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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

Becoming Led Zeppelin logo

"We have spent years designing this film to be experienced on the big screen with the best possible sound": That long-awaited Led Zeppelin documentary is finally coming to a cinema near you

By Fraser Lewry published

Becoming Led Zeppelin premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2021: Now it's finally found a distributor

Robert Plant onstage in 1970, and the KBOO logo

Robert Plant once pledged money to a radio station that promised never to play Stairway To Heaven ever again

By Fraser Lewry published

Robert Plant: He's not like other rock stars

Led Zeppelin in 1969, and the Wheaton Community Center

"I've always been a believer. I never felt it was a mass hallucination": The mystery of the Led Zeppelin show that may never have taken place

By Fraser Lewry published

On January 20, 1969, Led Zeppelin played one of their first US shows, at a community centre in smalltown Maryland. Or did they?

Page, Plant, Albini

“I had a strong connection with Steve. He was so passionate and knowledgable, really dedicated to the cause.” Jimmy Page pays his respects to Steve Albini, saluting his work on the Walking Into Clarksdale album

By Paul Brannigan published

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page salutes the late Steve Albini, who died last week

A montage of Freddie Mercury, Kurt Cobain, David Bowie and Jim Morrison

The first and last lyrics sung on record by 20 legendary bands

By Dave Everley published

From The Beatles and Bowie to Freddie Mercury and Kurt Cobain and, these are the first and last lines sung on record by rock’s biggest bands

Various musicians influenced by Jimi Hendrix

"There were guitar players weeping. They had to mop the floor up": How Jimi Hendrix invented everything we love

By Johnny Black published

When Jimi Hendrix arrived in London he blew the minds of the British rock elite. Soon they would follow his lead and develop and explosive new form of electric blues