On January 8, 1944 James Patrick Page was born. He grew up on a farm that his great uncle owned near Northampton.
When he was eight his father moved them to the London suburbs.
When Page was thirteen his parents bought him a Spanish guitar and he picked it right up. Page only took
about six lessons he was just as good as his teacher. What he really liked about the guitar was that they didn't teach in
school, it was something that he could teach himself.
After graduating from school Page applied for a job as a laboratory assistant. Before his applications could
be looked over he accepted an invitation to be the guitarist in a band called Neil Chrisian and the Crusaders.
Page was very well off concering his equipment. He was one of the first guys with a foot pedal and he played
one of the best kind of guitars for those days, a Gretsch guitar.
Neither though he got very recoginized while he was in Neil Christian and the Crusaders he didn't like them
very much because they made him do a lot of publicity stunts.
So after a while he quit the band and he went back to his first love, art. So he enrolled in
Art College. He only attended for eightteen months though.