?

885
01:11:16,898 --> 01:11:18,149
"Do they mean us?"

886
01:11:19,317 --> 01:11:21,193
A lot of those writers
at that time,

887
01:11:21,194 --> 01:11:23,153
I don't know whether they were
studying the music

888
01:11:23,154 --> 01:11:25,322
to criticize it or whether
they were more concerned

889
01:11:25,323 --> 01:11:28,326
about the sort of
social activities.

890
01:11:28,868 --> 01:11:32,621
But do you really care
about other people's responses

891
01:11:32,622 --> 01:11:34,124
if you're playing like that?

892
01:11:34,958 --> 01:11:38,545
Well, the answer is,
unfortunately, yeah.

893
01:11:39,671 --> 01:11:41,923
That's where you can
come unstuck.

894
01:11:42,924 --> 01:11:47,386
Fortunately, as four guys,
we did not care that much.

895
01:11:47,387 --> 01:11:50,223
We were more caring about
how we turned ourselves on.

896
01:11:50,890 --> 01:11:53,809
The first album,
it just got ripped to pieces.

897
01:11:53,810 --> 01:11:55,310
Like, loads would say, "No.

898
01:11:55,311 --> 01:11:57,062
"I don't like Zeppelin's
sort of music,"

899
01:11:57,063 --> 01:11:58,231
for some reason, you know?

900
01:11:58,565 --> 01:12:00,483
So we all thought, you know,
it was a bit of a joke.

901
01:12:01,818 --> 01:12:04,611
We worked really, really hard,

902
01:12:04,612 --> 01:12:07,282
and people got it,
and you could see they got it.

903
01:12:07,866 --> 01:12:09,783
Then they told their friends
that they got it.

904
01:12:09,784 --> 01:12:10,994
"Get some too."

905
01:12:11,453 --> 01:12:14,872
The venues are jam-packed,
so what people are hearing,

906
01:12:14,873 --> 01:12:17,124
as opposed
to what they're reading,

907
01:12:17,125 --> 01:12:18,835
is what really makes the band.

908
01:12:34,017 --> 01:12:36,310
It was exciting
to be doing these concerts

909
01:12:36,311 --> 01:12:38,604
and being able to have
this communion

910
01:12:38,605 --> 01:12:39,813
with the four of us

911
01:12:39,814 --> 01:12:42,649
and be able to just change,
you know,

912
01:12:42,650 --> 01:12:44,943
things with a sense of humor
or an intensity

913
01:12:44,944 --> 01:12:47,655
or a level of aggression
or whatever.

914
01:12:47,864 --> 01:12:50,491
And this is how connected
we are,

915
01:12:50,492 --> 01:12:52,826
that we can be moving
in any direction

916
01:12:52,827 --> 01:12:54,203
and everyone's following.

917
01:12:54,204 --> 01:12:56,288
If the guitar's leading,
they're all following.

918
01:12:56,289 --> 01:12:58,373
I can just hold back
and change this.

919
01:12:58,374 --> 01:13:02,295
I mean, the improvisation is
just at an extraordinary level.

920
01:13:02,921 --> 01:13:05,089
With Dazed and Confused,

921
01:13:05,090 --> 01:13:08,343
the intensity is building.
It's positively evil.

922
01:13:38,206 --> 01:13:39,207
Uh!

923
01:18:13,856 --> 01:18:14,857
Hey!

924
01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:02,172
I knew what we had

925
01:20:02,173 --> 01:20:05,467
and I just really wanted
to knock everybody dead with it.

926
01:20:05,468 --> 01:20:08,678
I had a whole vision
for the next album.

927
01:20:08,679 --> 01:20:11,765
It was going to be
very cinematic

928
01:20:11,766 --> 01:20:16,019
in its approach to how the music
is done in the first place,

929
01:20:16,020 --> 01:20:19,148
let alone what the overdubs
and the layers are gonna do.

