LED ZEPPELIN : PAGE PLANT & JONES
In celebration of the imminent reunion of Messrs Page, Plant & Jones, MOJO magazine have compiled an exclusive 'HEAVY NUGGETS' cover mount CD, consisting of 15 choice cuts from 1968-1973.
Featured tracks include THE MOVE's 'Don't Make My Baby Blue' (taken from the album 'Shazam') & PROCOL HARUM's 'Long Gone Geek' (taken from their 'Secrets Of The Hive' 'Best Of' anthology).
Whilst musing on Page & Jones news, we have unearthed multitrack tapes of sessions recorded in March 1966, which feature then session men Jimmy Page & John Paul Jones, that had been hidden deep in the FLY vault.
The sessions, for producer Denny Cordell, were some of the earliest recordings to be made for New Breed Productions, Denny and David Platz's production company. These sessions were for New Breed's new signing BEVERLEY (KUTNER), better known a few years later as Beverley Martyn. The key track from the sessions was a charged interpretation of the Randy Newman song 'Happy New Year', with spirited contributions from Page, Jones & pianist Nicky Hopkins.
'Happy New Year' became New Breed Productions first commercial release as well as being the inaugural release on DECCA's DERAM label.
It will make it's debut appearance on compact disc in February 2008 on a special CD Ace Records are compiling, themed around the songs of Randy Newman.
Other tracks from these Beverley / Page / Jones / Hopkins sessions include original versions of Beverley's own songs that appeared a few years later in re-recorded form on John & Beverley Martyn's classic album 'Stormbringer'. A total of nine tracks were recorded, more news of which will be posted soon.