PAGE JOINS THE FIRM
The Firm, the debut album by the group led by Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers from Free, is released. Page tells Sounds of the previous three years, “I was just terrified to go out and play, purely because I thought if I played badly, they’d think that was it… the media is going to knock us, period.” (He also reveals he likes the Sex Pistols and Howard Jones). On February 23, debut single Radioactive peaks at UK Number 76, while the album charts at 15 in early March. The group play no Led Zeppelin or Free songs live, but closing track Midnight Moonlight is an unreleased Zeppelin track, originally titled Swan Song. The group split after 1986’s Mean Business.