930
01:20:19,774 --> 01:20:21,858
So I called for a rehearsal
at the house,

931
01:20:21,859 --> 01:20:24,653
and we rehearsed two new songs,

932
01:20:24,654 --> 01:20:26,112
Whole Lotta Love

933
01:20:26,113 --> 01:20:28,115
and What Is and
What Should Never Be.

934
01:20:28,658 --> 01:20:30,910
Jimmy would sit down
with an acoustic guitar

935
01:20:31,327 --> 01:20:33,037
and we'd work the songs out.

936
01:20:33,663 --> 01:20:36,164
He just comes in
and plays what he's written.

937
01:20:36,165 --> 01:20:38,334
And then we, all together,
suss it all out.

938
01:20:38,876 --> 01:20:42,420
We went into Olympic Studios
in April,

939
01:20:42,421 --> 01:20:45,883
and we're just really excited
to be back in the studio again.

940
01:20:46,300 --> 01:20:49,887
My songwriting capacity
is starting to kick in

941
01:20:51,013 --> 01:20:53,516
because of the color of
the playing that surrounded me.

942
01:20:54,225 --> 01:20:55,642
So, with Whole Lotta Love,

943
01:20:55,643 --> 01:20:57,852
Jimmy had done some work
on the chorus.

944
01:20:57,853 --> 01:21:01,691
He showed me his riff,
which was incredible, really.

945
01:21:14,412 --> 01:21:17,455
And for the verse, I just
sang a Willie Dixon lyric.

946
01:21:27,925 --> 01:21:29,552
And, you know,
it was like...

947
01:21:30,595 --> 01:21:33,347
I was finding the best bits
of Black music

948
01:21:33,848 --> 01:21:35,807
and putting it
through the wringer,

949
01:21:35,808 --> 01:21:37,018
one way or another.

950
01:21:38,311 --> 01:21:41,605
I think there's no point
in having Whole Lotta Love

951
01:21:41,606 --> 01:21:42,981
and then having another riff

952
01:21:42,982 --> 01:21:45,318
which was pretty much
the same sort of sound.

953
01:21:48,321 --> 01:21:51,948
So, the thing with What Is
and What Should Never Be

954
01:21:51,949 --> 01:21:55,285
is that it's got these
laid-back, gentler verses

955
01:21:55,286 --> 01:21:57,120
and then it comes in with...

956
01:21:57,121 --> 01:21:58,747
I won't call them
a power chorus,

957
01:21:58,748 --> 01:22:01,207
but it's more intensity to it,

958
01:22:01,208 --> 01:22:03,251
so that you could
then illustrate

959
01:22:03,252 --> 01:22:06,338
John Bonham's power
and the group's power as well,

960
01:22:06,339 --> 01:22:07,673
the whole thing.

961
01:22:26,108 --> 01:22:27,400
We had this tour coming up

962
01:22:27,401 --> 01:22:29,903
and I think it's gonna be
really a hoot

963
01:22:29,904 --> 01:22:33,991
to be able to record
in various locations in America.

964
01:22:34,867 --> 01:22:40,163
The idea was to be inspired by,
you know, the love of the people

965
01:22:40,164 --> 01:22:42,500
and to get the reaction
of the audience.

966
01:23:21,414 --> 01:23:22,706
It was just a joy

967
01:23:22,707 --> 01:23:25,917
to be able to go into studios
in the States.

968
01:23:25,918 --> 01:23:28,461
You've got the energy
of being on the road

969
01:23:28,462 --> 01:23:30,463
and you're actually
documenting it

970
01:23:30,464 --> 01:23:32,257
within whatever
you're recording.

971
01:23:49,442 --> 01:23:51,818
John Bonham's kit
was gonna be spread

972
01:23:51,819 --> 01:23:54,195
right across the stereo picture.

973
01:23:54,196 --> 01:23:56,114
So then you could have
the placement

974
01:23:56,115 --> 01:23:58,950
of the instruments within
and the layering within.

