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"This riff was gonna be really intense, and probably pretty majestic as well, but quite intriguing”: How Jimmy Page created the Led Zeppelin classic Kashmir

Page on stage with Led Zeppelin in 1975.

Kashmir is perhaps the most revered Led Zeppelin song after Stairway To Heaven. And in a 2015 interview with Rolling Stone magazine (paywall), guitarist Jimmy Page revealed how he created Kashmir as one of the cornerstones of Zeppelin’s legendary 1975 double album Physical Graffiti.

Recalling the recording sessions at Headley Grange, a mansion in Hampshire, Page described how he and drummer John Bonham worked as a pair on the embryonic Kashmir.

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