If you want to know how Led Zeppelin took off so quickly in America, listen to recordings of their early shows. The Zep had a way of overwhelming fans at those concerts. Everyone from Aerosmith’s ...
Armed with years of experience as a session bassist and arranger – having worked with the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck and the Rolling Stones – John Paul Jones could do it all ...
Led Zeppelin emerged fully formed. Their self-titled debut, which turns 50 on Saturday, catalogued the sounds that would come to define the band, from stinging riff rock to epic, improv-heavy blues ...
I recently read Stephen Davis' book "LZ-'75: The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin's 1975 American Tour" (a sequel of sorts to his widely read biography "Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga"). I ...