Following a video chronicling Wray’s influential career, Page appeared on screen with a pre-recorded message. UCR report.
In it, the Led Zeppelin rocker recalled hearing Wray’s classic instrumental “Rumble” for the first time when he was a teen and thinking, “What is this? In those days, there were many guitar instrumentals, but as a 14 year old kid who could barely play the guitar, it really had an effect on me. The vigor and the strength and the power in it. And you know something else, it was fearless. It was just phenomenal. The essence of cool.”
The one and only @JimmyPage is in the building, absolutely rocking the stage with "Rumble" in tribute to 2023 Inductee @Link_Wray.
Stream #RockHall2023 NOW on @DisneyPlus! pic.twitter.com/6QgI4dBIuo— Rock Hall (@rockhall) November 4, 2023
Page later referred to Wray was his “hero,” and expressed sincere appreciation to be able to induct him into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
ジミー・ペイジ出た！！！@rockhall 私の目が間違ってなければ！！Jimmy Page!! pic.twitter.com/csfJONnbs1
— akemi nakamura ☮️ (@aaakkmm) November 4, 2023
Page has famously stayed largely out of the spotlight since the turn of the Millennium. His last studio album, Walking into Clarksdale, was released in 1998, with the live album Live at the Greek arriving two years later.
His live performances have also been extremely rare. According to Setlist.fm, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame appearance was his first public performance since 2014.
Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Paul McCartney, Noel Gallagher+others set for new Hipgnosis movie
Several high-profile musicians, including Noel Gallagher, Paul McCartney and members from Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, will appear in Anton Corbijn’s first feature-length movie Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis.
It will arrive in cinemas and on-demand on July 14th and tells of Hipgnosis, the art collective of Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey Powell and Peter Christopherson, who created a number of iconic record sleeves for the likes of Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and many more.
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant interviewed separately for “Squaring The Circle (The Story Of Hipgnosis)” which will open in cinemas across the US.
