If you close your eyes and think of your favorite Led Zeppelin song, chances are some big, rocking, powerful chords are involved. You might even have a memory when, upon playing the band’s music, you ...
After Robert Plant sang “Stairway to Heaven” at a charity event in England last October — the first time he’d done so since 2007 — the rock god said it may have been the last time he’ll ever perform ...
Compiling such a finite list presents tough choices for anyone, as the band’s recorded output of great music during its heyday was impressively prolific by any standard and includes well over 50 gems.
You jump in the car. You just want to hit the open road. Music can take on a different role in this setting. You may have a co-pilot, or you may be solo. Either way, it can be liberating to fly down ...
Led Zeppelin made the most of their relatively brief time together. They made eight studio albums between 1969 and 1979, added a 1976 movie soundtrack, and released a posthumous record in 1982.
Led Zeppelin rose as perhaps the world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their mix of blues, psychedelic rock, and folk gave the world one of its first great heavy bands ...
On Dec. 4, 1980, Led Zeppelin called it quits. Less than three months earlier, the band's drummer, John Bonham, was found dead at age 32 after a night of heavy drinking. The remaining members, ...
Led Zeppelin was rarely predictable, from extended drum solos ("Moby Dick") to multiple epics that stretch past 10 minutes ("Stairway to Heaven," "Achilles Last Stand") and mid-song psychedelic ...
At the height of Led Zeppelin’s fame in 1975, Robert Plant called himself a “golden god,” a phrase he delivered with his tongue firmly in cheek. In the nearly 50 years since he uttered those words, ...
However, on IV, released in 1971, Led Zeppelin were ready to explore blues more curiously and with more historical closeness. The fourth studio album closes with “When The Levee Breaks,” which begins ...