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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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The first-ever authorised Led Zeppelin documentary film is out in cinemas this weekend featuring Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones as talking heads. Titled Becoming Led Zeppelin ...
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 ...
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 ...
In a coldly lit Paris TV studio in 1969, Led ... Zeppelin’s story from its very beginning. Chris Blackwell, founder of Island records, heard the then-unnamed quartet recording their debut album ...
They didn’t do TV. They didn’t do promo. For the Led Zeppelin II album, I counted seven or eight interviews – and this was the biggest band in the world! “Just like [the 1920s folk and ...