It doesn’t matter what kind of rock music you’re listening to; the influence of guitarists like Jimmy Page is there to be heard. I don’t necessarily think that there’s an obligation for new bands to know everything about the pioneers of certain genres. More and more young people struggle to name songs by the likes […]
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Say what you like about Led Zeppelin, but they were never boring. From Satan worship and partying with pornstars to allegedly getting frisky with fish, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham and John Paul Jones were never far from some form of debauchery, mythologised or otherwise. They’ve come to encapsulate the glamour and excess of […]
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Say what you like about Led Zeppelin, but they were never boring. From Satan worship and partying with pornstars to allegedly getting frisky with fish, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham and John Paul Jones were never far from some form of debauchery, mythologised or otherwise. They’ve come to encapsulate the glamour and excess of […]
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Imagine getting your perfect job, the one you dreamed of as a kid, only to find out that it, just like everything else, had a bitter aftertaste sometimes. That is what happened to Jimmy Page when he took his guitar skills to the studio as part of his first job in music. Few guitarists boast […]
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Once you have fronted one of the greatest hard rock outfits to ever grace the airwaves, performing in different cities across the globe night after night and taking your own private plane to get from one place to another, where do you go from there? Well, in the case of Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant, you […]
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Heavy rock and roll isn’t the realm of music best known for virtuosic singers. As Bob Dylan, Johnny Rotten and Liam Gallagher taught us, technical skill isn’t essential. However, lyrical content, passion and originality are the key elements to success. Just before we leave technical skill to Celine Dion and Mariah Carey, one can’t help […]
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There was a certain change in the air that occurred when Robert Plant took to the stage with Led Zeppelin. There had been blues rock before, but a lot of people had a hard time describing what they were seeing, which probably explains why the critics were so cruel to them when they first began. […]
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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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