{"id":4334,"date":"2014-05-12T07:39:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T07:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/05\/12\/jimmy-page-receives-honorary-doctorate-from-berklee-college-of-music\/"},"modified":"2014-05-12T07:39:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T07:39:18","slug":"jimmy-page-receives-honorary-doctorate-from-berklee-college-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/05\/12\/jimmy-page-receives-honorary-doctorate-from-berklee-college-of-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Page Receives Honorary Doctorate From Berklee College of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9f\/Jimmy_Page_at_the_Echo_music_award_2013.jpg\/220px-Jimmy_Page_at_the_Echo_music_award_2013.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"213\" height=\"320\" \/><br \/>This weekend was a grand one for honorary doctorates. On Friday, the evening before Sean &#8220;Puff Daddy&#8221; Combs delivered the commencement address and received an honorary degree in humanities from his alma mater Howard University, Led Zeppelin&#8217;s Jimmy Page received a similar honor at Boston&#8217;s Berklee College of Music.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What a spirit there is here,&#8221; the guitar legend said in his brief remarks after receiving the doctoral degree in music at the 7,000 seat Agganis Arena at Boston University. &#8220;Music has so much power across so many avenues. To be in a position to do the thing you\u2019re best at, which is making music, and bringing joy and pleasure to other people, it can\u2019t be much better than that. I wish to pass that on to all of you. Congratulations with your degrees and lots of success in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Berklee also presented honorary doctorates this year to R&amp;B songwriter Valerie Simpson, jazz pianist Geru Allen and American Music Program youth jazz orchestra founder Thara Memory. Past honorees have included Willie Nelson, Steven Tyler and Annie Lennox.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It&#8217;s truly an honour to be the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate at Berklee as the music of America has been a primary driving force in my early years and pivotal to my musical development,&#8221; Page said in an e-mail to Rolling Stone when the degree was announced in March.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Rolling Stone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend was a grand one for honorary doctorates. On Friday, the evening before Sean&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}