Hi 'Codyman70', Welcome to the site - hope you enjoy it. What you say about Boleskine is interesting. Would you possibly share with us here how you came to get inside the house. Were you a friend of the factor, Malcolm Dent? Did you ever get to meet Jimmy? When I was as school, us kids were taken on a geography field trip to a place called Lagganlia. This was December 1974. I asked the poor soul who was being paid to drive us around if he knew anything about Jimmy, and all he could say was that Jimmy was 'very popular with the local women'!!!

This is reported on Billboard. At least Jason would be keen. A comment at the end from a contributor says it wouldn't be a reunion because Jason was not a member of Zeppelin. Speaking only for myself - I'd be ecstatic if it happened - I couldn't care less that he wasn't an original member. http://www.billboard.com/events/i-d-love-a-led-zeppelin-reunion-jason-bonham-1004109040.story?tag=hpfeed#/events/i-d-love-a-led-zeppelin-reunion-jason-bonham-1004109040.story?tag=hpfeed

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Thanks PlanetPage and Alice 75. I thought it was commendable that Mr Hobbs didn't utter a word about any of the band's private business. It is quite a rare thing nowadays. There are photographs of Mr Hobbs on both his own page, and his condolence page, on a social networking site, but I don't think it is appropriate for me to post them here.

I told in my first posting on this site about the sad passing of Jimmy's personal assistant, Rick Hobbs earlier this year. Here is an article regarding the auctioning of some of Mr Hobbs' personal effects. 'Tucked inside Rick's Led Zeppelin LP covers, there were found four pencil sketches by the great Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais, believed to be gifts from the band for his devoted service.' There is also interesting detail about his work for, and relationship with, the band:- http://www.thisisthe...p_for_auction/. They’re expected to fetch £4,000 at an auction on Saturday, August 14. (Source: Classic Rock Magazine website)

Here's one of Scarlet and Tom together:-

This is truly trivia (or scraping the barrel, depending on your viewpoint!), but UK society magazine 'Tatler' states in its 2010 Restaurant Guide that Jimmy is a regular at Chutney Mary Indian restaurant on the Kings Road, London. A description from the 2009 Guide states 'It claims to be London's most romantic Indian restaurant and it isn't far off the mark. Coruscating crystals and candles light the dining room and conservatory and the food is extremely refined ('No more brown food on the plate,' is the mantra of co-owner Namita Panjabi). Chutney Mary is a very swish, smart restaurant that has for a long time been upping the ante for Indian food in London.' www.chutneymary.com

Hi Conneyfogle, Could you expand on what you mean by 'apparently Ross has his own people'. Have you been told that RH is involved in the site's development etc? It always looks to me like Ross has taken over Jimmy's life! My vote would go to Steve A Jones - he has an excellent writing style, is a dedicated fan and takes great care over the accuracy of what he writes. SAJ would bring a fresh perspective to the project.

Hi Toni, If you look a few topics down on this Led Zep Trivia forum, you will find a topic which I started when I found a posting on a groupie site by Bebe Buell. http://forums.ledzep...ks-about-jimmy/ Some of the ex-groupies have their own website, like Pamela Des Barres, which you could check out. A few of the girls (PDB and Lori Maddox) are on Facebook. They are also featured on the FamilyZepp website. Hope this helps.

Hi 'Duckman' Your experience with Halfin doesn't surprise me. At the premieres for 'It Might Get Loud', he was trying to stop fans taking photographs (outside in the open) when Jimmy was turning up at the theatres. He uses his association with Jimmy to keep himself in the limelight. I laughed at his diary entry for 11 June 2010 when he posted a new photograph of himself to try to attract women (his girlfriend dumped his earlier this year). He said "Here you go girls, slightly well-used, free and single..." At the same time, he put the new photo on his Facebook page - the sweet smell of desperation. He is mainly interested in women from the Far East. May I suggest to him that he visits the Edinburgh Festival because the LadyBoys of Bangkok are doing their annual show, and these guys may be the only ones that find RH in any way attractive.

