After Robert Plant sang “Stairway to Heaven” at a charity event in England last October — the first time he’d done so since 2007 — the rock god said it may have been the last time he’ll ever perform ...
Led Zeppelin churned out songs at a furious pace early in their career. Even bassist John Paul Jones was impressed by their work ethic, and he cut his teeth as an in-demand session player working six ...
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page hates “Living Loving Maid (She’s Just a Woman).” The Led Zeppelin II track seamlessly flows from the excellent “Heartbreaker,” which led radio DJs to keep the needle ...
How a harrowing accident inspired Robert Plant to write the epic Led Zeppelin song, deeply rooted in the tradition of Greek mythology.
Few labels have woven as vivid a narrative in the tapestry of rock as Swan Song Records. Launched in 1974 by Led Zeppelin and their legendary manager Peter Grant, Swan Song not only amplified Zeppelin ...
However, on IV, released in 1971, Led Zeppelin were ready to explore blues more curiously and with more historical closeness. The fourth studio album closes with “When The Levee Breaks,” which begins ...
We know Led Zeppelin as paragons of the hard rock genre. But the quartet were way too talented and musically adventurous to get bogged down with one style. Zep would occasionally pull back on the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Led Zeppelin’s "Immigrant Song" re-enters the U.K.'s Official Rock ...
When Jimmy Page was first considering how best to sequence Led Zeppelin's fifth album, he was hoping to feature a beginning segment of some kind. "My original idea for the opening tracks for Houses of ...
You might know the words to Led Zeppelin's Top 20 single "D'yer Mak'er" from 1973's Houses of the Holy, but do you know how to pronounce its title? For a long time, many fans understandably pronounced ...