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 ...
As with each Led Zeppelin, picking the single best song is nearly impossible and may just depend on your mood that day. But “Dazed And Confused” is a moody, brooding song that explodes into a giant ...
Sent from the land of the ice and snow (Heston in Middlesex), Jimmy Page's decision to break the chains of being a muzak session musician to form the eight-legged rock behemoth known to the globe as ...
Compiling such a finite list presents tough choices for anyone, as the band’s recorded output of great music during its heyday was impressively prolific by any standard and includes well over 50 gems.
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Led Zeppelin lands two spots on U.K. rock charts as Four Symbols ...
To be the kings of classic rock, you have to get people's attention. And that's exactly what the British-born rock band Led Zeppelin did. From giant buzzing guitars to ceaseless rhythms and, yes, to ...
John Paul Jones may be considered the most musically advanced member of Led Zeppelin, but he had a hard time getting his head around this lick.
The best classic rock artists worked with other bands to make magic on vinyl. For example, Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page worked on one of The Who’s early songs. Page revealed what it was like to be in the ...
Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...
Members of Led Zeppelin helped create Donovan’s “Hurdy Gurdy Man” in the studio. The tune paved the way for a lot of the band’s later work. Donovan himself argued that Jimmy Page’s contributions to ...
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 ...