OCTOBER 7, 1982 – Former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page was given a 12-month conditional discharge after being found guilty of possessing cocaine. Page has acknowledged heavy recreational drug use throughout the 1970s. In an interview with Guitar World magazine in 2003, he stated: “I can’t speak for the [other members of the band], but for me drugs were an integral part of the whole thing, right from the beginning, right to the end.” After the band’s 1973 North American tour, Page told Nick Kent: “Oh, everyone went over the top a few times. I know I did and, to be honest with you, I don’t really remember much of what happened.”
October 7, 1982 – Former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page was given a 12-month conditional discharge
