“WOW, boy oh boy, this brings back some memories,” says Led Zeppelin founder, producer and guitarist Jimmy Page when he returns to Headley Grange for the 2008 film about his life It Might Get Loud.

“You come straight into the entrance hall,” he says entering the house. “This is the hall where the drums were set up and Where the Levee Breaks was recorded.

“Bonzo (John Bonham) had ordered a new drum kit. His road man had set it up in the hall and when Bonzo came out he started playing in this huge expanse. You get the drums reflecting off the walls - this wonderful ambience to the drums.

“We had a recording truck parked on the outside and we’d be running the wires and cables into the house. The mikes were put up here, over the bannisters.

“We were so comfortable playing with each other, we could take it in any direction.”

It is poignant that it is drummer Bonham whom Page refers to during his return to Headley Grange - three decades after the band made their best-selling 1975 album Physical Graffiti there - as it was Bonham’s decline into alcoholism and heroin abuse and death in 1980, choking on his vomit in his sleep, that ended Led Zeppelin and its eminence on the rock scene on both sides of the Atlantic.

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