The following report is courtesy of Katrina Burroughs from Timesonline.co.uk:

Could anything be more rock’n’roll? Sitting in Graham Gore’s kitchen in Pangbourne, Berkshire, within a guitar’s throw of his indoor swimming pool, I’m hearing about the day ROBERT PLANT dropped by.

“I was mending my son’s car in the garage when a chap in a checked shirt apologised for intruding,” Gore recalls. “He said, ‘Did you know that a group used to be here?’ I said, ‘You mean LED ZEPPELIN? Why, are you a fan?’ ‘No,’ he said, ‘I was the singer.’”

Gore, 56, who moved into his picturesque boathouse home with his wife, Val, 54, and two sons, Spencer and Ryan, in 1984, has more than 20 years’ worth of similar anecdotes. Between 1967 and 1973, the riverside house was owned by none other than JIMMY PAGE, the guitarist and founder of Led Zeppelin.

Plant, the band’s front man, called by in 2003 to revisit the birthplace of the band: it was here that Page had decided to split from the Yardbirds, and where he, Plant, John Bonham and John Paul Jones would meet and prepare for gigs. Gore invited Plant in to relive some memories. “He told me they used to get to the top floor by a rickety old ladder,” he says. “The band practised up there, but they always stopped by 10 o’clock.’

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