After Jimmy Page's role as a lead guitarist (beside Jeff Beck) with the Yarbirds ended, he pursued a new goal to found a new Rock 'n' Roll supergroup. Attempts with Beck on guitar and The Who members Keith Moon and John Entwistle failed . It didn't take long till Page was recommended to Robert Plant. Plant accepted the position as a lead singer and got former band mate and drummer John Bonham into the project. ​John Paul Johns inquired the vacant position - Jimmy Page accepted him as a bass player and the band was completed. 

In the 1960's, the ''Fab 4'' often were confronted with the question where the actual band name came from. Usually they said that a man with a magic carpet appeared at the window and told them, - many other daft answers followed in interviews. However the actual name has a very simple origin.

In 1960 it was Keith Richards who accidentally saw Mick Jagger on the Dartford railway station waiting for the train . Underneath his arms records of Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters were waiting to be heard. The two of them began talking and the common interest in music prompted a musical partnership for a lifetime . In March 1962 Mick and Keith read about  the Ealing Jazz Club and decided to visit the place where they would meet Brian Jones who was playing Slide for Alexis Korner's band Blues Incorporated .