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Terry Reid headshot

"Ritchie Blackmore never missed a note, and that ain't easy when you're about to be beheaded": An introduction to Terry Reid, the man who could have fronted Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple

By Geoff Barton published

Unfairly framed as rock’s ultimate nearly man, Terry Reid chose to take his own path, and he's still going strong

Robert Plant backstage with Heart in 1982

"This is a teaching album": Why I ❤️ Led Zeppelin IV, by Heart's Ann Wilson

By Jaan Uhelszki published

Heart's singer Ann Wilson remembers learning along with Led Zeppelin

Robert Plant aboard a Le Frecce train

Robert Plant is the star of a new promotional film extolling the virtues of luxury high-speed Italian train travel

By Fraser Lewry published

See Robert Plant as you've never seen him before, travelling through Italy aboard a luxury Frecciarossa 1000 train

Alex and Eddie Van Halen on the Jimmy Kimmel show in 2015, and Robert Plant onstage

"You’re gonna think I’m out of my mind": Alex Van Halen is considering finishing unreleased Van Halen songs, with Robert Plant adding vocals and guitar solos generated by artificial intelligence

By Fraser Lewry published

Alex Van Halen has approached the makers of ChatGPT to explore the possibility of creating new guitar solos

Robert Plant with some of his followers holding Legalise Pot banners

"Happiness is pot-shaped!" A true story about Robert Plant, a fake drugs bust, and a trainee nurse in a mini skirt

By Fraser Lewry published

That time the future Led Zeppelin man ran into trouble with the law

Robert Plant, Al Jourgensen

“It was a case of meeting one of your idols and realising he is a total douchebag.” Ministry's Al Jourgensen on the night he worked as a “man-slave servant” for Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant, and how it screwed up his love life

By Paul Brannigan published

They say you should never meet your heroes, and after meeting Led Zeppelin's frontman, Al Jourgensen might agree

Led Zeppelin in 1968

"I was very green and it was a tentative start, but we knew we had something": The complicated birth of Led Zeppelin

By Ian Fortnam published

How the most creatively fertile era in the history of British Music produced the most important hard rock band of all time, Led Zeppelin

Robert Plant onstage

"He proceeded to take his trousers off between songs. The police got very twitchy": The chaotic night Led Zeppelin jammed with Ten Years After and the Jeff Beck Group

By Max Bell published

"My last memory was of Bonham’s hairy backside disappearing, illuminated by a spotlight"

Missioned Souls playing live

Filipino children performing Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love with uncanny precision? Step right this way

By Fraser Lewry published

Missioned Souls are from Cebu City, Philippines, and they've been busy charming the internet

Robert Plant and Jimmy Page - The New Yardbirds (to become Led Zeppelin )., Copenhagen, Sep. 7, 1968

"I stood right at the front and watched. There was hardly anyone there": Behind the scenes at Led Zeppelin's first UK show, told by the people who saw it

By Ian Ravendale published

When people turned up to a Newcastle ballroom, they expected to see The New Yardbirds. Instead, they saw the future of rock'n'roll

Robert Plant and Jimmy Page onstage in 1971

"Sixty per cent of those lyrics, Robert came in with off the cuff": Jimmy Page on the rehearsal tape that captures the early magic of Stairway to Heaven

By Fraser Lewry published

Listen to Led Zeppelin work their way through an early version of Stairway To Heaven

A montage of sections of cover art from albums that should be shorter

10 classic albums that would be better if they were shorter, and how they should be shortened

By Johnny Sharp published

Making great records greater, one edit at a time

Deep Purple's Ian Gillan and Black Sabbath

Ian Gillan says Black Sabbath were more "important" than Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin: "Without them there would have been no grunge or heavy metal"

By Liz Scarlett published

Ian Gillan on the "unholy trinity" of British rock bands, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, and why the Brummie Rock Gods were the "most important" of them all

Peter Grant being interviewed

"They're not gonna get anybody heavier than me, are they?": In 1971 Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant was asked how he dealt with bootleggers

By Fraser Lewry published

The BBC footage also shows Pink Floyd hearing one of their own bootlegs for the first time – and they're not happy

Led Zeppelin onstage in Vienna in 1973

"It's nice to be here in Vienna. You've even got some good groupies!": Previously unseen Led Zeppelin footage finds Robert Plant in a playful mood

By Fraser Lewry published

The rare footage comes from Led Zeppelin's show at the Stadhalle in Vienna, Austria, during their 1973 European tour

Led Zeppelin drinking beer

"Led Zeppelin left behind a body of music that defined the term 'progressive rock', but in the truest sense of the word": The case for Led Zeppelin, uncrowned kings of prog rock

By Mark Blake published

A blues band? A hard rock band? Think again

Malcolm Young and Led Zeppelin

“Their first couple of albums, they were a good band. After that... boring.” AC/DC's late, no-nonsense leader Malcolm Young wasn't impressed by Led Zeppelin

By Paul Brannigan published

“Most people, when they progress, they progress up their own a**es.” Malcolm Young, AC/DC, 1984

Butthole Surfers, John Paul Jones

“It was alive and exciting and subversive.” Why Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones chose to work with Texan noise-punk weirdos Butthole Surfers, and what he found the two bands had in common

By Paul Brannigan published

“I was expecting someone with mutton-chop sideburns and bellbottoms.” Butthole Surfers' Paul Leary on Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones

Jimmy Page and Chris Robinson onstage, plus a studio portrait of Conan O'Brien and his masturbating bear

That time Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes were attacked by Conan O'Brien's Masturbating Bear

By Fraser Lewry published

"You think a masturbating bear will faze me? The Led Zeppelin jet was flown by a masturbating bear!"

Jimmy Page and Steven Tyler with the Black Crowes outside the Evintim Apollo, Hammersmith, London

"I must say, they were absolutely phenomenal": Jimmy Page's review of the Black Crowes' London show is in

By Fraser Lewry published

Led Zeppelin maestro Jimmy Page has posted about last week's London show from the Black Crowes