It's True!

Jimmy Page once asked Terry Reid to be the singer for his New Yardbirds project. Reid, thinking his solo career was about to take off, declined and suggested Robert Plant, and the combination became Led Zeppelin. Reid was also approached by the folks in Deep Purple, who needed a new lead singer after Rod Evans left the group. Again, Reid declined, and Ian Gillan joined. Reid did make the first-rate solo album “River” and several other fine recordings, but he never became the iconic hard rock singer that would've landed him in the record books.