Last night, Monday 26 July, the BBC were running a trailer for their forthcoming history programme, The Normans. They played the guitar intro from 'The Battle of Evermore' continuously throughout the ad (didn't feature the vocals). Here is a link about the programme:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/07_july/22/norman.shtml

Rolling Stone Keith Richards' gorgeous former model wife has beaten cancer of the bladder. Link from the UK Daily Mail below:- http://www.dailymail...tle-cancer.html

'Knebby' date='14 July 2010 - 08:33 AM' timestamp='1279096407' post='468889' Bob Geldof approached Robert. Robert told him he would consider it and let him know, as he would be on a US tour at the time and had commitments. Geldof then announced his name in the list of artists who would be appearing when he revealed the gig at a press conference - a typical Geldof trick, leaving the artist to risk looking like a jerk if they backed out. Geldof pulled the same trick with Madonna in 2005 at the 'Make Povery History' gig in London. He announced her appearance before she had the chance to do so, thereby committing her to perform. Madonna put Geldof in his place beautifully when she was interviewed backstage at the concert by Fearne Cotton. FC asked 'did Bob phone you to do the concert?' to which Madonna replied 'Bob doesn't have my phone number'. She then said that Geldof had had to go through mutual friends. I have never bought into the 'Saint' Bob thing, nor have I believed that his intentions were entirely altruistic. On Monday, the Daily Mail featured an excerpt from a book by showbusiness agent, Jon Roseman, which appears to confirm this contention to some extent. I've copied the relevant passage here:- "..... Thankfully, not every shoot was so problematic and I'm proud to have worked on some excellent videos, including one which promoted the Boomtown Rats' single I Don't Like Mondays in 1979. Everyone raved about it, including Bob Geldof, who never seemed to love anything very much except Paula Yates. But the band's popularity waned in the Eighties, leading to a curious encounter I had with Geldof in early 1985. It was a few months before the historic Live Aid concert burst onto the world's TV screens and I happened to be in New York visiting a friend at CBS Records. When I learned that Geldof was in one of the meeting rooms there, talking on the phone to one of the other Boomtown Rats, I popped in to say hello. Seeing me at the door, he waved at me to sit down and continued with his animated conversation. Listen we've got to do it,' I heard him say. 'It could be the way back for f***'s sake.' At the time, I thought it seemed that he might have seen Live Aid as a chance to revive the career of his band, as well as benefiting the people of Ethiopia. No one, including him, had any conception as to what an iconic event it would turn out to be ......" The rest of the article is off-topic for this thread, but it's worth reading for an insight into Roseman's dealings with the big names in rock. I've posted the link below:- www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1294148/Rod-mind-cocaine--I-breaking-Britt-Eklands-house-The-lurid-confessions-showbiz-insider.html#ixzz0tkdGKOQ4

Hi Danny, The subject of JPJ and JP not going to Karac Plant's funeral has rumbled on for years. I wish I had kept my Zeppelin newspaper cuttings because I am sure I remember reading some years after the funeral that Jimmy Page said he had written to Robert asking if he wanted him to attend. My recollection was that he couldn't understand why RP was now making out that he (JP) simply didn't attend. If John Paul Jones and Jimmy had turned up, it would have meant all four band members were present and the public might have taken photographs/asked for autographs at a small child's funeral. I think that both JP and JPJ are sufficiently well mannered to have made approaches as to whether their attendance at the funeral would be advisable. I realise that you have a contact who was/is very close to the band and, also, that lovely Knebby is a friend of Robert's, but I am going to say it anyway. What is worse JPJ and JP not attending a funeral, or Robert cheating on his wife and the mother of his children for years with a succession of groupies?

I've just done 60 votes and the pain is going all the way up to my shoulder - come on everybody - let's stuff Pink Floyd!

It might be difficult for people to share the photographs because they run the risk of damaging the book's binding/spine. If sharing pics is not possible, perhaps owners could give a description of any photos that shed any new light on Jimmy, or any revelations in his accompanying narrative (although I have my doubts if he will give anything new away).

To me, the entire flat looks like the bizarre design fantasy of a seriously unhappy child. There's an element of 'The Emperor's New Clothes' with some designers. If they are the 'designer of the moment', everyone will say how wonderful their work is, no matter how ghastly.

http://rockpopfashion.com/blog/?p=62 I found the above link featuring Paul Reeves who designed the interior of Peter Grant's Kensington Mews flat in the '70's on a money no object commission. The page shows the finished interior in Ideal Home magazine. The page brought back memories for me because I visited London as a teenager in May 1975 and went to the Biba store in Kensington which is featured on the page. My next stop was to the Equinox bookshop nearby. I've seen discussions on this site as to when this shop opened. I don't know the exact date, but what I can tell you is that it was definitely open in May 1975. I did not go inside because I knew that my teenage pocket money would not go anywhere near buying the very upmarket books in the window, and I would have been embarrassed if the famous owner was inside. They were not the type of books that you see in high street book shops. The window was covered so that you couldn't look past the books in the window into the shop, so I looked through the glass front door - the shop was definitely open for trade at that point. The interior was not crammed full of books, but the volumes that were there looked very expensive and rare. What struck me about the premises was that they were well maintained in terms of being freshly painted and refurbished, although in Holland Park I suppose that is what you would expect. In my home city, rare books shops tend to be a bit tatty, both inside and outside.

