Hotels and rock stars are natural enemies, admittedly, for reasons largely unknown. Seemingly, since the dawn of rock and roll hedonism, rock stars have taken it upon themselves to besiege and destroy hotel rooms across the land, and Led Zeppelin were instrumental in starting that trend towards the tail-end of the 1960s, much to the […]
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For as gigantic as Led Zeppelin became, it’s insane to think that Jimmy Page was being looked at as crazy when he first put the band together. This was bound to be the rock and roll group that would put everyone else to shame, and yet when he asked if Keith Moon would join him, […]
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By the time the 1980s ended, Robert Plant couldn’t have been farther away from Led Zeppelin if he had tried. He was proud of the work he had made with his bandmates throughout the 1970s, but when John Bonham passed away, Plant didn’t want to live his life through that one persona until the end […]
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While times have changed significantly over the last 70 years, one could certainly argue that the British music scene is in more dire need of being shaken up than it ever has been during that period. This is no criticism of the quality of music being released by British acts, which is as promising as […]
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Any rock star would have killed to be in the position that Robert Plant was in when Led Zeppelin hit the big time. Jimmy Page may have been the ringleader of the band in many respects, but when listening to what Plant could do with his voice, there was no one else who even came […]
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When they emerged in 1969, they were like nothing the world had ever heard before, but at the same time, they borrowed so much from bygone blues musicians that on more than one occasion, they ended up in court on plagiarism charges. The same duality applies to their lore when you play it forward into […]
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There was never any reference point for where someone like Robert Plant came from when he first started singing for Led Zeppelin. Everyone had tried their hand at delivering the most bluesy songs that they could ever muster when they first got started in the British hard rock scene, but Plant seemed to have a […]
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When the 1960s gave way to the 1970s, rock and roll largely carried on its course. The music grew heavier and new subcultures emerged, but it was more evolution than revolution. The shift from the 1970s to the 1980s, however, was a different story. Suddenly, many rock stars were experimenting with questionable new directions, and […]
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Released in January 1969, Led Zeppelin‘s eponymous first album featured long, exploratory tracks like ‘Dazed and Confused’ and was rooted heavily in electrified Chicago blues, with one eye still cast towards late-1960s psychedelia. For those recordings, Page even wielded a psychedelically painted Fender Telecaster, a fitting emblem of a band still emerging from the technicolour […]
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He is undoubtedly one of the most celebrated rock singers of all time, but what most people forget is that Robert Plant has long since been considered the ultimate blueprint for rock. Archetypal is a word used too often, but Plant is undoubtedly the archetypal rock star. Strutting across stages with his mic in hand, […]
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