Having to stand on stage with the beady eyes of the world watching is nerve-shredding enough. Doing it while delivering one of the greatest cover versions of all time might mean you’re made of steel. Just look at Ann Wilson. In fairness, that’s a motto which the sisters of Heart have lived by all of […]
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After the untimely death of drummer John Bonham in 1980, at just 32 years old, the remaining members of Led Zeppelin – vocalist Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones – unanimously agreed to disband. “We wish it to be known that the loss of our dear friend,” they said in a […]
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It would be easy to slap a big, fat rock on John Bonham’s influences. The fact is, rock as Led Zeppelin unleashed to the world didn’t exist before their eponymous debut in 1969. From the moment the collapsing Hindenburg airship exploded toward the end of the counterculture, classic rock was almost afforded its eternal template, […]
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