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Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page on the story behind the Led Zeppelin Remasters.

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00:00Hello there, this is Jimmy Page and you're watching Classic Rock.

00:16Well, it's interesting that you said, is there an archive that's carefully annotated?

00:22That's exactly how it started up.

00:24I started annotating my own archive, listing everything that went back to like the very earliest.

00:31It was all analogue tape that I was doing.

00:34And it went back to like the early little sort of three and a quarter inch reels that were done at home when I did my parents.

00:41And it goes to a five inch reel and home demos.

00:46And I was going all the way through and it got through all the material that I had.

00:50I was logging it and collating it and making notes all through the yard birds.

00:55And then, of course, it gets to Led Zeppelin.

00:57And I'd started to do some of that.

01:01But I must say that I'd had an idea that was along the lines of the project that we're all now familiar with when we release this.

01:11But somehow, these sort of gems that were sitting around could come out.

01:18I had another little, you know, another plan.

01:21But this was far more ambitious and much lengthier.

01:24And far more relevant, I think, to the whole picture of what was needed to be sort of presented.

01:31An audible picture of what went on in the studio.

01:34Where it comes to the Led Zeppelin aspect of it, it was hundreds of hours, literally hundreds of hours of listening to tape.

01:43Because you've got to listen to it in real time.

01:45And then, you know, say you've selected a title and you're going and listening to everything you've got around that title.

01:51And there's copious notes being made.

01:54And it's a thank you project.

01:56But I knew it was worthwhile.

01:58Yeah, I had a good idea of, like, the Sunset Sound mixes, things like that.

02:06Alternate version of When the Levy Breaks, et cetera.

02:10Different versions of In the Light.

02:12I knew there was a wonderful version on the Led Zeppelin 3 of...

02:16Or what I had was an early version of Since I've Been Loving You.

02:23The track of A Whole Lot Of Love.

02:25I mean, they're just total gems.

02:27So, to actually be able to put them out in context with the release of the studio albums is great.

02:36You know, it's quite a good way to do it.

02:40There was one surprise that came up because I thought we might have a gap.

02:49And it would be a bit of a nail-biting gap for Presence.

02:56And I thought there'd been something that had been mixed down at the time.

03:03Rough mixes and some songs that didn't make it on Presence.

03:08And I was relieved to find it.

03:10It actually wasn't labelled, the box.

03:12I had to go through all manner of things.

03:14You know, whatever was on tape.

03:17I had to listen to it if it didn't have a proper...

03:19Even if it did, I'd check if it was in the right box.

03:22Anyway, the material for Presence turned up.

03:25So, that was like a breathing a sigh of relief and wiping the forehead.

03:30It was like, oh, thank you, God.

03:32Because that would have...

03:34Without the material for Presence, it would have been tricky.

03:39As was the first album, we had to use a live performance

03:44because it just wasn't the material left over to make up a companion disc.

03:48But now there was for everything, so it was cool.

03:53I'd always intended to make Physical Graffiti's companion disc a single disc

03:59because the pure nature of why the studio album of Physical Graffiti

04:05was a double disc or two vinyls or whatever

04:09was a simple reason that that's what it was.

04:13And this is what it is as far as a companion disc.

04:17There was no point in trying to just put things on there

04:20because it was too close to something that was already on there.

04:26You know, like 10 years gone, there was no point.

04:28Sometimes there just wasn't another version to actually pull out.

04:32So, with whatever there was, I made the best compilation I felt,

04:37showing, you know, the band really at work and at play

04:41and these sort of passionate performances

04:43from each of the individuals and collectively.

04:45Yeah, it's cool.

04:47Shake them all down

04:48Oh, you're a nation

04:51Mommy, you're falling down

04:55When you know about that

05:01Oh, you're paying attention to thatitate miles away,

05:05medio-ándo sellcek miles away

05:08And I try to get money

05:09When you've got people that want this

05:11I want this kind of life

05:12I want this person

05:13to tell you

05:15what happens

05:15You really care about that

05:16So, It's crazy

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