975
01:24:05,541 --> 01:24:06,791
He knew how to tune.

976
01:24:06,792 --> 01:24:08,793
He had the science
of tuning the drum.

977
01:24:08,794 --> 01:24:10,545
So that when he hit it,

978
01:24:10,546 --> 01:24:13,381
it just resonated
out of the top.

979
01:24:13,382 --> 01:24:14,925
It just projected.

980
01:24:17,052 --> 01:24:19,012
And he played with his wrists.

981
01:24:19,013 --> 01:24:20,805
It's not all this
forearm smashing.

982
01:24:20,806 --> 01:24:23,600
But he could also do an accent
on the bass drum

983
01:24:23,601 --> 01:24:26,103
and you'd feel it, you know,
more or less in your gut.

984
01:24:27,730 --> 01:24:29,440
He was so inventive.

985
01:24:30,107 --> 01:24:32,484
And inspiring to play with,
you know.

986
01:24:32,485 --> 01:24:35,153
You'd hear the stuff and,
well, I don't wanna just go

987
01:24:35,154 --> 01:24:37,489
over that.

988
01:24:37,490 --> 01:24:40,200
I want to do something that'll
fit in really well with it.

989
01:24:40,201 --> 01:24:43,370
That's what I used to like
to do best, is to fit in.

990
01:24:43,871 --> 01:24:46,372
So everybody could be heard.

991
01:24:46,373 --> 01:24:48,166
That was the important thing
for me,

992
01:24:48,167 --> 01:24:49,667
that everybody could be heard,

993
01:24:49,668 --> 01:24:52,378
what they were doing,
on a Zeppelin record.

994
01:25:47,268 --> 01:25:49,395
We just recorded
what we liked.

995
01:25:49,895 --> 01:25:52,897
I mean, Zeppelin always had
completely different influences.

996
01:25:52,898 --> 01:25:55,233
We all listened
to different things.

997
01:25:55,234 --> 01:25:56,318
And I always said

998
01:25:56,485 --> 01:25:58,737
that Led Zeppelin
was the area in the middle.

999
01:25:59,238 --> 01:26:00,321
In between us all.

1000
01:26:15,754 --> 01:26:19,007
It was very encouraging
to peel back

1001
01:26:19,008 --> 01:26:21,175
the vulnerabilities

1002
01:26:21,176 --> 01:26:24,679
of starting to create a writing
partnership with Jimmy,

1003
01:26:24,680 --> 01:26:27,223
where we were breaking down
the sensitivities

1004
01:26:27,224 --> 01:26:28,559
and the possible embarrassments.

1005
01:26:29,143 --> 01:26:30,977
Writing is a very
intimate thing.

1006
01:26:30,978 --> 01:26:32,479
You expose yourself.

1007
01:26:33,147 --> 01:26:36,983
I'd written some lyrics
on the first album,

1008
01:26:36,984 --> 01:26:38,568
and also on the second album,

1009
01:26:38,569 --> 01:26:41,321
but I wasn't as confident
about my lyrics

1010
01:26:41,322 --> 01:26:43,198
as I was about
my guitar playing.

1011
01:26:43,824 --> 01:26:45,992
I had to start
thinking about

1012
01:26:45,993 --> 01:26:48,328
what do I do as a singer

1013
01:26:48,329 --> 01:26:51,080
and as a guy
who's gonna bring melody

1014
01:26:51,081 --> 01:26:52,875
or even a story to something?

1015
01:26:53,292 --> 01:26:56,961
The idea was to inspire him
through the music

1016
01:26:56,962 --> 01:26:58,421
to be inspired lyrically.

1017
01:26:58,422 --> 01:27:01,467
And then he came with
these lyrics for Ramble On.

1018
01:27:02,092 --> 01:27:03,802
Yeah, this is...

1019
01:27:04,720 --> 01:27:07,014
a rough shot of Ramble On.

