They marked the moment when vast numbers of people, for the very first time, experienced rock ‘n’ roll as a reckless orgy of the self. This weekend, “Becoming Led Zeppelin,” the first official ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Swang Song Records logo surrounded by Bad Company, Robert Plant, Maggie Bell and Jimmy Page. Few labels have woven as vivid a ...
We’re reposting this list from earlier in the year in honor of Led Zeppelin joining TikTok. Check out the band’s 50 best songs below, and visit their new TikTok channel here. Led Zeppelin — to ...
Was Led Zeppelin about to commit a career-ending mistake with its fourth album? Fifty years and over 30 million LP sales later, the idea seems laughable. Yet that’s what Atlantic Records warned the ...
At the height of Led Zeppelin’s fame in 1975, Robert Plant called himself a “golden god,” a phrase he delivered with his tongue firmly in cheek. In the nearly 50 years since he uttered those words, ...
Nearly six decades on from its January 1969 release, Led Zeppelin I still reverberates through musical history with undiminished force. The British band’s debut record is uniquely powerful in its ...
The first Led Zeppelin album, featuring its Hindenburg explosion artwork, is iconic. The band truly exploded onto the scene with the album, and were one of the heaviest groups making music. At the ...
The world loves a good “rise of” story — one that captures the first months of a now-superstar artist’s meteoric rise, whether it’s Elvis or the Beatles or Madonna or Prince or Nirvana (that sound you ...
The enmity between Led Zeppelin and the music press was well known by the time their fourth album arrived in November 1971. This was, after all, the band that had been viciously panned on both sides ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Led Zeppelin’s Grammy history is surprisingly thin, but their new ...
When I was in sixth and seventh grades, a group of us studied the works of Led Zeppelin as though they were holy texts. We debated whether or not the album “Led Zeppelin IV” was properly titled “Led ...
When Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused (1993) hit theaters, it didn’t take much to get the reference to the classic Led Zeppelin song. After all, the film took place at a high school in 1976, and ...