Jimmy Page decided to quit his lucrative career as a session guitarist in favor of joining the

Jimmy Page decided to quit his lucrative career as a session guitarist in favor of joining the

Quaye recalls how a friend of his, singer-songwriter Billy Nicholls, was signed to Rolling Stones manager Andrew Oldham’s Immediate label. As luck would have it, Quaye had helped Nicholls engineer some demos, so when the latter eventually recorded his first album, he enlisted Quaye to play on it.

Back then, everything was union musicians, and there was a contractor in the studio, David Katz, and his brother, Charlie. Charlie would be the booker for the strings, and David would be the rhythm section,” Quaye says in an upcoming Guitar World interview.