1020
01:27:08,057 --> 01:27:11,185
"Leaves are falling all around.
Time I was on my way."

1021
01:27:12,353 --> 01:27:15,897
That is the story of my life.

1022
01:28:25,634 --> 01:28:29,554
I was really keen to have
a lot of texture and layering,

1023
01:28:29,555 --> 01:28:33,182
certainly on behalf
of the guitar, with Ramble On.

1024
01:28:33,183 --> 01:28:36,186
It has these various
guitar parts that go in it.

1025
01:28:36,478 --> 01:28:39,605
You know, there's,
like, guitar rolling

1026
01:28:39,606 --> 01:28:42,066
that is moving over
some of the verses.

1027
01:28:42,067 --> 01:28:44,193
Then there's the whole texture
of the solo.

1028
01:29:01,503 --> 01:29:05,131
It was just a joy to be able
to do these tracks

1029
01:29:05,132 --> 01:29:08,342
and everyone do their part
and then come back

1030
01:29:08,343 --> 01:29:11,388
and go, "Wow.
What's he done with this?"

1031
01:29:12,139 --> 01:29:14,140
There were so many
diverse places

1032
01:29:14,141 --> 01:29:15,767
that it was coming from.

1033
01:29:15,768 --> 01:29:19,562
The very fact that we were
able to be intimate in writing,

1034
01:29:19,563 --> 01:29:21,898
that's the big breakthrough,

1035
01:29:21,899 --> 01:29:23,650
because it's a total exposure.

1036
01:29:25,027 --> 01:29:28,988
As a kid, my parents took me
to every mystical mountaintop

1037
01:29:28,989 --> 01:29:32,242
and every beautiful ruin and...

1038
01:29:33,160 --> 01:29:36,954
all that sort of great
resonance of another people.

1039
01:29:36,955 --> 01:29:38,040
Well,

1040
01:29:38,832 --> 01:29:40,583
that's what that song's
all about, really.

1041
01:29:40,584 --> 01:29:42,960
Me, you, and the other people.

1042
01:30:23,293 --> 01:30:25,336
Gig after gig,
night after night,

1043
01:30:25,337 --> 01:30:28,339
maybe we had 20 songs to choose
from at that point in time.

1044
01:30:28,340 --> 01:30:30,341
Soon we'd have 40.

1045
01:30:30,342 --> 01:30:34,011
We'd opened a door to America
and there was a glint of light,

1046
01:30:34,012 --> 01:30:37,306
and, obviously, you're gonna
sort of kick the door open

1047
01:30:37,307 --> 01:30:40,351
and go in and really...

1048
01:30:40,352 --> 01:30:42,353
It's a massive continent.

1049
01:30:42,354 --> 01:30:44,397
And we really wanted
to get the word across

1050
01:30:44,398 --> 01:30:45,941
through live performances.

1051
01:30:49,653 --> 01:30:52,573
We toured horrendously at first.

1052
01:30:52,865 --> 01:30:55,159
We toured for months on end,
pretty much.

1053
01:30:56,076 --> 01:30:58,744
Three of these guys
had families already

1054
01:30:58,745 --> 01:31:00,538
at that point in time,

1055
01:31:00,539 --> 01:31:03,584
and this is our fifth tour
in seven months,

1056
01:31:04,251 --> 01:31:08,005
so they were away from
their children for a long time.

1057
01:31:09,173 --> 01:31:11,091
It is difficult
when you've got a family.

1058
01:31:11,675 --> 01:31:14,511
I flew with my wife Mo
to all the good spots.

1059
01:31:15,220 --> 01:31:16,429
She'd come to New York.

1060
01:31:16,430 --> 01:31:18,639
She'd just take
the kids shopping.

1061
01:31:18,640 --> 01:31:20,558
Go to shows. It was great.

1062
01:31:20,559 --> 01:31:22,268
But then they'd go home
and leave us

1063
01:31:22,269 --> 01:31:24,730
to get on with
touring the rest of the country.

