Jimmy Page on 'Coda,' Led Zep's Indian Sojourn and His Next Project

• It is, Jimmy Page declares proudly, "the mother of all Codas an absolute celebration of Led Zeppelin, all things bright and beautiful, all of the curios."

• Over his morning coffee in a New York hotel suite, Page is marking the end of his year-long reissue of Zeppelin's studio catalog, in deluxe editions with previously unreleased material, with a rare, extended look back at "the most difficult album I had to approach" Coda, a half-hour of outtakes compiled by Page and released in 1982, two years after he, singer Robert Plant and bassist John Paul Jones quietly disbanded following the death of drummer John Bonham.

• One of the most striking outtakes now in the deluxe Coda is "If It Keeps on Raining" a true, alternate reading from 1970 of "When the Levee Breaks," eventually released on Led Zeppelin IV.

• When I originally wrote the structure of "Friends" [on Led Zeppelin III], I was thinking of Indian music those string lines we allude to.

• You recently issued a four-disc set of your Seventies and Eighties film music the scores to Lucifer Rising and Death Wish II with extra material.

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