Get your ticket at the station of the Rock Island Line.ĬORNISH: That's Jimmy Page of the band Led Zeppelin. And if you want to ride, you got to ride it like you find it. Have a listen.ĭONEGAN: (Singing) The Rock Island Line - she's a mighty good road. You'll find so many of the guitarists from the '60s will all say Lonnie Donegan was the influence. Then I started strumming away like - not (unintelligible) but having a go, just sort of strumming chords and all of that stuff. PAGE: So this guitar was there, and then somebody showed me how to tune it up - somebody at school. Get your ticket at the station of the Rock Island Line. But if you want to ride, you got to ride it like you find it. Yeah, the Rock Island Line - she's a mighty good road. The Rock Island Line is the road to ride. By the time you get to the end of this, he's really spitting it out - "Rock Island Line." It's fantastic stuff.ĭONEGAN: (Singing) Down the Rock Island Line - she's a mighty good road. Now, the thing is that he'd been in a jazz band prior to that, and he really understood all of this sort of blues, American country, blues and all of that. Sort of every Saturday there would be a show on the television where usually he was on every other week, and it was just something to behold at the time, just his whole passion and the way that he deliver this material. But there he was, playing, like, an acoustic guitar. Now, I'll tell you where I'm going, Boy - down the Rock Island Line.
The song I'm going to sort of give as an illustration of this is "Rock Island Line."ĭONEGAN: (Singing) I got pig iron. And what we had over in England was this guy Lonnie Donegan. PAGE: And there was this sort of explosion of music in the '50s. And the man say, well, you're all right boy just get on through. LONNIE DONEGAN: (Singing) I got all livestock. But it did have all the string on, which was pretty useful. JIMMY PAGE: It was the campfire guitar, you know? It was sort of, you know, round hole - yeah, literally that, like a campfire. And in their new home, someone had left behind a guitar. His family moved from the London suburbs to the town of Epsom.
For the book "Your Song Changed My Life," NPR Music's Bob Boilen spoke to Page about the song that changed his life, and it's not a hard-rocking song. (SOUNDBITE OF LED ZEPPELIN SONG, "BLACK DOG")ĬORNISH: Page is one of the founding members of the rock band Led Zeppelin.
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