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Fate Placed Jimmy Page In The Yardbirds

. (Classic Rock) Jimmy Page says he was in the right place at the right time when he got a chance to play in the Yardbirds. The guitar icon gave an interview to Soundgarden mainman Chris Cornell in Los Angeles and revealed the night he got his break in the band was after a chaotic university gig in the 60s.

He says: "The way that it happened, it was like fate intervened. I was with Jeff Beck at a Yardbirds concert. It was actually in a big tent at Oxford University. Keith Relf got rather drunk and fell into the drum kit - I thought it was brilliant.

"I'm watching this from the back and there's all these students on the point of graduation all in their evening dress and Keith Relf being an absolutely wonderful punk.

"The bass player, Paul Samwell-Smith, didn't think this was much fun and he left the band that night. They had a marquee club to play and I said, 'Well I'll come in on bass. I played bass at this gig but the idea was to start playing guitar." Read more and watch the interview here.

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