1064
01:31:27,232 --> 01:31:30,735
There weren't tour buses
or any niceties in those days.

1065
01:31:30,736 --> 01:31:33,237
It was just like getting
whatever transport you can,

1066
01:31:33,238 --> 01:31:36,158
get to the gig, play it,
then try and have Richard Cole

1067
01:31:36,533 --> 01:31:39,286
find the next venue,
or even the city sometimes.

1068
01:31:40,037 --> 01:31:42,079
You could always tell,
when he was like...

1069
01:31:42,080 --> 01:31:44,582
You'd get at a junction
and see him going like this...

1070
01:31:44,583 --> 01:31:47,169
You'd go, "No.
We're lost again."

1071
01:31:47,878 --> 01:31:50,421
It's so much easier
to tour around England.

1072
01:31:50,422 --> 01:31:53,299
If you're in America, you're
all day in a hotel somewhere,

1073
01:31:53,300 --> 01:31:55,801
having arguments with bloody,
you know,

1074
01:31:55,802 --> 01:31:57,137
turdheads and everything.

1075
01:31:57,721 --> 01:31:59,096
You know, it does affect you,

1076
01:31:59,097 --> 01:32:00,933
like, what's happened
previously in the day.

1077
01:32:01,808 --> 01:32:03,517
It was
all commercial airlines

1078
01:32:03,518 --> 01:32:05,436
so you had to get up
early in the morning and go

1079
01:32:05,437 --> 01:32:08,857
and sit in some airport waiting
for a plane to somewhere.

1080
01:32:10,067 --> 01:32:12,361
But that's how everybody
got to hear us in America.

1081
01:32:41,598 --> 01:32:43,140
We came back
from America

1082
01:32:43,141 --> 01:32:44,684
and everybody wanted
to book the group.

1083
01:32:44,685 --> 01:32:46,185
And it was like
a change of tune, you know.

1084
01:32:46,186 --> 01:32:47,603
There was no publicity

1085
01:32:47,604 --> 01:32:49,981
and, strangely,
you'd get to a British show...

1086
01:32:49,982 --> 01:32:52,275
"How did these people
know we were coming?"

1087
01:32:52,276 --> 01:32:54,527
We figured out
it was just word of mouth.

1088
01:34:00,802 --> 01:34:03,137
I just liked the idea
of the stimulus

1089
01:34:03,138 --> 01:34:05,139
of travel and attention.

1090
01:34:05,140 --> 01:34:07,059
What do you know
if you don't seek?

1091
01:34:07,184 --> 01:34:08,727
You've got to go out
and have a look for it.

1092
01:34:33,710 --> 01:34:35,628
We were playing
festivals in America

1093
01:34:35,629 --> 01:34:37,588
two years after
the Summer of Love.

1094
01:34:37,589 --> 01:34:40,049
I know that really has
no real significance,

1095
01:34:40,050 --> 01:34:42,051
but to me
it had every significance,

1096
01:34:42,052 --> 01:34:45,846
'cause I was in a place
that I really wanted to be,

1097
01:34:45,847 --> 01:34:47,015
emotionally.

1098
01:35:22,717 --> 01:35:24,885
I can remember John
doing a sound check

1099
01:35:24,886 --> 01:35:26,679
at Newport Jazz Festival

1100
01:35:26,680 --> 01:35:29,473
and I could just see
all of James Brown's drummers

1101
01:35:29,474 --> 01:35:31,642
coming out of different doors

1102
01:35:31,643 --> 01:35:35,355
going, "What the...
What is going on here?"

1103
01:35:36,356 --> 01:35:38,816
And he's going...

1104
01:35:38,817 --> 01:35:41,735
He's going, "Yeah. I know.
I know who's watching me."

1105
01:35:41,736 --> 01:35:44,156
But it was great.
You know.

1106
01:35:44,739 --> 01:35:48,409
It's what made
Zeppelin unique in that way.

