When talking about John Paul Jones Led Zeppelin may be the highest profile work he has done in his career, but it certainly does not represent the majority of his musical life. Jones was the bassist and keyboard player for the group, a role he almost missed due to the intervention of Cliff Richards, who had him on the shortlist for his own band The Shadows in the late 1960's. A session player like Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, it was while recording work for one of The Yardbirds albums that Page and Jones first got the chance to sit down ...
