Led Zeppelin in the Dawn of the Swinging Sixties

The early 1950s were grim years in England boring, but when it ended the decade were musicians as the dawn chorus was one of the Swinging Sixties.

In Britain, there was no coffee bras, no commercial television, no jukebox, not a teen pop star. The youth of 1950 were the same as it was for previous generations. They were silent, normal embryo sluggish adults without interference until maturity.

Their free time for sports, ballroom spentDancing, or spectators. Sank in the stables of the local "dope" came face to face with their transfer to the fantasies of the glamorous face of filmdom's celluloid. His early musical influences were the stars of American cinema, not a star record.

Bill Haley and Elvis Presley changed the UK's own production and then pop stars such as Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard Fans dressed. "

The abolition in 1960 was in the United Kingdom by the mandatory two years of community service for a 18-year-oldliberating effect on young people. It 'been a breath of freedom, the excesses that led to the Swinging Sixties was out of this freedom.

It was those early years that led to Led Zeppelin.

The cult of the teenager in the UK by the end of conscription can be dated. It was not forced discipline children were able to do what they wanted, unhindered by the call of military service, characterized in that the former teen obedient, conventional young adults.

Thousands ofTeenager took up the guitar in the hope of emulating their heroes and play the music they love. It 'was a form of rebellion.

Boy, 16, Jimmy Page of Epsom, near London, joined a group that became the first red caps and then, as seemed beautiful square - was the name of a brand of milk - the red cats.

In 1960 I met Jimmy Page and we became friends. I was with different musicians, I read for my performance poetry back to the Rock and RollAccompaniment, I called missile technology.

Jimmy playing guitar in a group based in London run by Chris Tidmarsh, then transformed into Swinging Sixties pop star, Neil Christian.

At the moment I am writing a book on the Big Beat scene and Jimmy were introduced, many of the stars in the book. I was a rented house on a clock bell, rye and life of Jimmy and cats reds are also used to stay here.

Radcliffe Hall, the lesbian author of "The Well ofSolitude "once lived next door. Overcoat I bought it and have a photo of me, it helps performance rockets at the University of Cambridge, while a young Jimmy Page in the background giggling.

Jimmy supported me in many stage and TV appearances with our last appearance in a joint show at the Mermaid Theatre in London in July 1961.

At this point I was 20 and no longer a teenager. My book was published and it seemed time to change. I left Englandmissed the Swinging Sixties.

Jimmy, however, stayed and absorbed everything that is happening in the youth music scene and it was. As a result, in 1968, his energy, experience and talent to the world the incredible Led Zeppelin.

Where playing guitar as a teenager, music was lost for a poet of support, was an icon of great music, it remains today.