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Led Zeppelin Are Not Prefabricated
Interview by Keith Altham, Top Pops, 13 September 1969
WHEN is a hit single unnecessary? Apparently when it is a group like Led Zeppelin who have never released a single but have reached super ...
Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 11 December 1982
THAT THERE is no appreciable difference between 'We're Gonna Groove' from 1969 and 'Wearing And Tearing' from 1978 – the opening and closing tracks in ...
Audio interviews
Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page (1977)
Interview by Steven Rosen, Rock's Backpages audio, April 1977
Jimmy Page on recording techniques, and the formation of Led Zeppelin, with Steven Rosen (1977)
File format: MP3 File size: 1.2 mb<br> Interview length: 1 minute 49 seconds Sound quality: ***
Interview by Frank Tortorici, Rock's Backpages audio, 1998
The ex-Zep duo talk about the more straightforward direction of their new Walking Into Clarksdale album; and about working with Steve Albini, meeting Jeff Buckley and their love of Joni Mitchell.
File format: mp3; file size: 12.9mb, interview length: 13' 25" sound quality: ***
Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages audio, 2003
On life after Zep: travel, the accolades of fame, Abba, Graham Greene, Wolverhampton Wanderers, and remembering John Bonham
File format: mp3; file size: 47.8mb, total interview length: 49' 45" sound quality: ****
Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant (2003)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 15 April 2003
Percy himself on Led Zep's annus mirabilis 1970 - from conquering America and playing the Royal Albert Hall, to "getting it together in the country" at Bron-Y-Aur, and the gestation of Led Zep, then fast forward to 1979, and family tragedy, recording In Through the Out Door, and playing Knebworth
File format: mp3; file size: 68.3mb, interview length: 1h11'08", sound quality: ****
Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones (2003)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 16 April 2003
Led Zep's bass player takes us back to the riotous days of 1970, and the joys of playing with Bonzo, the folk and R&B influences, and forward to 1979, and Knebworth and In Through The Out Door
File format: mp3; file size: 67.3meg, interview length: 1h 10' 08", sound quality: ***
Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page (2003)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 17 April 2003
Jimmy Page on going through the archives to assemble the monumental Led Zeppelin DVD, and on the early days of the band, on the road and in the studio, through to Knebworth in 1979
File format: mp3; file size: 47.4meg, interview length: 49' 22", sound quality: ***
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 18 September 2003
A somewhat wind-blown interview: on digging back into his pre-Zep archives for Sixty Six to Timbuktu; discovering his voice as a young singer; life and career post-Zeppelin.
File format: mp3; file size: 67mb, interview length: 1h 9' 44" sound quality: **
Richard Cole on Led Zeppelin (2005)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 19 November 2005
The legendary Zep tour manager remembers meeting the band, the first US tour, the curious friendship between Bonham and Plant, all things Bron-Y-Aur, life on the road, making Led Zeppelin IV, and Girls Girls Girls!
File format: mp3; file size: 64.3mb; Interview length: 1h 10' 15"; sound quality: ***
Nick Kent on Led Zeppelin (2011)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 14 May 2011
Legendary NME journalist Nick Kent remembers his days in the orbit of Led Zeppelin: the many highs, and quite a few lows; Peter Grant; Zep v journalists; the sleaze and the gangsters.
File format: mp3; file size: 132.8mb, interview length: 2h 25' 03" sound quality: ****
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The Yardbirds: Only Jimmy Left To Form The New Yardbirds
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 12 October 1968
WHATEVER HAPPENED to the Yardbirds? One of the great mysteries of our time, ranking with the Devil's footprints, the Marie Celeste and the Five Penny ...
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, December 1968
JIMMY PAGE, the last member to join the Yardbirds, is now the group leader and at this writing was auditioning two new musicians. The old ...
Profile and Interview by Michael Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 21 December 1968
JIMMY PAGE, a former member of the Yardbirds, the group that spawned the careers of two other great musicians, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, has ...
Country Joe & the Fish, Led Zeppelin: Fillmore West, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 11 January 1969
Impressive New Rock Group ...
Albums from Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison and more
Review by John Mendelssohn, UCLA Daily Bruin, 26 February 1969
BROTHERHOOD, AN RCA group composed of three former Paul Revere underlings and a gutless organist named Ron Collins, have taken a timid, tiny step past ...
