Long before he was the iconic guitarist of Led Zepellin , Jimmy Page was a session player for EMI in London.

He was in the studio when the team behind “ Goldfinger ” was cutting the iconic soundtrack. Composer John Barry and lyricists Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley chose Shirley Bassey to perform the now-beloved song. Bassey said yes simply based on the instrumental, signing up before the lyrics were completed.

Page was in the studio when Bassey came to track her vocals for the classic Bond theme, playing guitar as part of John Barry’s orchestra.

It took multiple goes to land the perfect performance, with Bassey holding a long note every time. The singer eventually took her bra off to help her take bigger breaths.

“Then came the end with that note,” Bassey said, per Jon Burlingame’s book, The Music of James Bond . “I was holding it and holding it. I was looking at John, and I was going blue in the face.…