pakled wrote:
...and then there was that famous episode, immortalized in the Frank Zappa song 'mud shark'... but that was the girl, not Jimmy...

That's a myth. Apparently the original story was:
They were staying in a famous Scandinavian hotel in which you can fish off your room's balcony. The manager, John Bonham (drummer), and some girl were hanging out in a room together. The manager caught a fish (a rather common, boring one, not a "mud shark"). And there was some discussion of sticking pieces of the carved up fish into the girl's privates, as a joke. A piece of cooked fish might have been inserted there a little later on, once again a rather tame joke.
The myth is a much more entertaining story, and people seem to like stories about Jimmy Page and animals. Anyway, the real story is a "you had to be there" kind of joke, and silly myths are vital to rock-stardom.