On this day in 1969, Led Zeppelin II was released. It began with rehearsals at my home in Pangbourne and 'Whole Lotta Love' and 'What Is and What Should Never Be' were later recorded at London's Olympic Studio Number 1 with George Chkiantz, who engineered the basic tracks and some guitar overdubs. This provided the foundation for the rest of the tracks to be recorded and overdubbed at various studios in America during our forthcoming tour. We recorded and overdubbed our way from West Coast to Ea

On this day in 2005, I was asked to play the New York Stock Exchange and was loaned a guitar by Gibson and an amp from somebody else to play down to the opening bell. Indeed I managed that. I was asked to sign another guitar for the stock exchange and signed it '11.5.2005' - as you would in England - but of course in America it was '5.11.2005'. | Jimmy Page