Spend your money on a pair of Louboutins - more useful and cheaper!!!

Woz70, You are so right. In the past couple of years, all Jimmy has done is come up with vastly overpriced goods which marginalise the 'ordinary fan'. We are ostensibly being pushed out of the market. It started with the Jimmy Page book, went on to the signed vinyls of old soundtracks at £195, and now this!!!! You may notice that Halfin is involved in much of what Jimmy does now, with particular reference to the book and these photos. My opinion is that this is Jimmy's method of putting money Halfin's way. All I can say is that RH will not be getting a penny of my money. Take a look at the entries on Facebook on the Ross Halfin Photography page, and you will see what I mean about the sycophants trying to arse lick Halfin because of his connection with Jimmy. My point in my post above is that Halfin came out criticising strongly the man who videod Jimmy in the London market - the poor soul was not making a penny out of it. His 'crime' was to put the video on YouTube. Halfin, on the other hand, will be making a very nice cut on the Jimmy book, and these photos, through his connection to JP.

Joe, The show you were watching is different from the one that is shown on a Saturday morning. This Saturday, while one of the professional chefs was doing a demo in the kitchen, they played Whole Lotta Love in the background. Like yourself, it drew my attention. Maybe someone in the BBC's food programme department is a fan?

I saw the BBC Saturday Morning Kitchen programme on 12/05/2012, and they were playing LZ in the background, but I am sure it was WLL.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention 'woz70'. I have copied the details from the JimmyPage.com site below. I am going to express my opinion and couldn't care less if others shout me down over this. How are the rank and file Led Zeppelin fans who paid for their LZ albums over the years, and attended the gigs, supposed to afford this? No, this is targeted towards collectors who will purchase these photographs from an investment perspective. All JimmyPage.com has done so far is give us 'On This Day', which is a collection of photographs and reminiscences which we have seen and heard before, together with overpriced copies of film soundtracks from 30 years ago. Jimmy must be needing cash to come up with this latest venture. Alternatively, he is trying to put money in Ross Halfin's pocket. I now have renewed respect for Robert Plant, who has managed to continue so very successfully with his recording and touring career, without having to stoop to this level. There was a hue and cry over on Halfin's Facebook page regarding the guy who took the video of JP in the London market (with all the sycophants leaving comments saying "I agree with you Ross"; and "you are so right Ross". The video taper probably had more dignity than to ask for big money for this load of crap. 15 May 2012 Jimmy Page Fine Art Photographic Prints available now immyPage.com is pleased to present the official Jimmy Page Fine Art Photographic Print collection, a unique collaboration between Jimmy Page and five legendary photographers who have captured iconic images throughout his career. This museum-quality collection has been produced to the highest standards to be framed and displayed as pieces of art. Under strict supervision, each silver gelatin black and white photograph has been traditionally printed by hand from negative in a laboratory dark room on Ilford premium quality fibre based paper, the colour photograph is printed on Fuji Crystal archival paper. Jimmy Page and each photographer have worked closely together with the dark room technicians and printer to produce this highly-collectible collection. Strictly limited in an edition of 50 prints, each Fine Art Photographic Print is individually numbered and has been hand-signed by both Jimmy Page and the respective photographer. The official Jimmy Page Fine Art Print collection is available now, individually from numbers 11-50 or numbers 1-10 as part of a Deluxe Portfolio Boxset exclusively from JimmyPage.com. The collection is comprised of the following photographs: Jørgen Angel. KB Hallen, Copenhagen, February 1970. Dick Barnatt. Earls Court Arena, London, May 1975. Neal Preston. Chicago Stadium, Chicago, April 1977. Baron Wolman. Oakland Coliseum, California, June 1977. Ross Halfin. The Worx Studio, London, March 2009. Individual prints Numbers 11 through 50 of each photograph are available individually will be sold in order of purchase. Deluxe Portfolio Boxset Only ten Deluxe Portfolio Boxsets have been produced. Containing all five Fine Art Photographic Prints in a hand made midnight blue, linen-upholstered archival presentation box, featuring a gold foil embossed 'JP' logo lid, black, acid free inner-lining and a special Certificate of Authenticity signed by Jimmy Page. Boxset I contains the number 1/50 of each print; Boxset II contains 2/50 of each print and so forth. Each Deluxe Portfolio Boxset is priced at £7,000 and will be sold in order of purchase. Pricing As is customary in the art world, the price of the Fine Art Prints will increase as the editions sell through, starting at £1000 for the lowest available individual edition number. Once an edition is sold out, it will never be made available again. Certificate of Authenticity Every Fine Art Print is delivered with a high-quality Certificate of Authenticity to document the size of the edition, the production technique and the materials used to create your artwork. Important Care Instructions Silver gelatin photographic printing is the traditional way of producing photographs. Each one is a piece of art and should be treated as such. They are extremely delicate and particularly sensitive to handling. We advise that you do not remove the print from its protective archival bag or handle the paper directly but bring it directly to a professional framer. Request acid-free museum board for mounting and matting to best display and preserve the photograph when framed. Further care instructions will be included.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/jimmy-page-book-sells-for-1750-at-auction/

