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A composite image of Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi and Led Zeppelin

“We jammed with Zeppelin. John Bonham said, ‘Let’s play that song of yours I like.’ That was Supernaut”: Tony Iommi on the rivalry between Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin – and their lost jam session

By Classic Rock published

Did the world miss out on a Black Sabbath/Led Zeppelin supergroup?

Dread Zeppelin publicity photo

There's a new 90-minute documentary about Dread Zeppelin, the Elvis-impersonator-fronted reggae Led Zeppelin tribute act, and it's free to watch

By Fraser Lewry published

Dread Zeppelin: A Song of Hope is out now

Becoming Led Zeppelin Admat

Becoming Led Zeppelin movie finally gets a general release date

By Fraser Lewry published

After an initial run at IMAX theatres, Becoming Led Zeppelin will go on general release in the US, UK and more

Becoming Led Zeppelin Admat

"I know it will be inspirational to young people and legacy-defining for generations to come": Watch the trailer for the long-awaited movie Becoming Led Zeppelin

By Fraser Lewry published

That Led Zeppelin film everyone's been waiting for finally has a release date, but there's a catch

The Led Zeppelins - AI generated image

If you'd like to know how it's all going with artificial intelligence, you can now listen to a version of Led Zeppelin II that sounds like it was made in the 1950s

By Fraser Lewry published

And we still don't have personal jetpacks

Jimmy Page, Keith Moon and Jeff Beck in 1966 (composite shot)

"I remember Jimmy yelling at us and calling us hooligans": Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, Jeff Beck and the chaotic session that sowed the seeds for Led Zeppelin

By Johnny Black published

In a small London studio, two Yardbirds, one member of The Who and a pair of passing session maestros united to record a spontaneous instrumental track. Things would never be the same again.

Amazon albums deal poster

Amazon is offering 3-for-2 on more than 1,000 gifts this Black Friday, including 10 of my favourite rock and metal albums

By Matt Mills published

Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours and Metallica’s Black Album aren’t just generational albums – they can be bought cheap in this massive deal for Amazon US customers

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