After over 50 years, it feels like we’re still just scratching the surface of what Led Zeppelin did throughout the 1970s. There are certain songs that are more straightforward than others, but what kind of divine musical god gave these four musicians the power to write something as epic as ‘Kashmir’ or turn in as […]
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Jack White was always frustrated with the stigma that was attached to Detroit, as he felt it made people view his music in a way that undermined the actual sound of it. His issue was with the idea of authenticity and how music is left to one side if an artist doesn’t come across as […]
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Few artists in history have had as much praise heaped upon them as Jimmy Page. The curly-haired Led Zeppelin occultist has been lauded by the likes of Ritchie Blackmore, who crowned him “way ahead of most guitar players”, and he very rarely lauds anyone, Alex Lifeson, who said he loved “everything he represented”, and even […]
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There’s a certain sense of immediacy whenever Jimmy Page went into the studio to make a Led Zeppelin record. The band had all the time in the world to make the record that they wanted, but when listening to the way that they interacted with each other, each riff seemed to grab you by the […]
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How do you ever begin to define a guitarist as prolific as Jimmy Page? His first guitar was a small, run-down acoustic number, not the kind of thing you can learn to be a legend on, but the sort of instrument that gives you a feel for things and allows kids to imagine themselves becoming […]
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As the voice of Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant revolutionised rock music throughout the late 1960s and ’70s. Matching the ridiculously high standards of Jimmy Page’s guitar virtuosity, John Bonham’s explosive percussion, and John Paul Jones’ rhythmic bass lines was no easy feat, but Plant prospered with pinpoint pitch and due projection. One can understand why […]
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When Jimmy Page first left The Yardbirds, he wasn’t looking to become just another blues-rock guitar player. Led Zeppelin had to be their own unique entity when they first began, and even if they had a few of the blues tropes on their first records, Page had the idea for the band to become a […]
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“I consider Jimmy Page freakier than Jimi Hendrix,” Dave Grohl once wrote. The occult-inclined guitarist would certainly take that as a compliment. “Hendrix was a genius on fire, whereas Page was a genius possessed,” the Foo Fighters frontman continued. “Zeppelin concerts and albums were like exorcisms for them. People had their asses blown out by […]
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There are plenty of rock stories that feel like fiction, but there are a certain group of artists who seem to make their own legends. Led Zeppelin are a band riddled with the kind of rock and roll stories that would make Spinal Tap blush. In fact, in many ways, the band are usually the […]
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Can you imagine what it must have been like to go to the record store in 1971, walk up to the counter, plunk money down, and walk home with your own brand-new copy of Led Zeppelin’s 1971 record Led Zeppelin IV? What a time to be alive! Some albums are like greatest hits records and […]
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