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin (Atlantic)
Review by Felix Dennis, Oz, March 1969
VERY OCCASIONALLY a long-playing record is released that defies immediate classification or description, simply because it's so obviously a turning point in rock music that ...
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin (Atlantic SD8216)
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 2 March 1969
Zeppelin: Fresh Sound ...
Review by John Mendelssohn, Rolling Stone, 15 March 1969
THE POPULAR FORMULA in England in this, the aftermath era of such successful British bluesmen as Cream and John Mayall, seems to be: add to ...
Why Led Zeppelin Took Off in America and not Britain
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 22 March 1969
A REACTIONARY anti-love movement in Britain is the disturbing development noted by guitarist Jimmy Page on his return from a long spell in America with ...
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin (Atlantic)
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 29 March 1969
Jimmy Page triumphs! Led Zeppelin is a gas ...
Led Zeppelin: Progressive Pop Supergroup Flies High
Profile and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Bradford Telegraph & Argus, 1 April 1969
THE IDEA of individual musicians getting together to form a "supergroup" was started with the highly successful Cream, who have now disbanded, but four more ...
Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 11 April 1969
IT'S NOT hard to suss that Led Zeppelin are well on the way to becoming a 'Supergroup', in the best tradition. ...
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin (Atlantic) *****
Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 12 April 1969
'Good Times Bad Times'; 'Babe I'm Gonna Leave You'; 'You Shook Me'; 'Dazed And Confused'; 'You're Time Is Gonna Come'; 'Black Mountainside'; 'Communication Breakdown'; 'I ...
Led Zeppelin, Brian Auger & the Trinity: Fillmore West, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 25 April 1969
Overblown Zeppelin Takes Off ...
Led Zeppelin, Brian Auger's Trinity, Elvin Bishop: Rose Palace, Pasadena CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 1969
Rock Show Staged at Pasadena Rose Palace ...
Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, 9 May 1969
A VERY WELL respected record producer recently informed me that Led Zepplin were the ONLY band that we're going to elevate themselves to the ranks ...
Led Zeppelin, Blodwyn Pig, the Liverpool Scene: Town Hall, Birmingham
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 21 June 1969
ZEPPELIN FLY HIGH ...
How They Got Led Zeppelin Off The Ground...
Interview by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 5 July 1969
OUT IN THE wilds of Willesden, a not-so-salubrious part of North London, Britain's heaviest band are cutting tracks for their second album before they return ...
Led Zeppelin, John Mayall, The Nice et al: Bath Festival, Shepton Mallet, Somerset
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 5 July 1969
A ZEPPELIN attacked the City of Bath on Saturday, and gassed 120,000. Airship Commander Jimmy Page kept the most fearsome dirigible in progressive blues aloft ...
Live Review by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 12 July 1969
ALL THE HAPPENINGS REVIEWED... ...
Newport Jazz Festival 1969: New Records & Not All That Jazz
Live Review by Ian Dove, Billboard, 19 July 1969
NEWPORT, R.I. — On paper at least the experiment of adding rock music to the Newport Jazz Festival 1969 came from the purest of motives. ...
Led Zeppelin And How They Made 37,000 Dollars In One Night
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 13 September 1969
LED ZEPPELIN and the adjective "heavy" are practically synonymous. They were made for each other, and it's difficult to think of one without immediately associating ...
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 18 October 1969
Led Zeppelin rock Lyceum ...
Led Zeppelin: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 October 1969
THERE IS a sustained excitement about a Led Zeppelin performance I do not recall in any other group — apart from the Who. ...
Led Zeppelin, Wolfgang, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Isaac Hayes: Winterland, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 7 November 1969
Led Zeppelin Has a Rare Magic ...
Led Zeppelin, Isaac Hayes, Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Winterland, San Francisco CA
Live Review by uncredited writer, The Berkeley Barb, 14 November 1969
WINTERLAND BUMMER ...
Keith Richard on Mick, Beatles, Led, Faith, Tull, Gees
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 6 December 1969
THE NEWS that the Rolling Stones have resumed personal appearances must have gladdened the hearts of pop fans everywhere. The Stones always were the most ...
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin II (Atlantic)
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 13 December 1969
Hey, man, I take it all back! This is one fucking heavyweight of an album! OK – I'll concede that until you've listened to the ...
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin (Atlantic)
Review by Gary Lucas, Cogito, Spring 1969
IT MUST be said — Jimmy Page is the most successful ex-Yardbird of the three lead guitarists, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck being the previous ...
