Jimmy Page’s chugging call-and-response riff and Robert Plant’s libido-fueled lyrics don’t necessarily cover any ground the band hadn’t tread on its debut. But it didn’t take long for Led Zeppelin ...

“Fool in the Rain” suffered from poor timing as it was the last single released in the U.S. by Led Zeppelin before the band disbanded after drummer John Bonham’s death. The single peaked at No. 21 on ...

Led Zeppelin‘s album opening songs are as varied and interesting as the LPs that followed. Together, they provide a road map as the band quickly transcended their foundational influences to redraw the ...

The post Why Physical Graffiti Reigns as Led Zeppelin’s Definitive Album appeared first on Consequence. Possible answers: Led Zeppelin II. Solid choice. Hard to pick against an LP that has “Whole ...

Robert Plant knew John Bonham's death in 1980 had brought Led Zeppelin to an end. "There's absolutely no point. No point at all," he said in his first post-Zeppelin interview in September 1982, two ...

Led Zeppelin has an impressive discography from the 12 years they made music together, but there’s one song that guitarist and lyricist Jimmy Page didn’t like to play live. Before the band retired ...

You may not have noticed it the first one- or two-thousand times you listened to the song—and we wouldn’t blame you (Jimmy Page’s acoustic is stirring and Robert Plant’s vocals are electrifying), but ...

A choirmaster, organist and expert in many archaic music styles, John Paul Jones also happened to play bass guitar in Led Zeppelin, the biggest heavy rock band there has ever been or ever will be.

There are lots of mystical and moving metaphors to be found in Led Zeppelin songs, but when Robert Plant sang about coming from the land of ice and snow in "Immigrant Song," he meant it literally.