The scene sounds made for a rock documentary: Jimmy Page enters a room, Eric Clapton turns his back, and decades of resentment pass between them without a word. Another story has Page bristling at Jimi Hendrix’s fame. A third claims Eddie Van Halen’s guitar playing made him so angry he walked out of a studio.
Put those episodes together and Page becomes the secret villain of a guitar-hero soap opera. But the more interesting story begins when the alleged feuds meet a less theatrical record: musicians recommending one another, sharing stages, making music together, and occasionally speaking with genuine admiration.
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