After having a near-death experience in the late 1980's and spending several months in hospital, Page gravitated towards music. Initially it was a good form of therapy. He bought a keyboard from his Mother's catalogue and spent 10 hours a day for about 18 months sat in his grotty little bedsit teaching himself how to play the thing. Within 6 months he had composed his first piece of music, which he then recorded at a friends studio. The result was a 30-minute tape of instrumental stuff based on the trauma he was going through at the time. Not as depressing as it sounds! Most of it however, as Page himself would be the first to admit, does sound a bit naff now but there are one or two really good moments that still stand up and point the way to what was to follow.

Shortly after that in 1992 Page bought his first guitar. A cheap but cheerful acoustic and again, within a few months of tedious and painful learning, he was writing his first songs. 'Open mic.' sessions followed and in '93 he formed a band. It went the way of most bands of course - heaps of promise, a nice little demo, and a few well-received gigs but ultimately doomed to the fate of artistic and personal differences!

Page went on to play keyboards in a couple of bands during the nineties but it was his own song writing and performing that he was and still is most passionate about, honing his craft and just trying to become better. In the late 90's Page played a series of gigs in London and at festivals, and in 2001 went to Australia and New Zealand where he released and toured with 'Between the fire and the future', a C.D featuring some of his best songs of a back catalogue of about 90. This was, in his words - 'a fantastic, life-affirming experience'.

In 2002, Page returned to England and set about recording 'What's gone before'. A collection of mostly new songs he'd written on his travels 'downunder' and considered by many to be his best work to date.

So what next? Well, a tour around Europe for the summer of 2003 is being planned followed by a more permanent relocation to Australia. And I'm sure wherever he goes Page will find an audience for his beautiful, uplifting, melodic and sometimes emotionally powerful songs that express universal themes that hit you in the back of the cranium and you say 'yeah, I know that feeling'. Songs I think, of incredible honesty and integrity and would highly recommend listening to.

In an artistic world where increasingly style over substance rules and the doom and gloom merchants are seen to be cool, Page bucks these trends and makes for a refreshing and rewarding change, which is beyond fashion.

This is music for people who still like to listen.

R.K. - Biographer.