Jimmy Page also wins Founders Award at the EMP Award ceremony

Jimmy Page performed alongside members from Nirvana and Guns N’ Roses at last night’s Seattle's Experience Music Project Museum. The SEM Project, a non-profit organisation dedicated to contemporary culture, hosted the EMP Award ceremony, helping to serve as a successful fundraiser.

On the same night, Jimmy Page received the EMP Founders Award, which has previously been given to Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart and Jackson Browne. Jimmy Page, dressed in black with strikingly white hair, insisted all evening that he wouldn't be performing. But when Page was given a Gibson Les Paul, it became clear that plans had changed.

Page was then joined by an eclectic mix, including his bandmate from the Firm, Paul Rodgers, Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin, William Duvall of Alice in Chains, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan and Nivarna’s Krist Novoselic.

The performance, which included a version of Led Zeppelins’s 'Rock and Roll', wasn’t exactly flawless - but it was completely redeemed by Page’s beaming passion and confidence.