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Led Zeppelin in 1969

“You only get caught when you’re successful”: Robert Plant and Jimmy Page on the time Willie Dixon came calling for his Whole Lotta Love songwriting credit

By Niall Doherty published

It’s 40 years ago this weekend that the veteran bluesman took action against the rock icons for borrowing his song...

Ann and Nancy Wilson from Heart pictured on a rooftop and Robert Plant onstage

"He sang 'Squeeze My Lemon' and we're like, 'Oh, we must leave, we must leave the premises'": Heart's Wilson sisters once walked out of a Led Zeppelin show because Robert Plant was too suggestive

By Fraser Lewry published

"We were scandalised, and we walked away"

Robert Plant, Jimmy Page

"It's journalistic complacency and claptrap." Robert Plant never liked the idea of Led Zeppelin being labelled a heavy metal band

By Paul Brannigan published

"That period had a lot of people cavorting around using their manhood as the main weapon to sell records"

Strawbs

“We’d been paying Rick Wakeman £25 a week and Yes offered him £100… We had his son Oliver with us for a while, and he left for Yes too!” Dave Cousins and the life and times of Strawbs

By Sid Smith published

Prog veteran recalls connecting with Sandy Denny, his band’s attempt to fire him, being loved by Led Zeppelin, why they’ve never had a Steven Wilson remix, the “albatross” of Part Of The Union and the unreleased, more political version

Jimmy Page studio portrait

"We just went in and just destroyed San Francisco, and that was it": Jimmy Page on Led Zeppelin's historic arrival in America

By Paul Elliott published

Jimmy Page talks absent friends, superstar fans, bad reviews and the next best thing to playing with Led Zeppelin

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"