Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin: The youth of today can consume far more alcohol than I ever did

Led Zep legend Jimmy Page has chronicled his colourful life from choirboy to rock god in one of the year's most powerful music books. ‘I don’t think people were drinking back then in the volume that they drink now,’ says the Led Zeppelin guitarist, who helped make Jack Daniel’s the swig of choice for rock rebels. Jimmy Page lived the life of a rock god – enjoying the adulation of huge stadium crowds and all-night after-parties, with free-flowing booze, drugs and hordes of groupies The last part of the book features Page the elder statesman of rock, closing the 2008 Beijing Olympics and playing with young admirers like Jack White and U2’s The Edge. It would be on YouTube, wouldn’t it?’ Led Zeppelin made nine studio albums and sold 300 million records, becoming the second-best-selling rock band after The Beatles. The choirboy has become a snow-haired rocker cradling a Gibson guitar, with a caption that says: ‘It might get louder…’ ‘Jimmy Page’, the official autobiography by Jimmy Page, is released by Genesis Publications.