1107
01:35:48,410 --> 01:35:50,411
It's just the way
he approached rhythm

1108
01:35:50,412 --> 01:35:51,662
and what he did.

1109
01:36:51,389 --> 01:36:53,015
We recorded all the songs

1110
01:36:53,016 --> 01:36:55,184
for Led Zeppelin II
on that tour.

1111
01:36:55,185 --> 01:36:57,229
It was like a kind of hurricane.

1112
01:36:57,729 --> 01:37:01,024
A whirlwind of energy
and release.

1113
01:37:02,234 --> 01:37:04,735
We hadn't really had a chance,
obviously,

1114
01:37:04,736 --> 01:37:07,446
with the amount of time that
we were spending in America,

1115
01:37:07,447 --> 01:37:10,032
to concentrate that much
at home.

1116
01:37:10,033 --> 01:37:12,284
So we came back
and actually played

1117
01:37:12,285 --> 01:37:13,536
our first British festival.

1118
01:37:13,537 --> 01:37:15,412
Would you welcome,
please, Led Zeppelin?

1119
01:37:15,413 --> 01:37:17,248
And, of course,
you still wonder,

1120
01:37:17,249 --> 01:37:20,084
is this gonna
have any resonance?

1121
01:37:20,085 --> 01:37:21,753
Is this gonna bring it on home?

1122
01:37:35,392 --> 01:37:36,560
Wow.

1123
01:38:07,007 --> 01:38:09,592
I've seen a photograph
of the first Bath Festival

1124
01:38:09,593 --> 01:38:13,346
but to see moving images of it,
well, that's absolutely amazing.

1125
01:38:14,431 --> 01:38:16,056
That was probably
the first festival

1126
01:38:16,057 --> 01:38:17,434
that we'd done in Britain.

1127
01:38:17,976 --> 01:38:19,893
And it didn't rain,
so it was really good,

1128
01:38:19,894 --> 01:38:21,021
and it was fun.

1129
01:38:23,857 --> 01:38:25,232
But how long
do you want off

1130
01:38:25,233 --> 01:38:26,567
in between a tour and a tour

1131
01:38:26,568 --> 01:38:27,943
and a tour? Not long, really.

1132
01:38:27,944 --> 01:38:30,280
I mean, we had no idea
of fatigue.

1133
01:38:31,239 --> 01:38:33,490
There's just energy and power.

1134
01:38:54,054 --> 01:38:56,055
At 32 minutes past the hour,

1135
01:38:56,056 --> 01:38:57,807
liftoff on Apollo 11.

1136
01:39:46,731 --> 01:39:49,025
That's one small step for man,

1137
01:39:51,778 --> 01:39:54,489
one giant leap for mankind.

1138
01:40:09,587 --> 01:40:11,171
I can just remember
we were in a tent

1139
01:40:11,172 --> 01:40:12,924
and somebody landed on the moon.

1140
01:40:17,429 --> 01:40:20,306
I mean, can you imagine
just being in America,

1141
01:40:21,141 --> 01:40:23,767
as a kid, more or less,
and just looking up...

1142
01:40:23,768 --> 01:40:26,145
You got this thing going on
with the music

1143
01:40:26,146 --> 01:40:27,897
and you look up
and there's a man on the moon.

1144
01:41:09,522 --> 01:41:12,024
You know,
it's a big old world out there,

1145
01:41:12,025 --> 01:41:15,694
and I'm sure that 99% of people
are far more interested

1146
01:41:15,695 --> 01:41:19,741
in the fact that these guys
got back safely from the moon.

1147
01:41:20,450 --> 01:41:24,204
But the day they got back,
that was a big day for us too.

1148
01:41:32,879 --> 01:41:35,380
That is the biggest deal

1149
01:41:35,381 --> 01:41:37,966
if you're a kid
and you want to be a singer.

1150
01:41:37,967 --> 01:41:42,222
You get a gold record.
I mean, what happens next?

