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White, clean and neat: Jimmy Page's head of hair

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Look at the calendar; this is October 2007. Jimmy Page is three months shy of 64. The guitarist is getting up there in age, and it's showing a little. Check out the latest images of him in this newly created photograph collection from Ross Halfin.

Jimmy Page's hair is gray.

Or is it white?

There are some new lines on his face.
He looks at his guitar as if it were a foreign object. Is this a sign of memory loss?

No, thank goodness he remembers how to play.

And how to rock.

7 comments:

Michael said...

I dunno, Steve--are we *sure* he still knows how to play/rock when all he's fingering here are simple E and G chords? ;-)

Anonymous said...

Ah hell... He's looks great. He's 63, not 26! I should look so good at that age. The show on the 26th although not the Zep of the 70's will be great however they choose to pull it off. And lest we not forget, it isn't the 70's anyways...

Steve Sauer said...

Do you think now that his hair is that color, he ought to make it shorter?

Peromyscus said...

Wonderful photos. You have to envy Ross Halfin his opportunities to photograph the man.

Jimmy looks great. Not "great for 63", just...great. He's lovely. And no, he shouldn't cut his hair. Those are genuine Jimmy Page curls!

JMS said...

Pagey's hair was going gray back in the Firm days. He started dyeing it around the time of the Unledded shows.

Anonymous said...

The man has always looked awesome in my book at every age...I agree with "peromyscus"...Jimmy looks great, not "great for 63" but great in his own right.

The grey/white looks good on him and he looks very comfortable with himself in the pics...he smiles more than ever before. He looks wonderful, happy and healthy and I'm glad for him.

And reading from Ross Halfin's diary, congrats are due to him as a new Grandpa...thanks to Scarlet's baby, Martha Alice, just born a few days ago.
Jenyfer

LJ said...

Saw
Jimmy at the closing ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics. He still rocks, and looks as hot as ever.The white hair is becoming.

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