Comment by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 13 January 1970
Update, 2019. SOME FACTS from Wikipedia, practically half century after my negative review below."Led Zeppelin are one of the best-selling music artists in the history of audio ...
Jimmy Page: Paganini of the Seventies
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 14 February 1970
First of a great new series by Chris Welch ...
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 21 February 1970
WHEN A band achieves the Led Zeppelin's kind of success in such a short time, there are bound to be whispered accusations in the corridors ...
Interview by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 21 February 1970
JIMMY PAGE is the phoenix who has arisen from the ashes of the Yardbirds to emerge amongst the electric guitarist gods, through the meteoric success ...
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 28 February 1970
CHRIS WELCH CONCLUDES THIS EXCLUSIVE SERIES ...
Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Circus, March 1970
IN RECENT weeks, Led Zeppelin's records have sold better than both the Beatles' and the Rolling Stones', according to Billboard Magazine's charts. And the reason ...
ASK-IN with a LED ZEPPELIN a week: Bassist JOHN PAUL JONES
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 4 April 1970
Part one of an exciting New Series by RITCHIE YORKE ...
ASK-IN with a LED ZEPPELIN a week: Robert Plant
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 11 April 1970
LAST WEEK, I reported the sayings of bass player John Paul Jones. Continuing NME's four-part series on Led Zeppelin, I turned to lead singer Robert ...
ASK-IN with a LED ZEPPELIN a week: JOHN BONHAM drummer extraordinary known as BONZO
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 18 April 1970
THE THIRD member of Led Zeppelin to be interviewed in-depth in our four-part Ask-In profile of the group is drummer John "Bonzo" Bonham, surely the ...
Led Zeppelin: Sounds Like Another Platinum!
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 6 June 1970
Chris Welch flies with Led Zeppelin as they cut their third LP... ...
Happier than ever — says Zep's John "Bonzo" Bonham annoyed by rumours of a break-up...
Report and Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 27 June 1970
JOHN BONHAM is an incredibly happy person. But if there is one thing that's apt to annoy Led Zeppelin's powerhouse drummer and arch-raver, it's the ...
Sexy? It's all a bit of a giggle says Zeppelin's Robert Plant
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 4 July 1970
THERE IS no denying that Robert Plant is bestowed with the contemporary handsomeness and poise of which pop heroes are made. Subsequently, and without any ...
Led Zeppelin: Forum, Inglewood CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 7 September 1970
Led Zeppelin Plays for Forum Audience ...
Robert Plant: Down To The Roots
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 12 September 1970
ROBERT PLANT lives in an old, rambling farmhouse near Kidderminster, on the edge of the Black Country, with his wife Maureen, baby daughter Carmen, dog ...
Led Zeppelin: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 21 September 1970
ZEPPELIN BRINGS DRIVING STYLE HERE ...
U.S. News: Edwin Starr, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bobby Sherman, Led Zeppelin
Report by Ian Dove, Record Mirror, 3 October 1970
EDWIN STARR was back in New York after his 16th trip to England and with the news that 'War', a Motown mover by the Norman ...
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin III
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 10 October 1970
Zeppelin III is pure magic! Track by track review of the new album from the World's Top Group (MM Pop Poll 1970) ...
Gloomy; Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin III
Review by Vernon Gibbs, Columbia Daily Spectator, 21 October 1970
BRON-Y-AUR lies forgotten on the side of a lonely mountain in South Snowdonia, somewhere in England. From the distance, the peaks of the mountain spread ...
Led Zeppelin: Page on Zeppelin III
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 24 October 1970
Jimmy Page gives a track by track background to Zeppelin's new album. ...
Zeppelin: "Everybody's Really Pleased"
Interview by uncredited writer, Circus, December 1970
LED ZEPPELIN, the world's most criticized and most popular band, have gone and fooled their critics and fans alike. The critics, amazed the band is ...
Jimmy Page: Zep Come To The People
Interview by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 27 February 1971
"WHAT DO YOU want if you don't want Money?" was the lyrical question once put but never answered by a certain Adam Faith nee Terence ...
Interview by Rick McGrath, The Georgia Straight, August 1971
I GOT TO watch the concert from the stage – about 10 feet away from Page. It was one helluva show, culminating in 'Dazed & ...
