In Through the Out Door famously featured Led Zeppelin delving into a synthesizer-influenced sound. Even as sessions for that LP were wrapping, Page was looking ahead to something different. “I ...
Led Zeppelin‘s crash landing led to a trio of often very surprising solo careers for its main songwriters and arrangers.
Jimmy Page was a guitarist in the Yardbirds and one of the busiest session musicians in London in the mid-‘60s when he first proposed forming a group of his own with the Who’s rhythm section—and ...
Led Zeppelin’s founding guitarist Jimmy Page pieced together Coda two years after the band broke up since they owed Atlantic Records one more album. His skill in the recording booth helped him get ...
On 19 August 1968, in a cramped basement room in Gerrard Street, in the heart of London’s Soho, the four members of the band that would become Led Zeppelin played together for the first time. They ...
Pioneering production and genre-blending brilliance made up Led Zeppelin's iconic debut album, released 57 years ago today.
The best Led Zeppelin studio album is one that was, quite literally, the most lived in. "With the fourth album," Page told the Quietus in 2014, "the fact that it was recorded under conditions where we ...
While song lyrics might not be the first thing that comes to mind with Led Zeppelin, lead singer Robert Plant did some fine work during his time with the band. Plant was always improving. It’s a long ...
The first Led Zeppelin album, featuring its Hindenburg explosion artwork, is iconic. The band truly exploded onto the scene with the album, and were one of the heaviest groups making music. At the ...