“It's the first heavy metal riff ever written – and I wrote it!”: How Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page combined to create a groundbreaking song – and then argued over the writing credit

Jeff Beck.

Of all the millions of songs that have been written since the dawn of time, only one can claim to have laid the foundations for what would become Led Zeppelin.

Beck’s Bolero was recorded in 1966 as Jeff Beck’s first solo outing after the guitarist had made a name for himself as Eric Clapton’s replacement in The Yardbirds.