Led Zeppelin: Community Theater, Berkeley CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 15 September 1971
Musical Joke — But Fans Love Led Zeppelin ...
Zeppelin: More Solid Than Ever
Report and Interview by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 25 September 1971
Ritchie Yorke, in Canada, attends a Led Zeppelin concert and, with Jimmy Page, previews the group's next album ...
Page's Rages — And in this Led Zeppelin blast-off it's the Press and critics who catch a cold
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 2 October 1971
Part two of RITCHIE YORK'S interview in Canada ...
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin IV (Atlantic Deluxe, 240.1012 £2.35)
Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 20 November 1971
A GUARANTEED million seller well before it's release, perhaps in theory even before it was recorded, this, the long-awaited fourth album from Led Zeppelin is ...
Led Zeppelin, Stone the Crows: Empire Pool, Wembley
Live Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 27 November 1971
Zeppelin circus roars into town ...
Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, 23 December 1971
IT MIGHT SEEM a bit incongruous to say that Led Zeppelin — a band never particularly known for its tendency to understate matters — has ...
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 29 April 1972
HOW ROBERT PLANT STAYS FRESH ...
Led Zeppelin: The Forum, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 8 July 1972
LED ZEPPELIN appeared in concert at the Los Angeles Forum on Sunday night without a support act. It was definitely for the better as far ...
Led Zeppelin: The Forum, Inglewood, California
Live Review by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, August 1972
WHAT BETTER WAY for Led Zeppelin to begin their three-and-a-half hour onslaught on the eardrums than with a crash of the drums? Not a "Hi, ...
Jimmy Page: NME's Festivals Fight Was Excellent, But Some Rock Critics Ego-trippers, Says Zep Man
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 25 November 1972
IT SEEMS THAT, despite a few "huns in the sun", that good old heavier-than-air machine Led Zeppelin is still flying high. And with their first ...
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 25 November 1972
ROCK OF AGES: Andrew Tyler meets rock recluse JIMMY PAGE, ex-Yardbird, on the completion of Led Zeppelin's fifth album. ...
Led Zeppelin: City Hall, Newcastle
Live Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 9 December 1972
ROY HOLLINGWORTH reports as Led Zeppelin open their giant British tour... ...
Led Zeppelin (part 1): A Whole Lotta Rock 'N Roll
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 23 December 1972
IT'S WAY past the midnight hour and the room at the Angel Hotel, Cardiff, is starting to look a trifle the worse for wear since ...
Led Zeppelin (part 2): Hail Hail Rock 'N Roll
Report by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 30 December 1972
Nick Kent on the Zeppelin on-stage spectacular ...
Led Zeppelin: The Zeppelin Road Test
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 24 February 1973
"ROBERT PLANT QUITS showbusiness and joins National Dairies. There's a good headline for you. Print that as a news item in your paper, O.K.?" ...
Led Zeppelin: Houses Of The Holy (Atlantic)
Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 31 March 1973
Zep make masochism worthwhile ...
Jimmy Page, the Mild Barbarian
Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 21 April 1973
JIMMY PAGE'S slightly timid, mild-mannered exterior is of course, deceptive. There's no need to explain how Led Zeppelin come across on stage, while in between ...
Led Zeppelin: Houses Of The Holy
Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Phonograph Record, May 1973
MERCY ME, it's time to bring out the Sominex again. If it weren't for Slade and the Stooges, God knows what sort of utter decay ...
The High-Flying Led Zeppelin Tour
Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 13 May 1973
THE WAY I've been hearing it, it's already the biggest tour in rock and roll history — 33 concerts in 30 cities, a gross that ...
Zeppelin Take The States By Storm
Report by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 26 May 1973
THE LATEST Led Zeppelin tour is taking America by storm, proving yet again that this is the top rock 'n' roll band in the world. ...
Led Zeppelin: Houses Of The Holy
Review by Jonh Ingham, Let It Rock, June 1973
THE WAY I SEE IT, if you've been a Led Zep fan since day one, and think that 'Whole Lotta Love' is the cat's pyjamas, ...
Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy (Atlantic)
Review by Steven Rosen, Music World, June 1973
WHO WOULD have thought that Led Zeppelin would have followed up their rocking fourth album with a clunker like Houses Of The Holy? The fourth album ...
Report by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 16 June 1973
"I DON'T EVEN like Led Zeppelin," the girl in the black velvet jacket and hotpants said petulantly as she bummed a cigarette off an acquaintance ...
