Jimmy! Jimmy! Jimmy!

Jimmy Page is 62 today.

Almost every rock guitarist from the late '60s to the present day has been influenced by Page. He was a session musician on numerous great 60's songs like Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy Man and The Who's I Can't Explain.

In 1966 he joined the Yardbirds and he and Jeff Beck created a dueling guitar sound.

When the Yardbirds split in 1968 they still had shows to play in Europe, so Jimmy put together a band called The New Yardbirds. In that lineup was fellow session musician John Paul Jones and newcomers Robert Plant and John Bonham. After the tour the band's name was changed to Led Zeppelin...and the rest is history.