From the News of the World, Sunday 4 July:- http://www.newsofthe...ick-Jagger.html Some might say that this makes for good pre-release publicity for Keith's upcoming autobiography, but it looks like Keith isn't going to hold back. Humping Jack Trashed Rolling Stone Keith Richards exposes Mick Jagger in tell-all book By Douglas Wight, 04/07/2010 ROLLING Stone Keith Richards is taking an astonishing pop at Mick Jagger - in a book so savage management fear it could split the band for good. In his autobiography the guitarist blasts the group's pout-lipped frontman for his wild love life, drug-taking and infidelity. Insiders say Keith has already been asked to tone down the book, called Life, after an early draft was deemed too close to the bone. But it is still feared the final version, out in October, could mean the 66-year-old rockers - who famously did not speak for three years in the '80s after a row - can NEVER work together again. Last night a source close to the band, famous for songs like Jumping Jack Flash, said: "In the draft Keith didn't hold back on Mick. It was years of frustration coming out. "He's used it to set the record straight on Mick's philandering, the affairs, the drug-taking and the fights. It promises to be dynamite. "It's thought management asked him to tone it down but he's been determined to tell it his way." It is believed Keith - wed to wife Patti Hansen since 1979 - has long disapproved of Mick's chaotic love-life. Jagger has fathered seven kids by four women and had flings with beauties including Angelina Jolie and Carla Bruni. Keith has spent three years writing the memoir after signing a £3.6million deal with publishers Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Our source added: "It will be huge. Keith used to joke that he couldn't remember half the things he'd done but his memory seems fine - and that's bad news for Mick."

Not kidding at all! The NME turned on Zeppelin and their ilk in the late '70's, when NME journalists were taken in by punk. Any musician over the age of 25 was being referred to as 'a boring old fart'. The fact that the journalists writing the pieces were also over 25 seemed to have escaped them. I remember the NME in the early/mid-70's and 'hate' is not a word I would have used regarding their treatment of Zeppelin in those days. I had a lengthy conversation in the 1990's with Nick Kent regarding Zep. He usually interviewed Page and was on The Starship on their '75 US tour. He did not say anything at all disparaging about their music. He described Jimmy Page as 'a lost soul'. The only reservations he expressed to me were about John Bonham (as a person, not musically) and Richard Cole, the latter whom he described as 'a servant'. Nick's a nice bloke - he is going to be at the Edinburgh Book Festival this year discussing his last book about the 70's music scene.

I'm sure that I have read that Jimmy is a client of Sir Paul Smith. I remember in one of Ross' diary entries that they went to the Paul Smith Home shop.

Oracle, the quote which you have put in italics is in fact part of the introductory comments made by the moderator/owner of the site when talking to Bebe. The conversation is probably easier to follow if you use the web links I gave at the beginning. LOL.

I 'cached' the page and copied it over to here. This looks like an initial layout. Perhaps his new management have encouraged him to go online with his own site. Coming Soon! Why am I seeing this 'Under Construction' page? Popular Categories: Concert Tour DatesLed Zeppelin AlbumsJimmy Page Led Zeppelin AlbumsConcert Tour DatesJimmy PageLed Zeppelin LyricsJimmy Page BiographyConcert VideosLed Zeppelin Cds

