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Led Zeppelin: Pre-Flyte

Dave Thompson, Goldmine, July 2007

THE YARDBIRDS were no more. After five years, four guitarists, and more legends than you could stuff inside a shoe shop, the band had finally combusted, shattered by the rigours of touring behind an album (Little Games) that they really didn't believe in, and disillusioned by the musicians' own sheer apathy towards a follow-up.

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