Squint and you can see the band-aid attached to his left pinky. But what happened? The BBC found out at last night’s Classic Rock Awards:
Arriving with his left hand discreetly lodged in his trouser pocket, the grey-haired musician at first seemed reluctant to be drawn on the subject.
Eventually, though, a bandaged pinky was revealed and the reason behind it – a tumble he had taken while walking in his garden a week ago.
“I happened to trip over a stone slab,” he revealed. “I didn’t just come down on my hand, I came down on other parts of my body as well.
“But of course, it was the hand that had a bit of an injury to it.”
Had it happened to his right hand, he added, he “might have got away with it”.
“It’s the last thing I would have wanted to happen to anybody, let alone me,” he said.
“All I can do is convey my apologies to the fans and anyone who has been inconvenienced.”
Page injury dominates rock awards [BBC]
Earlier: Jimmy Page Apologizes For Injury, Still Refuses To Disclose Which Finger He Broke
[Photo: AP]
Who is the elderly woman in the photo?
is that Bea Arthur?
I didn’t want to see Barbara Bush perform with Robert Plant and John Paul Jones anyway. . .
That’s Jimmy Page?!?! Looks more like Granny Goodness to me.
Left pinky? That’s all? He needs to get cracking!
Are we sure he wasn’t re-enacting the Dazed & Confused/climbing a mountain/Old Man with a Rainbow Sword bit?
I don’t believe any of those stories/excuses…
How annoying. And he looks like Leo McKern in Rumpole of the Bailey.