Comments from stall vendor “….he was buying records actually, then strolled around in the market with his friend and ended up behind mine. Books are all classics, real antique books. let's say he just likes popping up unnoticed in public places! “ “…he's actually behind my stall, he's buying books from the stall behind mine”.

I've just checked on YouTube, and the person who posted the video, 'adkdi', says that it was Old Spitalfields Market, London. Here's the link:- http://www.oldspitalfieldsmarket.com/

Thanks Laura Page - hope you get to visit London again - soon!!

saj, any idea which market this was in? I am assuming London.

Guten Tag Black-Dog, Vielen Dank for bringing this to our attention!

Thanks SteveAJones-san, As ever, you add value ("put meat on the bones") of others' postings. It looks to me that Jimmy likes 'magic', as well as 'magick'.

This is the entry for May 1 from Halfin's Diary:- May 1 The heading photo kind of sums up the weather here in the UK last month... I've been trawling through lots of old slides - yes, stuff shot before digital. Found these of Robert Plant - the black spangled shirt is at Madison Square Garden, the one of him in the alley is in Los Angeles, sitting down in daylight is Glastonbury, and the other singer is Chris Robinson jamming on You Shook Me at the Brixton Academy, can't remember when it was. Funny, you look back at old pictures Robert and realise how charismatic he is

I came across yet another magician who seems to have been encountered by Jimmy. Obviously, I don’t know what the circumstances were of them meeting. Chris Dugdale, Magician http://www.thinkofacard.com/kudos.html Client Testimonials "What A Pleasure To Have Met You and Be Amazed By Your Magic" - Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin

Jimmy Page by Ross Halfin March 2009 NPG x135919 © Ross Halfin 100,000 portraits digitised for the nation May 2012The National Portrait Gallery has recently digitised its 100,000th portrait. This significant achievement would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication from all staff involved, past and present, both within the Digitisation team and across the Gallery. The 100,000th portrait to be scanned by the Digitisation team was a signed, limited edition print of Jimmy Page, photographed in 2009 by Ross Halfin and recently donated to the Gallery by Dave Brolan on behalf of the legendary guitarist. The photograph forms part of a limited edition portfolio of five images of the rock star signed by the photographers and the sitter. Photographs of Page whilst performing with Led Zeppelin, known at the time as ‘the biggest band in the world’, by Jorgen Angel in Copenhagen in 1970, Dick Barnatt at Earls Court Arena in 1975, Neal Preston at Chicago Stadium in 1977 and Baron Wolman at Oakland Coliseum, California in 1977 complete the portfolio. coyright Ross Halfin copyright gered mankowitz copyright jorgen angel copyright baron wolman copyright dick barnatt

I love your humour . Recently, Halfin has been plugging his new site which will be revealed soon, and is going to have plenty of photos for mugs to buy

