LONDON: Truth be told, it will take a pretty strong fan of Jimmy Page and his erstwhile band Led Zeppelin to buy the celebrated rock guitarist’s new book.

Weighing in at just shy of three kg (more than six and a half pounds) and containing some 650 photographs, “Jimmy Page” is appropriately heavy for the man who popularised the hard-rock guitar riff.

It is also quite costly at a recommended 40 pounds in Britain and $60 in the United States.

But fans are fans and when a far-pricier limited-edition was published a few years ago, it sold out quickly.

It is clear, in an interview with Reuters, that Page is proud of the new, updated book, which begins with a picture of him singing sweetly as a choirboy and ends with him greyed and beaming, clutching his favorite guitar.

“It’s an awful term, but it’s a journey,” said Page, now 70. “You see the changes in fashion, you see the changes in guitars, you see the changes in attitude. You see this man growing and gaining years as he goes on this journey.”