After two hard-hitting and heavy blues-influenced albums, Led Zeppelin III confused fans and critics with several folk-inspired songs. The cover telegraphed the musical direction even before listeners ...

In early ’70, Abbey Road and Zeppelin II traded weeks at No. 1 until Zep’s album took over for all of February. “Whole Lotta Love,” the track that fueled the band’s searing live performances, ...

The Memphis Flyer is Memphis’ alternative newsweekly, serving the metro Memphis area of nearly a million residents. The Flyer was started in 1989 by Contemporary Media, Inc., the locally owned ...

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 ...

For U.S. males who grew up in the “classic rock” era of radio, many of us went through a Led Zeppelin phase. Maybe it lasted a year or two during high school, pounding out Bonzo’s drum parts with ...

Led Zeppelin albums are unlike anything else you'll ever hear. It is beyond rare to be spoiled by this degree of general consistency in music. Robert Plant on vocals. Jimmy Page on guitar. John Paul ...

Led Zeppelin were such a mercurial force at times, that once when really frustrated, they wrote one of their signature songs ...

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 ...