Jimmy Page Stuns Hall Of Fame With Rare Live Performance | HuffPost Entertainment

Led Zeppelin co-founder Jimmy Page delivered a rare performance on Friday as he inducted guitar pioneer Link Wray into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and led the band through a rousing rendition of Rumble.

Page first appeared in a video montage about Wray, who died in 2005. When the video ended, Page was onstage at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn complete with his iconic double-necked cherry Gibson:

The one and only @JimmyPage is in the building, absolutely rocking the stage with \"Rumble\" in tribute to 2023 Inductee @Link_Wray.
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The one and only @JimmyPage is in the building, absolutely rocking the stage with "Rumble" in tribute to 2023 Inductee @Link_Wray .
Stream #RockHall2023 NOW on @DisneyPlus ! pic.twitter.com/6QgI4dBIuo
Rock Hall (@rockhall) November 4, 2023

The 1958 song Rumble has the unusual distinction of being perhaps the only instrumental track ever to be banned from the radio, as some felt the title alone could incite violence.

The nation at that time, anxious over sudden spikes in juvenile delinquency, was eager to drum out anything that could be cited as an instigator, the Library of Congress notes .

Page, who called Wray my hero, wrote on Facebook that he first heard the song when he was 14.

As a guitar instrumental the attitude of it was totally unique in its mystery, imagination and execution it had a profound effect on me, he wrote. Link Wray and Rumble stand alone at the pinnacle in the world of instrumentals.

He added that he was thrilled at the chance to perform the song.

Page has rarely performed in public over the past two decades. His most recent known live musical performance was about 20 seconds of Ramble On during an interview with a French TV show in 2014. He performed with Roy Harper in 2011, and at the 2007 Led Zeppelin reunion .

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His former Zeppelin bandmate Robert Plant has kept up a much more rigorous touring schedule, both on his own and with Alison Krauss, with whom he has released two albums.

Plant made headlines last month when he performed Zeppelins Stairway to Heaven for the first time in 16 years.

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