Led Zeppelin: Robert Plant — And That Below-The-Belt Surge
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 23 June 1973
A HOT AND sticky Friday afternoon in L.A. Nine stories over Sunset Boulevard, Robert Plant takes Roy Harper's Lifemask off the stereo in his hotel ...
Led Zeppelin: Steel Driven Led
Live Review by Steven Rosen, Sounds, 23 June 1973
LED ZEPPELIN recently flew into town and within a matter of hours after the Forum box office opened, had sold close to 36,000 tickets for ...
Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy
Review by Jon Tiven, Fusion, August 1973
LED ZEP'S ANNUAL album is at last upon us, and although many a fan may be befuddled by its lack of rhythmic/lyric/melodic coherence-conformity, it is ...
The "Fun City Sound" Is What's Happening in Rock
Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 5 August 1973
SO THEY'RE saying rock and roll is dead? Not this week, they aren't! What a week! While every newspaper, radio and TV station was telling ...
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 1 September 1973
JIMMY PAGE is as wary of discussing his formidable past as he is talking to the press in the first place. ...
Report by Stephen Demorest, Circus, March 1974
For months they've laid low in the recording studios preparing their sixth album. But suddenly the whole world was watching as the Christmas season brought them a ...
Jimmy Page: The Power And The Glory
Profile by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 March 1974
WHEN THEY showed Antonioni's classic film of the 'sixties, Blow Up, on TV last week, apart from evoking the real or imaginary spirit of "Swinging ...
Led Zeppelin: Swan Song Is a Beginning
Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Rolling Stone, 20 June 1974
NEW YORK — "The name Led Zeppelin means a failure," explains lead singer Robert Plant, "and Swan Song means a last gasp — so why ...
Peter Grant: The Man Who Led Zeppelin
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 22 June 1974
With a background in wrestling, it's not surprising that Peter Grant is cast as a heavy. And as manager of Led Zep, the legend has ...
Led Zeppelin: Ten years after — the Rule of Britannia
Memoir by Camille Davis Russo, unpublished, 4 July 1974
ON JULY 4TH, 1976, America will celebrate the 200th anniversary of her independence from Great Britain. Yet the bonds are unbroken, and she's never been ...
Memoir by Danny Goldberg, Rock Scene, August 1974
24 HOURS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD OF ROCK AND ROLL ...
INSIDE PAGE — Exclusive! Zeppelin star opens up to Michael Watts
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 7 September 1974
Jimmy Page is working hard on a new Zeppelin album and a film of the band shot mostly in the States. But he takes time ...
Jimmy Page: After All, It's Just a Piece of Wood With Strings...
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 12 October 1974
JIMMY PAGE talks about guitars he has owned, the development of his style and reminisces on those early Yardbird and Led Zep days ...
Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti (Swansong/Atlantic)
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 7 December 1974
Quintessential doyens of the kamikaze dizzbuster game Exclusive preview by Nick Kent ...
Led Zeppelin: The Graffiti of the Physical...
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 7 December 1974
...and the Exploration of the Metaphysical. A candid interview with Led Zep. ...
Jimmy Page: Guitars I Have Known
Interview by Nick Kent, Creem, February 1975
(As a guitarist, Jimmy Page has all the bases covered. Clapton has that soaring fluid thing down pat, Beck is the absolute Crowned Prince of ...
Report by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 1 February 1975
Chris Charlesworth reports from Chicago ...
Report by Wayne Robins, The Village Voice, 3 February 1975
"For this high school generation, attendance at a Led Zeppelin concert is as mandatory as freshman English." ...
Robert Plant: Recording's No Race For Us
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 8 February 1975
WITH WEEKS of the current Led Zeppelin tour under his belt, Robert Plant is feeling the strain. One show has been cancelled because he caught ...
Led Zeppelin: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Vernon Gibbs, The Village Voice, 17 February 1975
Led Zep Zaps Kidz? ...
Overview by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, March 1975
PICTURE YOURSELF in a seat in a stadium, with ten thousand teens going mad on all sides. Something's announced and you look up quite swiftly: ...
Led Zeppelin: Long Beach Arena, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Steven Rosen, Sounds, 19 April 1975
LED ZEPPELIN'S long awaited North American tour could have waited a while longer – about ten years or so. After reports had filed in to ...
