Quick: Which Rolling Stones Hit Features Jimmy Page on Lead Guitar?
If you’ve ever wondered how it would sound if Jimmy Page were in the Rolling Stones in the mid Eighties—and surely at least 12 of you have wondered about this—you’ve just stumbled upon the answer. “One Hit (to the Body),” a Top 40 Rolling Stones hit from 1986, features the Led Zeppelin co-founder on lead guitar.
The song’s Russell Mulcahy-directed music video, above, shows Keith Richards skulking around an industrial, Mad Max-style warehouse with a double-bound Fender Tele during the guitar solo (2:27). Well, at least they got the guitar right—Page (who is not shown at all in the clip) is obviously playing his B-bender-equipped Tele—the one he’s holding on the cover of the July 1986 issue of Guitar World magazine (below). Page was using his B-bender a lot back then; it’s heard on his mid-Eighties recordings with the Firm and the Honeydrippers, not to mention Led Zeppelin’s In Through the Out Door.
Why did this session even happen? Good question! Page was close to the Stones—geographically speaking—right around the time of Live Aid in July 1985. His guitar contribution was the result of a brief session with Ronnie Wood after Page asked to hear what the band was working on. The song, which reached Number 38 on the U.S. charts, was featured on the Stones’ 1986 album, Dirty Work, which sold an impressive 4 million copies worldwide.
Of course, Wood and Richards also play guitar on “One Hit (to the Body)”; that’s Wood playing the acoustic intro. The song is even credited to Jagger/Richards/Wood.
Jimmy Page performance photo (homepage): Clive Rose/Getty Images
Source: www.guitarworld.com
