breaking news; Jimmy Page musical success secret reveal……..
In 1981, director Michael Winner, who happened to be a neighbor of Page’s although they had never met, was assembling the film Death Wish II. It had been seven years since his original Charles Bronson-starrer became a controversial cultural touchstone and influenced myriad exploitation movies that came in its wake. The sequel follows New York vigilante Paul Kersey (Bronson) and his adult daughter Carol to LA. After she is murdered by gang members, Kersey’s thirst for vengeance returns and he seeks to gun down all of the men responsible for her death.
While studio execs had already worked out that Isaac Hayes would compose the music (for literally nothing), Winner was not happy with this prospect. He did not like being left out of the decision-making process and wanted someone else. Considering that Page might have some time for new projects, he contacted Zeppelin’s manager Peter Grant and worked out a deal where the famed guitarist would work on the soundtrack for little or no pay. (It hasn’t been revealed what that sum was; the idea was to get his creative juices flowing again.) Page had actually written a half hour of droning, unsettling experimental music for Kenneth Anger that went unused in his 1972 horror short film Lucifer Rising (but was later compiled on the 2012 compilation Lucifer Rising and Other Sound Tracks). Here the guitarist was going to write more music and with more variety.