Profile by Chris Salewicz, Let It Rock, May 1975
ABOUT SIX MONTHS AGO THE BUZZ BEGAN TO SLIP IN AGAIN FROM THE SIDELINES. It had received appropriately casual nurturing since the summer of 1973 ...
Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti (Swan Song)
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, May 1975
ROCK'S BIGGEST bruisers, Led Zeppelin, have got another album. In rock chronology this is an Event, since the defending champions of the world's biggest rock ...
Led Zeppelin: Under The Hood – A Backstage Chronicle Of The Historic 1975 Tour
Report by Danny Goldberg, Circus, May 1975
THERE WAS an historic purple aura in the clouds that hung over the audience at Madison Square that evening in February. ...
Everything you never wanted to know about Led Zeppelin ...and had no intention of asking...
Special Feature by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 17 May 1975
Hey, punk! — Didja know that... ...
Led Zeppelin: Earls Court, London
Live Review by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 24 May 1975
"SIX AND A half years is a helluva long time," said Robert Plant who was standing one side of the Earls Court stage, bathed in ...
Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti (Swan Song SS 2200)
Review by Bruce Malamut, John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, June 1975
The Zeps Runneth Over ...
Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, June 1975
ROBERT PLANT is rock 'n roll's definitive front man, a lion-maned athlete and beauty who struts and sings the wares of the world's mightiest band, ...
John Bonham: Over The Hills And Far Away…
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 21 June 1975
GOSSIP IN THE village was running riot. John up at the farm was going to buy The Chequers. The American in the bar of another ...
Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti
Review by John Tobler, ZigZag, August 1975
NOW I SHOULD make clear in this context that I'm not by nature a fan of this band in the same way that I like ...
Bands On The Run From The Taxman?
Report by Ed Jones, Melody Maker, 11 October 1975
THE PIONEER of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, defined the artist's aims as "fame, wealth, power, and the love of women." Though no one has yet found ...
Book Excerpt by Mick Gold, 'Rock on the Road' (Futura), 1976
THE IDEA OF doing a book of photo-essays about live music was sparked by a desire to examine two areas: what the job of being ...
Jimmy Page: Technological Gypsy
Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 13 March 1976
'Aleister Crowley is the great misunderstood genius of the 20th century.' ...
Jimmy Page: Past, Presence & Future
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 20 March 1976
JIMMY ENTERED a whole hour late. But Abe, who was accompanying him, was not in the least embarrassed by the delay. He muttered an obligatory ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 10 April 1976
M'lawds, ladies 'n' gennelmen, presenting the new album by... ...
Led Zeppelin: Presence (Swan Song)
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 10 April 1976
THERE IS A MAN I know, a college lecturer, for whom there is only one rock band. ...
Led Zeppelin: Presence (Swan Song)
Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 10 April 1976
AFTER THIS PLATTER had spun incessantly for an afternoon on the office phonogram I asked a non-Zep fan what he thought."Oh, it's okay I guess. ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Creem, May 1976
SHOULD RALPH NADER JOIN LED ZEPPELIN? ...
Bad Company: Led Zep Join The Company
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 29 May 1976
It was a night to remember...when Robert Plant and Jimmy Page jammed with Bad Company on stage in Los Angeles. ...
Led Zeppelin: Presence (Swan Song SS 8416)
Review by Bruce Malamut, Crawdaddy!, July 1976
MEAT-EATERS' REVENGE ...
Led Zeppelin: Interview with Jimmy Page
Interview by Mick Houghton, Sounds, 10 July 1976
IT'S OFTEN strange to recall the outstanding moments at all day music events. At Cardiff, it was a tribute to Duke Ellington being shown on ...
Zeus Of Zeppelin: An Interview with Jimmy Page
Interview by Mick Houghton, Circus, 12 October 1976
You're your own record company bosses now with Swan Song, which is a far cry from the days when you were doing sessions for Decca ...
Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains The Same (Swan Song)**
Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 16 October 1976
THREE YEARS to get a live album out? Three years??? I mean – really!! After all, John Denver did it in ten days. ...
Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains The Same
Film/DVD/TV Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 30 October 1976
THE FOUR members of Led Zeppelin received standing ovations at the premiere in New York last week of their film The Song Remains The Same. ...
Interview by David Hancock, National RockStar, 13 November 1976
OO-EE-OO. Strange magic. Plunging into the occult and locked into an Aleister Crowley trip. Marked down on a snuff list; to be rubbed out by ...
Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains The Same (Warner West End/ABC Shaftesbury Avenue)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 13 November 1976
ZEP BLOW IT ...
Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains The Same
Film/DVD/TV Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 13 November 1976
SO THERE we were. We'd pushed through the crowds outside the Warner West End theatre. Run the gamut of flashbulbs. Said Hello to the McCartneys. ...
'It’s a Massive Compromise, Making Films': Jimmy Page on The Song Remains the Same
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 20 November 1976
A WARM HANDSHAKE, twinkling eyes and black hair grown thicker than he has allowed for some while – Jimmy Page arrived at his London office ...
Jimmy Page: The Roaring Silence
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 20 November 1976
I WAS IN New York when they last asked me to write a thing on Led Zeppelin. An American magazine, it was, with strict deadlines ...
Book Excerpt by David Dalton, Lenny Kaye, Rock 100, 1977
ON MAY 5, 1973, A CAPACITY CROWD OF 56,800 paid $309,000 to watch Led Zeppelin perform for nearly three hours in a Tampa, Florida, football ...
Britain's Tax Exiles; Keeping a Piece of the Rock
Report by Simon Frith, The Village Voice, 28 March 1977
It's difficult to feel sorry for an exile whose alternative to an impoverished Britain is unfettered hedonism in the south of France. ...
Jimmy Page: Shy Rock Star Almost Unburdens Himself
Interview by Nick Kent, Creem, April 1977
I'VE KNOWN Led Zeppelin professionally for probably 4 years now, starting back in the winter of I972 when I was sent out on the road ...
Interview by Chris Salewicz, Gig, May 1977
"When you've discovered your true will, you should just forge ahead like a steam train. If you put all your energies into it there's no ...
The Tour In Progress: Jimmy Plage Files His Report
Interview by Wesley Strick, Circus, 9 June 1977
ROBERT PLANT comes bouncing into the hotel room in satin blouse, second-skin denims and high-heeled sneakers. "We've got a new Jimmy Page," he crows. "He's ...
Interview by Wesley Strick, Circus, 23 June 1977
Jimmy Page Pauses for a Few Words about Roots, Keith Richards and Zep's Musical Karma ...
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, July 1977
CONDUCTING AN INTERVIEW with Jimmy Page, lead guitarist and producer/arranger for England's notorious hard rock band Led Zeppelin, amounts very nearly to constructing a mini-history ...
Led Zeppelin: Sodom and Gomorrah in a Suitcase
Report and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, July 1977
FLASH: April 19, 1977, Cincinnati, Ohio: Led Zeppelin, a British rock group, again brought violence is its wake when about 1,000 fans tried to gatecrash ...
Jimmy Page: Paging the Yardbirds
Interview by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, October 1977
JIMMY PAGE gives his version Part 2 of a three-part interview by Dave Schulps ...
Interview by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, November 1977
JIMMY P. on LED Z. The Conclusion of a three-part interview ...
Led Zeppelin Climbs Rocks Stairway To Heaven
Retrospective and Interview by Kris DiLorenzo, Grooves, 1978
LED ZEPPELIN, the world's best-selling rock 'n' roll band, came into being in 1968 after guitarist Jimmy Page left the legendary Yardbirds, the group that ...
Led Zeppelin: The Definitive Discography
Discography by Dave Lewis, Sounds, 30 September 1978
PRE-LED ZEPPELIN SESSIONS ...
Led Zeppelin: A Psychobiograph
Memoir by Susan Whitall, Creem, February 1979
I COULD BEGIN this psychobiograph by letting you in on the incredibly orgasmic Yardbirds-featuring-Jimmy Page-gig I caught at the Grande in Detroit in the late ...
Led Zeppelin: Smiling Men With Bad Reputations
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 4 August 1979
OF ALL THE old superfart bands it is certainly Led Zeppelin who have been and still are the most reviled by the New Wave. ...
Ghosts Of Progressive Rock Past: Led Zeppelin et al at Knebworth
Report by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 11 August 1979
EVENTS LIKE KNEBWORTH, the promoter Freddy Bannister had wanly predicted in Saturday's Guardian, cannot continue for much longer. The reasons for the inevitable decline and ...
Live Review by Hugh Fielder, David Hepworth, Sounds, 11 August 1979
OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY ...