I have posted this on the Trivia site because I appreciate that there are members who are not interested in anything about the band's personal life. I came across this exchange on the groupie website www.voy.com. The moderator/admin had a discussion in 2005 with Bebe Buell regarding her relationship with Jimmy, and asked her to go beyond what she had detailed in her autobiography 'Rebel Heart'. Ronnie Wood's house in Richmond seems to have been a hive of activity!!! I hae copied the conversations over, but here are the links to the conversations:- http://www.voy.com/85692/2663.html http://www.voy.com/85692/2665.html Subject: Re: Further analysis Author: RockGroupieCom [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date Posted: 17:39:41 03/03/05 Thu In reply to: Bebe 's message, "Re: Further analysis" on 09:51:28 03/03/05 Thu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wanted to ask you something about your whole Jimmy relationship thing. How long were you seeing him when this all happened? I know a person can only get so much detail in a book. So, when I read your book, things seemed to go from one quick meeting to a second meeting at a hotel then to a one- nighter then an invite to England and so forth. So I was wondering how long this all took to happen and how involved was it. He apparently started asking Pam DesBarres to marry him back in the day. From what I've read he strikes me as sort of an impulsive guy - like a guy who meets a girl and quickly jumps into "commitment talk" only to back out later. When reading Pam's book and your book, I got the impression he was just a guy that liked handing the girls a bunch of lines to get what he wanted. Nothing struck me as sincere in what he was saying. Subject: Re: Further analysis Author: Bebe [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date Posted: 20:55:46 03/03/05 Thu In reply to: RockGroupieCom 's message, "Re: Further analysis" on 17:39:41 03/03/05 Thu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't want to lay out the entire thing but we hung out about two weeks in LA and then another week or so in NYC before he went back to the UK and started courting me from there. So, I guess all in all, we hung out about 3 weeks before he started "sending" for me and making promises and such. All he asked is that I completely disengage from Todd. He took me to his houses- ALL of them. Scotland too. My favorite was the London house. And no, of course I couldn't fit the whole thing in my book. Everything had to be cut to pieces. You only have so many pages and thats it! One thing about him though is that he really does like being married- in a one on one relationship. What that entails is another story. When I was with him in LA he was not very nice to either Lori or Miss Pamela. He could be cold and distant. He told me he was never serious about Pamela. He did love Lori but he lost interest quickly for some reason. Maybe because she was so young at the time. I'm not sure. All I know is I never felt threatened by any of those girls when I was with him. He stuck very close by my side and proudly displayed me as his date for several important events. Events that he would not allow Lori or Pamela to attend. I really think that is why I wasn't well recieved by the LA girls because I didn't really know them and my BF's never wanted me to get to know them. I was like an outsider from NYC coming in and taking the men folk, HA! I was Todd's GF when Jimmy persued me full hog. He moved right in when I was having a spat with Todd in LA. He rescued me and then tried to keep me from the whole LA scene. We were glued together the whole time I was on the West Coast. Like I said, it was very romantic and he gave me flowers, took me shopping, gave me art books, jewelry- it was outrageous. He loved to brush my hair for long sittings. I've told the story many times- he even flew my pet racoon First Class from LA to NYC. Oh, and he got very jealous and MAD when my Playboy centerfold came out. It had Todd in it as my BF and Page would call me 10 times a day to yell and cry. He was so devestated that I posed nude. He and I started seeing each other in June of 1974 and my centerfold came out in Nov. 1974 so it was all shot by the time we began dating. I just never told him about it, HA! Honestly, I didn't know if I would make it into the magazine and becoming a Playmate was a big surprise- they tell you about three months before it comes out so I kind of knew but still wanted to keep hush about it. Anyway, thats all on this subject for me, HA! I hope he is good to his new wife and happy. She so looks like Lori when she was in her 20's. Lori was very very pretty in that same exotic way. She still looks pretty even today. I don't think Lori ever really fully recovered from her time with Page- she really loved the guy. The only big fight I ever had with Jimmy was over the awful way he treated that poor girl. It bothered me even though I was seeing him. I like Lori. I saw her about five years ago and she was still as sweet as ever and doing very well. She has a son too and no JP is not the father. Lori is about 46 years old now. > >I think Bill Clinton is much better looking than Page >has become. It is especially hard for me because I >dated Page when he was at his most glorious and divine >looking. 1973-74. He NEVER once tried to use whips or >any other stuff. He was very romantic and liked to be >extremely traditional. I sware I'm being honest too- >no joking here. Maybe I brought that out in him or >something but he was very normal in the bedroom >department- and VERY romantic! And when he wanted me >he dumped poor Lori like a hot potato when I'm sure he >could have easily had us both and neither of us would >have known it. He soured on me when I wouldn't dump >Todd all the way for him. He BEGGED me to leave Todd >and swore up and down he would be faithful to me. I >wanted to test the waters but that didn't fly. He ran >off with Ron Wood's wife instead and I ended up >spending the most fun month of my life living at >Woody's house in Richmond Hill while Todd was in India >on a spiritual quest. I got to be one of the boys as >they say! When Jimmy found out I was at Woody's he >called me and said he would send Chrissie Wood home if >I would leave Todd once and for all. I declined and >the rest is history. I'm glad I made the decision I >made because otherwise I would not have run off with >Steven and had my precious daughter. Everything >happens for a reason. BUT, that said, I almost did it. >I almost ran off with JP. He also wanted me to have >his child. I wasn't ready at 20 for that yet, HA!