Jimmy Page's words in an interview in 1977

Jimmy: "Actually, I didn't play anything well. I knew a few tricks, not many. I just kept listening to records, and so learning.

And the obvious influences early on were Scotty Moore, James Burton, Cliff Gallup (he was Gene Vincent's guitarist), later Johnny Wicks, and they seem to have been the longest influence on me before I listened to blues guitarists, Elmore James, BB King and bluesmen like them.

In general, the beginning was like that: a mixture of rock and blues. Then I developed a lot more and started working in the studio.

I was supposed to be different and I was. I could have three sessions a day: film in the morning, then a rock band, and at night I could have folk.

I didn't know what would happen next. Well, there was a good place to work in a discipline.

And it also gave me the opportunity to grow in all these different styles....