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Future Led Zeppelin frontman playing rockabilly behind a teenaged Eurobabe??? Incroyable!

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Posted on December 31, 2020 at 16:00:55
John Marks
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At the risk of unseemly self-promotion, I offer a link to my latest Hagerty column, even if only because I think I have gotten to the bottom of the music-biz legend that future Led Zep frontman Jimmy Page played in Rockabilly Eurobabe Françoise Hardy's "first" album.

What a concept.

Sad to say... "too good to fact-check."

But it seems Page played on a later album, as well as on two of Johnny Hallyday's UK releases.

I do want to point out to the incurious who will not click over, that Françoise Hardy brought Rockabilly--in French--to Europe, months before the Beatles released their first album.

AFAIK, Mlle Hardy is still alive; Johnny Hallyday died 2017, never having left the stage from the time he was a 13-year old Franco-Belgian Elvis imitator. Hallyday's 79 or so albums averaged 1 million copies each.

Requiem Aeternam to him.

jm

PS: I have to agree with Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, and Mick Jagger: Mlle. Hardy was one of the most beautiful women of all time.

 

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Well, JP was a studio pro before he was a superstar, posted on December 31, 2020 at 16:09:14
Brian H P
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 He played on LOTS of other peoples' records, probably uncredited on many of them.

 

yeah, including, e.g., Donavan and... the Who (!), posted on December 31, 2020 at 19:31:40
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 Joel Najman on Vermont Public Radio did an hour-long program last week on Jimmy Page's studio work. When Donovan went electric, he brought Page with him (so to speak) -- and Page plays gee-tar (credited as "lead") on the 'OO's I Can't Explain. Page has been quoted as saying, in essence, he didn't know why he was even there with Townshend's playing.

Oh, and he's strumming (if memory serves) acoustic rhythm guitar on Pet Clark's Downtown (now possibly scarred forever after the Christmas Day events in Music City, USA).



all the best,
mrh

 

James Patrick Page..., posted on January 1, 2021 at 00:04:53
musetap
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 Famous bootleg floating around for years and expanded to an insane 8 CD set by the Japanese.

At the link.

Also a short list from RS.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/jimmy-page-before-led-zeppelin-20-great-sixties-session-songs-151465/dave-berry-the-crying-game-1964-171961/

JP Jones was a popular session guy pre Zep too.

"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure



 

RE: Future Led Zeppelin frontman playing rockabilly behind a teenaged Eurobabe??? Incroyable!, posted on January 1, 2021 at 12:58:34
semuta
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 Check out Godard's Masculin Feminin. The backdrop is the French ye ye movement

 

Merci beaucoup, posted on January 1, 2021 at 14:11:38
John Marks
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 A+

john

 

I enjoyed her contribution, posted on January 3, 2021 at 14:08:49
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 to the Moonrise Kingdom soundtrack with the "Le Temps de l'Amour" track. :)

 

I have to agree with ...Mlle. Hardy was one of the most beautiful women of all time., posted on January 22, 2021 at 22:13:15
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 Pics of Françoise Hardy keep appearing in my Pinterest email notifications.

You know what that must mean.


That I agree!
"All thoughts are prey to some beast" - Bill Callahan

"I'll be your mirror
Reflect what you are" - Lou Reed

"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein

 

AAFAIK, she's still alive, and it seems she has kept her looks., posted on January 30, 2021 at 14:00:18
John Marks
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Unlike Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger...

77 years old.

(The photo is from 2018)

jm

 

RE: Future Led Zeppelin frontman playing rockabilly behind a teenaged Eurobabe??? Incroyable!, posted on February 2, 2021 at 15:53:39
russ69
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 She doesn't dance, smoke, or drink...Well not in the movie "Grand Prix" anyway.

 

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