This is taken from the Sydney Morning Herald of 27/04/2012. I have edited the article down just to show you the part where the filmmaker talks about the difficulty in getting the rights to play ‘Stairway To Heaven’ in the film. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/sounds-and-sights-of-love-20120426-1xmxr.html IN 2008, Canadian filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallee found himself obsessing over 19th-century royal etiquette. The director was making The Young Victoria, a period romantic drama with Emily Blunt playing the future Queen Victoria and nearly every scene had to be fastidiously checked for authenticity, whether it was cutlery arrangements or the tightness of corsets. But at the same time, something else kept percolating through his mind, sometimes as a song he knew that now inspired images and sometimes as an image that suggested certain songs. The vague idea had been with Vallee since 2004, when he was making his breakthrough feature C.R.A.Z.Y., and by the time he finished The Young Victoria he was ready to pursue it. From his earliest intimations of the movie, he knew they would live in the Montmartre district of Paris, because it's the highest point. Every evening he saw her climbing the steps towards home, and he knew the song he wanted. ''Getting Stairway to Heaven is so complicated,'' Vallee says with a sigh. He kept the images but ultimately had to forgo the song he'd edited them to. ''It's the publishers, it's Jimmy Page, it's Robert Plant. They don't get along, they don't get along with the publishers. The publisher says yes, Jimmy says no. Jimmy says yes, Robert says no. It's a mess. That's one relationship where there's no love to be found.''

This is from Ross Halfin's Facebook page. It was apparently shot at the Paramount Theatre Seattle WA... early '90's.

Thanks saj, You have a brilliant eye for detail, as always

Hi April Lynn I had responded to a query regarding the above photo on a thread entitled "who's that bloke with Percy". Here is a copy of my reply to SteveAJones on that thread regarding the above:- "Her name is Ashley Hamm. She is a freelance photographer who now lives in Nashville. The photograph was taken in Knoxville. Her professional Facebook page gives a contact email address as ahammphotography@yahoo.com, so if you want to know when it was taken, and perhaps get the story as to how she met Jimmy etc, you could email her"...

Hi SAJ, I have a copy of The Times article which I have copied below. I shall try to find a copy of the other one. If I find it, I'll post it here. The Times (London) February 5 1988, Friday Arts (Rock): Robert Plant at the Marquee BYLINE: DAVID SINCLAIR SECTION: Issue 62995. LENGTH: 270 words The re-writing of rock history to facilitate the vogueish interest in the early Seventies has inevitably led to a favourable re-assessment of Led Zeppelin, a group whose appeal was widely assumed to have been consigned to the dustbin in the wake of punk. Now that the hip hop movement has adopted Zeppelin's catalogue as a biblical source, while AC/DC is one of the hippest bands in the world and even flares are on the way back, the yowling.Robert Plant finds himself closer to centre stage than he has been for a decade. Seeing performers of Plant's stature at a small venue is always a thrill, although it must be something of a jolt for the musicians. Chris Blackwell's drum cage took up almost a third of the stage space, and there were moments when it looked as if Plant was about to get clouted by a guitar headstock or two. But the essence of a spry, varied and surprisingly fresh-sounding collection of songs was distilled that much more strongly in such confined surroundings by his young-looking band. The guitarist, Doug Boyle, was of an age to be Plant's son, and if such a thing as a generation gap exists, it no longer finds expression in rock music. There are now groups who sound more like Led Zeppelin than Plant himself, but it was noticeable that the best reactions came when the band played 'In the Evening' from In Through The Out Door, and 'Trampled Underfoot' from Physical Graffiti, while the singer's own favourites - a rather lumpen version of John Lee Hooker's 'Dimples' and the Doors' 'Break On Through (To The Other Side)' - met with a more restrained response.