1151
01:41:43,056 --> 01:41:44,474
Doesn't matter, does it?

1152
01:41:49,521 --> 01:41:51,980
I just really wanted
to make sure that

1153
01:41:51,981 --> 01:41:55,359
this album was just really gonna
get everybody excited.

1154
01:41:55,360 --> 01:41:58,571
I wanted it to be something
that they hadn't heard before.

1155
01:41:59,197 --> 01:42:03,033
The acoustics and the electrics
and the more radical

1156
01:42:03,034 --> 01:42:04,952
and even avant-garde.

1157
01:42:04,953 --> 01:42:07,204
So, when it came
to doing the mix

1158
01:42:07,205 --> 01:42:08,997
for Led Zeppelin II,

1159
01:42:08,998 --> 01:42:12,418
I'd mixed it with Eddie Kramer
at A&R Studios in New York.

1160
01:42:13,461 --> 01:42:15,337
I think he did an amazing job.

1161
01:42:15,338 --> 01:42:18,215
And, as was the case
with these mixing things,

1162
01:42:18,216 --> 01:42:20,718
there was often more than
two hands on the desk.

1163
01:42:23,888 --> 01:42:26,139
I really wanted to do something
with Whole Lotta Love

1164
01:42:26,140 --> 01:42:27,642
to stop it being a single.

1165
01:42:28,434 --> 01:42:33,230
So it was gonna have
a radical avant-garde section

1166
01:42:33,231 --> 01:42:36,608
in the middle that began with
a sonic wave.

1167
01:42:42,657 --> 01:42:44,575
Then when I put
the overdubs on it

1168
01:42:44,576 --> 01:42:46,368
for what was gonna go
in the middle,

1169
01:42:46,369 --> 01:42:49,204
I de-tuned the guitar
all the way down

1170
01:42:49,205 --> 01:42:53,417
and I was just pulling
the strings across and across.

1171
01:43:01,843 --> 01:43:03,302
And then there
was lots of panning.

1172
01:43:03,303 --> 01:43:05,512
That means moving things
from left to right.

1173
01:43:27,327 --> 01:43:29,369
And so that was it.

1174
01:43:29,370 --> 01:43:31,789
Led Zeppelin II was completed

1175
01:43:32,582 --> 01:43:34,334
and ready to be delivered.

1176
01:49:09,794 --> 01:49:12,713
January the 9th, in 1970,

1177
01:49:13,297 --> 01:49:16,299
we played the Royal Albert Hall
in London,

1178
01:49:16,300 --> 01:49:19,469
and if we're thinking back
a year,

1179
01:49:19,470 --> 01:49:22,681
January the 9th, 1969,

1180
01:49:22,682 --> 01:49:24,642
is when we were playing
in San Francisco.

1181
01:49:25,559 --> 01:49:29,230
So this is
a whole year's progress.

1182
01:49:29,605 --> 01:49:31,064
It was far out.

1183
01:49:31,065 --> 01:49:33,108
I mean, I was just having
a great time.

1184
01:49:34,443 --> 01:49:36,319
No chartered accountant here.

1185
01:49:36,320 --> 01:49:38,905
This is like a London concert,
so, of course,

1186
01:49:38,906 --> 01:49:40,741
this is where the families come.

1187
01:49:41,284 --> 01:49:43,536
Yeah, it's like a gathering
of the clans.

1188
01:49:44,412 --> 01:49:46,955
Just to go in there
and tread those boards

1189
01:49:46,956 --> 01:49:49,959
was just something else,
you know? It was fabulous.

1190
01:49:50,584 --> 01:49:51,751
And it was our own show,

1191
01:49:51,752 --> 01:49:53,671
so we just went out there
and did it.

1192
01:49:57,216 --> 01:49:58,592
Led Zep!

1193
01:49:59,343 --> 01:50:02,388
Led Zep! Led Zep!

