No one can spend as much time in the limelight as Robert Plant has without picking up a few soulmates along the way. The music business isn’t exactly the business to make friends in, but there are always going to be those few people who will be able to stick by you no matter what, […]
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It might seem like the world spent most of its time allowing rock stars to do whatever they so chose. But that’s not quite true. In the glory days of rock excess, Led Zeppelin could never catch a break with critics. Although the fans clamoured for what the next instalment from the band was going […]
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By the end of the 1970s, Led Zeppelin were in a state of discombobulation. Having survived the onslaught of punk and disco, the mighty Zeppelin emerged intact as rock and roll’s truest survivors. Nothing could bring them down: not changing tastes, not harsh critical reviews, and not even car accidents or family tragedies. The only […]
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There are essentially two halves to Dusty Springfield’s career, standing either side of Dusty in Memphis. It was a gamble. Across the 1960s, Springfield had emerged as the leading female face of the British invasion by the decade’s end, but it took a while. She’d stormed the UK charts, reeling off big, string-laden pop numbers […]
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Artistic inspiration often comes from the most unlikely surroundings, and although it is easy to envision every one of Led Zeppelin’s hard rock riffs and expansive long-playing masterpieces being dragged from the endearingly dirty gutters of rock and roll, where all guitar-based abrasion surely resides, Jimmy Page and the gang often took their core inspiration […]
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The rock world had erupted and solidified like an angry volcano during the 1950s and ’60s. It had welcomed a brand new ream of artists who all seemed intent on making rebellion the forefront of their message. Many bands had come and gone, and the new decade of the 1970s seemed to offer up yet […]
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The 20th century was when classic rock was invented, when it evolved, and when it was perfected. As a result, there are a lot of great albums within the genre from this time period. Five seems like a silly number, reading it now, for the amount that the genre evolved throughout the 20th century is […]
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If there is a single night when Led Zeppelin stopped being merely successful and became unstoppable, it was January 9, 1970, inside the sacred walls of Royal Albert Hall in London. This was not just another concert. This was a declaration of dominance, delivered with volume, confidence, and an almost frightening sense of certainty. In […]
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Long before their name became synonymous with thunderous drums, towering guitars, and a sound that redefined rock music, Led Zeppelin almost came apart before it ever truly existed. What many fans never hear about is that the band’s very first song was born not from harmony, but from disagreement, frustration, and creative tension—inside a cramped […]
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Can you picture it clearly enough to feel the heat on your skin? On June 2, 1973, inside the aging concrete bowl of Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, 41,231 people packed themselves under the unforgiving California sun. They were not there to discover a band. They were there to witness a force of nature. Led […]
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