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Jimmy Page and David Coverdale: Who’d Have Thought…?

Phil Sutcliffe, Q, April 1993

... thought, that is, that the devil devotee doyen of decibel dementia (that's Jimmy Page) and the python-powered potentate of poodle rock, David Coverdale, could, after 25 years on parallel but untouching tracks, join leather-trousered forces? But they have! A quivering Phil Sutcliffe struggles with the waves of testosterone and unlikely bonhomie.

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