1194
01:50:03,514 --> 01:50:06,851
Led Zep! Led Zep!

1195
01:50:07,601 --> 01:50:10,271
Led Zep! Led Zep!

1196
01:50:11,605 --> 01:50:13,232
Led Zep!

1197
01:54:53,554 --> 01:54:54,638
Thank you very much.

1198
01:55:07,484 --> 01:55:10,904
Led Zep! Led Zep!

1199
01:55:11,614 --> 01:55:14,867
Led Zep! Led Zep!

1200
01:55:16,076 --> 01:55:19,079
Led Zep! Led Zep!

1201
01:55:19,955 --> 01:55:21,165
Led Zep!

1202
01:55:22,249 --> 01:55:24,083
My dad came to see that show.

1203
01:55:24,084 --> 01:55:26,754
He was really proud,
which was great.

1204
01:55:28,088 --> 01:55:31,049
Said, "He's got great passion
and fire and all that."

1205
01:55:31,050 --> 01:55:32,926
It was really nice.

1206
01:55:34,178 --> 01:55:36,888
John Paul and me,
you know, we get on really good.

1207
01:55:36,889 --> 01:55:38,265
I mean, we all do, you know.

1208
01:55:38,849 --> 01:55:40,642
Each member of the group,
they're quite different,

1209
01:55:40,643 --> 01:55:43,269
personality-wise,
but they're good lads, actually.

1210
01:55:43,270 --> 01:55:45,314
They're, like, a category
on their own, really.

1211
01:55:45,981 --> 01:55:48,483
Um, it was at least
the middle of '69

1212
01:55:48,484 --> 01:55:50,527
before I got to really know
each of them.

1213
01:55:51,195 --> 01:55:52,863
It's a gradual thing, isn't it?

1214
01:55:54,031 --> 01:55:55,698
I could talk
about Robert forever

1215
01:55:55,699 --> 01:55:58,201
because I know him so well,
really, that it's ridiculous.

1216
01:55:58,202 --> 01:56:01,704
You know? And Jimmy's
pretty shy, actually.

1217
01:56:01,705 --> 01:56:04,166
But knowing him like I have,
he's really great, you know.

1218
01:56:05,125 --> 01:56:07,543
I like each of them
for what they're doing.

1219
01:56:07,544 --> 01:56:09,838
And, you know, I always love
playing in the group,

1220
01:56:10,339 --> 01:56:11,965
so I don't need to do
anything else.

1221
01:56:14,593 --> 01:56:16,719
We got there
in the first place,

1222
01:56:16,720 --> 01:56:17,804
on the first day,

1223
01:56:17,805 --> 01:56:19,847
playing Train Kept A-Rollin',

1224
01:56:19,848 --> 01:56:21,891
'cause we were drawn
to that moment

1225
01:56:21,892 --> 01:56:23,018
and it worked.

1226
01:56:23,519 --> 01:56:26,730
But all the preamble to that
was just out there,

1227
01:56:27,189 --> 01:56:28,440
throwing it up in the air.

1228
01:56:29,024 --> 01:56:31,068
So why should it ever stop?

1229
01:56:31,944 --> 01:56:34,987
If you have something
that you know is different

1230
01:56:34,988 --> 01:56:36,280
in yourself,

1231
01:56:36,281 --> 01:56:37,865
then you have
to put work into it.

1232
01:56:37,866 --> 01:56:39,534
You have to work
and work and work.

1233
01:56:39,535 --> 01:56:41,202
But you also have
to believe in it.

1234
01:56:41,203 --> 01:56:43,663
But as long as you can
stay really true,

1235
01:56:43,664 --> 01:56:46,416
your aim is true,
you can realize your dreams.

1236
01:56:46,417 --> 01:56:47,500
I do believe that.

1237
01:56:47,501 --> 01:56:50,254
I believe that that can be done,
'cause this is what happens.

1238
02:01:33,328 --> 02:01:34,495
Thank you.