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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

Robert Plant onstage at Glastonbury 2022

Robert Plant is reportedly working on a new version of a Led Zeppelin classic for a "top-secret project"

By Fraser Lewry published

Mystery surrounds the song being worked on at the session in Wolverhampton

Led Zeppelin onstage in Richfield, Ohio, in 1975

In what's turning out to be a bumper year for Led Zeppelin fans, more unseen live footage has emerged

By Fraser Lewry published

The previously unseen film, shot in Ohio in 1975, was discovered in the archives of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Jimmy Page onstage in Chicago

"Jimmy's very lucky to be even playing tonight": Watch an ailing Jimmy Page lead Led Zeppelin through a truncated show as unseen live footage emerges

By Fraser Lewry published

Rare live footage from Chicago in 1977 finds Led Zeppelin frustrating fans with a six-song set

Led Zeppelin onstage at The Forum, Montreal

Nearly an hour of previously unseen Led Zeppelin footage from 1975 has been posted online

By Fraser Lewry published

The Led Zeppelin footage was shot at the Montreal Forum in Canada on February 6 1975

Led Zeppelin IV cover art

"This has to be the album against which every rock album that followed should be measured": Led Zeppelin attain peak Led Zeppelin status on Led Zeppelin IV

By Classic Rock Magazine published

Of all their records, Led Zeppelin’s fourth album, released in late 1971, remains their most admired work

John Bonham onstage in Los Angeles, 1973

Moby Dick began life as a modest instrumental showcase for John Bonham: Played live, it took on an epic, often drug-fuelled life of its own

By Mick Wall published

The epic story of Led Zeppelin's ever-expanding instrumental tour-de-force, Moby Dick

Danny Carey of Tool playing drums in 2016

“I bought it with lawnmowing money!” Tool’s Danny Carey reflects on the first album he ever paid for himself

By Matt Mills published

Tool drummer Danny Carey has named the very first album he bought with his own money – and it was funded by him doing chores around the house

Images of Heart’s Ann Wilson, Van Halen and Henry Rollins onstage

We put together the ultimate Led Zeppelin IV covers album

By Paul Travers published

Led Zeppelin IV reimagined by Van Halen, Heart, A Perfect Circle and more