I know this is not what you are looking for, but I found it in my archive for The Times UK 1988, so I thought I'd post it here:-The Times (London) April 15 1988, Friday Arts: No headbanging, please - Robert Plant, former singer with Led Zeppelin, now building a less frenetic solo career BYLINE: DAVID SINCLAIR SECTION: Issue 63056. LENGTH: 707 words If Robert Plant was ever the hell-raiser that most accounts of Led Zeppelin's heyday suggest, the scenes backstage on the current British dates indicate that such activities are now either behind him or else much more discreetly managed. His closest companion in the touring party that reached Sheffield City Hall last week was his nine-year-old son, Logan, a thin, dark-haired boy loyally respectful of his Dad's music but more of a fan of Michael Jackson. 'If you're heading for that chocolate again, you'll be thrust into the flames of Hades,' Plant admonished the little fellow, who was making for a tray of goodies laid out in the singer's dressing room area. 'Take him and give him some food in the catering room,' Plant instructed an aide. Plant senior was born in West Bromwich, the son of a civil engineer, and enjoyed what he describes as a 'sheltered' grammar-school upbringing. Although his 39-year-old face bears the lines of a life lived to the hilt, his waistline looks about the same as it was when he was 19, and his blond curls, although cut a bit shorter, show no signs of receding. Plant agrees that he has emerged 'relatively unscathed' from the turmoil that surrounded Led Zeppelin, the group which scaled Olympian peaks of success in the Seventies while retaining a remote public profile that served to encourage some of the least savoury tales of excess in the pantheon of rock legends. 'We are right in the eye of the storm. We were riding through the middle of this black hole without every really touching the sides and feeling any of the momentum. I still played soccer on a Sunday, everybody did what they wanted to do when they weren't working, but around that normality there was this great myth.' The myth suffered a shattering collision with reality when Zeppelin's drummer, John Bonham, died after a drinking spree during rehearsals at Jimmy Page's Windsor home in 1980. 'Bonzo left us at short notice,' Plant remarks as an aside, in the same jokily cavalier tone of voice that he uses to describe himself and Logan's mother as 'happily divorced'. His confident bearing gives the impression that there is very little in life that Plant is not capable of handling with a touch of positive thinking and a few words of deprecating humour. Even the challenge of carving out a solo career after Led Zeppelin's demise did not daunt him. 'The reality of just being <a name="HIT_3">Robert Plant, potential maker of a million mistakes, in 1981 was, in many contradictory ways, quite exciting; to be standing there with a career under my arm - with one foot on the platform and the other foot on the train, as Dylan said. The question was, do I jump on this train and keep going, or stay on the platform and turn into Ronnie James Dio's dad?' But Plant has paid dearly in this country for his artistic pride. By turning his back on the heavy metal fans, who, whether he likes it or not, are the legacy of Zeppelin's era or primacy, he has sacrificed a ready-made constituency of avid music purchasers. 'I would have 10,000 headbangers at any gig if I were to do the tricks and make the appropriate record - but I couldn't stand the idea of it.' Of the five albumns he has released during his solo career, it is the collection off old rock 'n' roll favourites, recorded with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page under the name of the Honeydrippers, that has so far sold the most copies (about 2.5 million) and yielded his biggest hit single, 'Sea Of Love', No 3 in America in 1984. The Americans, who accept the idea of rock as a legitimate activity for grown-ups in a way that the British never have, are much better disposed towards Plant's latter-day output. The new album, Now And Zen, is in the US Top 10 and he is selling out arena shows a long way in advance of his tour there. He may have opted for a dignified withdrawal from the histrionics which he did so much to establish in the first place, but Plant is a long way from turning in his microphone for a pipe and slippers. 'I'm a very strong character,' he observes. 'I've stopped smoking after 20 years. I take vitamins, I read a lot and I try and calm down when I can. But it's hard like throwing a bucket of water on a volcano, really.'

Well said, Mudslider.

Source: November 11, 2011 at Olympia Record Fair, taken by littletriggers, Steve, on Flicker.

Another photograph of a Japanese music book courtesy of Ross Halfin's Diary 15//04/2012