On this day in 2009, the documentary It Might Get Loud was released on DVD - just in time for Christmas! It is about three wonderful eccentrics, Jack White, The Edge and myself, and this communion that we have. We came from totally different walks of life, but each of us had come to a crisis point where we had considered giving up music. In my case, I went to art college. We all reached that crisis point but we carried on, and I thought that was really revealing. It was great to hear each other’

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