Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. If there’s a music chart somewhere in the world dedicated to specifically rock and roll, there’s a good chance that Led Zeppelin ...
They’re called Led Zeppelin.’ It was another Sgt. Pepper moment. When we heard the album we were speechless!” Even the cover was unlike anything previously. Depicting the Hindenburg disaster of May ...
How did four masters of their craft come together to form arguably the greatest hard-rock band of all time? That’s the focus of the new documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin. As the title indicates, the ...
But if The Stones were the bluesy side, Jimmy Page was more into raw chaos. He had played his fair share of blues and even had multiple covers from bluesmen under his belt in Led Zeppelin, but he had ...
In its way, the rise of Led Zeppelin was just as inexorable as the above-mentioned artists’: They formed in August of 1968 and less than 18 months later, their second album had replaced the ...
If Led Zeppelin started with a question, that question might've been: “What if the blues was really, really loud?” And you’d think that might have occurred to someone before. But not like this.
The last laugh would be Page’s as they laid down their classic first album in a mere 36 hours (spread out over a few weeks in the fall of 1968). And then followed up less than a year later with the ...
In a coldly lit Paris TV studio in 1969, Led Zeppelin blast through Communication ... it all began (a posthumous and pretty decent album, Coda, was released in 1982). There would be one final ...
READ MORE: Led Zeppelin: “We couldn’t do reunion unless the singer was there. Quite clearly we’re there, but he’s not…” To construe as a bad omen that none the three surviving members who were ...
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Townshend never liked this even though he told the Toronto Sun that The Who “sort of invented heavy metal with [our first live album] Live at Leeds (1970). We were copied by so many bands, principally ...
Featuring Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham. Written by Bernard MacMahon and Allison McGourty. Directed by Bernard MacMahon. 121 minutes. Opens Friday on Toronto-area ...