JIMMY PAGE

This story is gold 😂 😂

"One morning at the beginning of 1965, I’m having breakfast by myself at the Continental Hyatt House in Hollywood, and in staggers Jimmy. I said, ‘What happened to you?’ He said, ‘Jackie invited me to spend some time with her. And she restrained me.’ So I said, ‘What exactly did she do?’ And he wouldn’t answer, but whatever it was, it appeared that he’d been held against his wishes. Up to this point, Jimmy was like a Jonas Brother, a very gentle Yes-Sir-No-Ma’am kind of guy, and here he was as some kind of boy-toy captive of Jackie DeShannon” 

"I was backstage with Chris [Robinson of The Black Crowes] and I met Jimmy Page for the first time, and he had just seen the movie. He came up to me and said, ‘Your movie was brilliant, and it's so nice to meet you,’ and all I could say was, ‘You're Jimmy Page!’ [...] It was weird because I had Jimmy Page all over my trailer walls while I was filming. I knew everything about him — all the girls he was with. [...] And when I met him, he had such a soft voice. I was like, ‘But you’re Jimmy Page! Aren’t you supposed to be into S&M or something?’”

“We were in the Hilton on Sixth Avenue, and when I woke up the next morning, Jimmy asked if I’d had a good night. I told him I’d just sat in my room and watched television. Turned out they’d arranged to have some hookers and porn films and whips delivered to my room, but the girls had been stopped by the house detective before they got up to my floor. I mean, I barely knew what the word ‘hooker’ meant. Jimmy looked very disappointed” 

“Here’s the wrapping paper and card from my Christmas gift from Jimmy Page back in 1969. Also the telegram that came with the $ he sent me to purchase an Aleister Crowley manuscript. Sadly the divine necklace enclosed was stolen. I still have the memories- and the cute wrapping paper!”

— Pamela De Barres via her Instagram 

Jimmy and Charlotte in 1970 “Jimmy met Charlotte literally on his birthday one week after Christmas 1969, and I heard about it and thought, ‘This can’t be true.’ But he stopped calling and when they came to town he invited me up to his room at the Hyatt House to tell me about it. It was the most gentle explanation of how he’d fallen in love and was going to settle down. He just wanted to let me down easy, which I think was incredibly rare in the world at that time” 

“We had been up all night in the studio. Jimmy was hanging out with Joe Walsh because his daughter was killed in a car accident. They were writing a song for her, and Jimmy was so affected by Joe’s sadness that he couldn’t sleep. He’d been awake for two days”