Jimmy Page was a guitarist in the Yardbirds and one of the busiest session musicians in London in the mid-‘60s when he first proposed forming a group of his own with the Who’s rhythm section—and ...
Led Zeppelin’s first album was recorded in just 36 hours, with most tracks recorded live with very little overdubbing, which perfect the sound. It spent 71 weeks in the UK after its release on January ...
Which was the better Led Zeppelin album - IV or Physical Graffiti? That's the battle this week in Loudwire Nights' Chuck's Fight Club. Led Zeppelin are one of the truly iconic bands in hard rock ...
Robert Plant described the process of releasing Led Zeppelin’s fourth album as a “kind of Spinal Tap thing” and admitted he still isn’t sure what to call it. The 1971 LP has come to be known as Led ...
A music industry mystery has been solved after more than half a century, when a researcher stumbled across the original photo pictured on the cover of Led Zeppelin's most successful album. Led ...
Led Zeppelin tried just about every visual trick to make their album covers pop, from die cutting and revisionist history to sci-fi-inspired surrealism and mysterious symbols and objects. One of them ...
For Led Zeppelin fans it is an instantly recognisable image: that of a grey-bearded figure stooping, his leathery hands grasping the pole supporting a bundle of hazel on his back. But the origin of ...
Upon its release as a double-disc set in late 1997, “BBC Sessions” satisfied what almost every Led Zeppelin fan had been craving: documented proof of the band’s volcanic intensity and intuition as a ...
A signed Led Zeppelin album sleeve without a record inside shocked auctioneers when it sold for £15,000. The 1973 copy of Houses of the Holy was recognised as a tempting item but it was only expected ...