Editing Jimmy Page (section)

=== 1968–1980: Led Zeppelin ===
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[[File:Led Zeppelin - Jimmy Page (1977).jpg|thumb|upright|Jimmy Page performing onstage in 1977]]
[[File:Zoso Jimmy Page Saturn sigil.svg|thumb|Jimmy Page's sigil from ''[[Led Zeppelin IV]]''.]]
Led Zeppelin are one of the best-selling music groups in the history of audio recording. Various sources estimate the group's worldwide sales at more than 200 or even 300 million albums. With 111.5 million RIAA-certified units, they are the second-best-selling band in the United States. Each of their nine studio albums reached the top 10 of the US Billboard album chart, and six reached the number-one spot.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}

Led Zeppelin were the progenitors of heavy metal and hard rock, and their sound was largely the product of Page's input as a producer and musician.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}} The band's individualistic style drew from a wide variety of influences. They performed on multiple record-breaking concert tours, which also earned them a reputation for excess. Although they remained commercially and critically successful, in the later 1970s, the band's output and touring schedule were limited by the personal difficulties of the members.

Page explained that he had a very specific idea in mind as to what he wanted Led Zeppelin to be, from the very beginning:
{{blockquote|I had a lot of ideas from my days with the Yardbirds. The Yardbirds allowed me to improvise a lot in live performance and I started building a textbook of ideas that I eventually used in Zeppelin. In addition to those ideas, I wanted to add acoustic textures. Ultimately, I wanted Zeppelin to be a marriage of blues, hard rock and acoustic music topped with heavy choruses – a combination that had never been done before. Lots of light and shade in the music.<ref name="autogenerated1" />}}

Led Zeppelin broke up in 1980 following the death of Bonham at Page's home. Page initially refused to touch a guitar, grieving for his friend.<ref name="DuNoyer"/><ref name="uncutinterview">{{cite web|url=http://www.uncut.co.uk/features/john-paul-jones-on-jimmy-page-37701|first=David|last=Cavanagh|title=John Paul Jones on Jimmy Page|work=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]|date=29 December 2008|access-date=18 February 2015}}</ref> For the rest of the 1980s, his work consisted of a series of short-term collaborations in the bands [[The Firm (rock band)|the Firm]], [[the Honeydrippers]], reunions and individual work, including film soundtracks. He also became active in philanthropic work.