Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page Reveals The Song That Changed His Life

LOS ANGELES, CA – NOVEMBER 12: Musician Jimmy Page speaks onstage at “An Evening With Jimmy Page And Chris Cornell In Conversation” at the Ace Hotel on November 12, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Jimmy Page, from Led Zeppelin, revealed what song changed his life recently.

Page spoke about the first time seeing a guitar, “I don’t know whether [the guitar] was left behind by the people [in the house] before [us], or whether it was a friend of the family’s—nobody seemed to know why it was there.”

Jimmy continued, “I wanted to have my own approach to what I did. I didn’t want to … do a carbon copy of B.B. King, but I really love the blues. The blues had so much effect on me and I just wanted to make my own contribution in my own way.”

Page addressed the song ‘Rock Island Line’, “He really understood all that stuff, Lonnie Donegan. But this is the way that he sort of, should we say, jazzed it up or skiffled it up. By the time you get to the end of this he’s really spitting it out … he keeps singing ‘Rock Island line, Rock Island’ [and] you really get this whole staccato aspect of it. It’s fantastic stuff! So many guitarists from the sixties will all say Lonnie Donegan was [their] influence.”