[Slowhand] Page Gets Spot on London's Walk of Fame

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Page Gets Spot on London's Walk of Fame

LONDON (AP) - Jimmy Page hasn't yet made it up the stairway to heaven, 
but he's the first to reach the new British Walk of Fame.

The former Led Zeppelin guitarist cast his hand prints in cement Monday 
as the first music legend to feature on London's reply to the Hollywood 
Walk of Fame.

``It's a real privilege and a great honor to be the first. I'm really 
chuffed,'' said Page, 60. ``A Walk of Fame is a fantastic idea, and it's 
high time we had one in London.''

The site of the British version, which will feature popular music 
giants, is taking shape outside the new Virgin Music superstore on 
Piccadilly Circus, London's landmark crossroads.

Page predicted it would soon become crowded with hand prints. ``If you 
started putting in all the people I think are deserving, you could cover 
the whole of London,'' he said.

Led Zeppelin - which included singer Robert Plant, bassist John Paul 
Jones and drummer John Bonham, who died in 1980 - was one of the top 
rock bands in history and produced nine chart-topping albums from 1969 
to 1979.

Its most famous song was the epic ``Stairway to Heaven,'' which was 
never released as a single but became one of the most requested radio 
songs of all time.

Led Zeppelin was back on top of the U.S. rock chart last year with a 
greatest hits album, ``How the West Was Won.''

Page frequently is rated as one of the greatest rock guitarists in 
history. In 2002, a readers' survey of Total Guitar magazine rated him 
No. 2 to the late Jimi Hendrix.

08/23/04 13:32
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