Time & Perspective Quote by Jimmy Page

Grief has a way of turning culture into a fast-moving PR machine, and Jimmy Page points directly at the conveyor belt. “Almost the moment he died” is the tell: admiration arrives instantly, suspiciously polished, as if death itself is the credential that finally makes genius legible to the mainstream. The detail that it was Playboy is doing extra work. It’s not just a magazine; it’s a mass-market tastemaker that could launder rock mythology into something glossy, collectible, and safe for the coffee table. Page isn’t sneering at the praise so much as exposing the timing and the packaging.

Then he pivots, sharp and unyielding: “which he was - there’s no doubt about it.” That dash functions like a guitarist’s muting hand, cutting off any argument. The tension is the point: Page can resent the opportunistic coronation while still insisting the coronation is accurate. He’s protecting the musician from the story machine that only knows how to celebrate by shrinking someone into a “greatest ever” list.

The repetition - “There’s never been anybody since... one of the greatest... that ever lived” - isn’t redundancy; it’s insistence, the language of someone who watched a peer set the bar and never saw it raised. In rock history, the dead are often mythologized into saints. Page’s subtext is tougher: yes, the myth is real, but it shouldn’t take a funeral and a glossy ranking to make people hear what was already there.