Big Jim gave me a great interview for my Zep book, with excellent quotes about “Little Jim” Page. For that I’ll always be grateful. You can also hear him on literally thousands of great UK pop hits of the 60s and 70s.
Read Dave Laing’s Guardian obituary
About Barney Hoskyns
Barney Hoskyns co-founded and editorially directs Rock’s Backpages. He is the author of, among other books, Across the Great Divide: The Band & America (1993), Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes & the Sound of Los Angeles (1996), Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters & Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons (2006), the Tom Waits biography Lowside of the Road (2009) and Trampled Under Foot, the oral history of Led Zeppelin (2012). Formerly US correspondent for MOJO, he resides in London's leafy East Sheen, the birthplace of rock and roll.
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