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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.
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