Jimmy interview in Sunday Times magazine (UK)

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I promised I'd report back on this feature which was published at the
weekend.  Basically it's an interview based on Jimmy's forthcoming
autobiography.  The journalist is Tony Barrell (who I haven't heard
of).  As the piece is aimed at a wide audience, many of who won't know
anything about Jimmy or Led Zeppelin, it's a fairly wide-ranging
interview covering all the usual subjects which we know well
(childhood in Epsom (although I never knew that Jimmy used to be a
choirboy), session work, formation of Zep, tours, Crowley, groupies
etc etc).  There are numerous photos in the article, most of which
I've seen before - although there's a very recent one of Jimmy with
his LP at Abbey Road Studios in London.  I wonder what he was doing
there?!

OK, here's possibly the most interesting section (quoted verbatim):

Before Page has to leave, I ask if we will ever see Led Zeppelin play
again.  "Never say never", he shrugs.  He tells me that after their
one-off "reunion" show at the O2 in 2007 - at which the late drummer
John Bonham was replaced by his son, Jason - Page did work on new
material with John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham with a view to going on
tour.  Robert Plant was unavailable, duetting with Alison Krauss, so
they considered finding a new singer.  Page now says that this project
foundered, from his viewpoint, because of early "pressure to bring in
a vocalist", when he would have preferred to develop the music further
before they did that.  "The music always has to come first", he says.

Dawn