Led Zeppelin: In Through The Out Door (Swan Song)
Review by Chris Bohn, Melody Maker, 11 August 1979
THE GRAND illusion was popped way back when I was taking my O-levels. Then Led Zeppelin 2 fulfilled the noble function of releasing all the ...
Led Zeppelin: In Through The Out Door (Swansong)
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 11 August 1979
THREE LONG years has it been? Let's me see now. Ah, yes Presence, released in April 1976, was the last shot of new Led Zeppelin ...
Led Zeppelin/New Barbarians/Todd Rundgren: Knebworth, Hertfordshire
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 18 August 1979
WELL, THAT'S OVER. No more Led Zeppelin front covers for a good while; no more wondering whether Mick would appear with the New Barbarians; no ...
Led Zeppelin: Knebworth Park, Hertfordshire
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 18 August 1979
WELL. I quite like them. ...
Close The Door, Put The Light Out… Led Zeppelin: In Through The Out Door (Swan Song)
Review by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 1 September 1979
YOU'RE PROBABLY not interested in our problems, but I think an explanation is in order as to why Sounds is carrying a review of the ...
The Songs Remain The Same: Led Zeppelin at Knebworth Park
Live Review by Mick Brown, Rolling Stone, 4 October 1979
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Report by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 26 September 1980
JOHN BONHAM, the drummer with Led Zeppelin rock group, was found dead yesterday in bed at the house of the group's lead guitarist, Jimmy Page, ...
Led Zeppelin: Bonzo's Last Bash – Is It The End For Zeppelin Too?
Report by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 4 October 1980
EARLY LAST Thursday afternoon Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones went up to one of the guest bedrooms in Jimmy Page's £900,000 Windsor house, where ...
Robert Plant Takes Root in the '80s
Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, October 1982
MOBY GRAPE INTO THE VOID ...
Bath 1970: Confessions Of A Festival-Goer
Memoir by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1983
The 1970 Bath Festival: a personal view. ...
Book Excerpt by Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, 'The Guitar Greats' (BBC Books), 1983
THERE ARE CERTAIN guitar players without whom this book could not claim to approach completeness, and, of course, one of our criteria for inclusion was ...
Interview by John Hutchinson, Record, September 1983
Led Zeppelin now a fond but distant memory, Robert Plant turns his attention towards a new solo album, a new band and a world tour ...
Jimmy Page: The Life And Times Of A Guitar Prophet
Interview by John Tobler, Musician, January 1984
JIMMY PAGE was born in Heston, West London, on January 9, 1944, and moved with his family to nearby Feltham during his infancy. He spent ...
Book Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 6 April 1985
Whole lotta what? ...
The Jimmy Page Interview, Pt. 2
Interview by Chris Welch, Creem, May 1985
(This is the concluding segment of an interview writer Chris Welch recently conducted with Jimmy Page in Frankfurt, Germany, following one of the guitarist's premiere ...
Hammer Of The Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga by Stephen Davis (Wm. Morrow & Co.)
Book Review by Bill Holdship, Creem, October 1985
LEMONS OF THE GODS ...
Tony Thompson: It Ain't The Meat, It's The Emotion
Interview by J.D. Considine, Musician, March 1986
The Power, the Glory, and the Groove: Our Man from Chic Hits Hard and Hits Big, from Zep to Power Station to Madonna ...
Chris Huston, Eddie Kramer's Co-engineer on Led Zeppelin II
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, July 1986
FOR MANY, the first two Led Zeppelin albums were Led Zeppelin. The enormous drum sound, those magical guitar tones and just the energy and volume ...
Led Zeppelin: Danny Goldberg's Hideaway
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, July 1986
IN 1973, DANNY Goldberg was working for Lee Solters, a show business public relations man who included Frank Sinatra as one of his clients, when ...
Led Zeppelin: Rodney B.'s Endless Party
Retrospective and Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, July 1986
The parties were legendary, the hotels trashed regularly, the hangers-on flowed constantly when the Zep cruised the skyways. ...
Robert Plant: Deference to the Taskmaster
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, July 1986
In team play, where everything clicks, somebody has to call the shots. ...
Robert Plant: The Song Remains The Same
Interview by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, 30 January 1988
Over the past three years Led Zeppelin have been used and abused by everyone from The Cult to the Beastie Boys. On the eve of ...
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, March 1988
"I CAN'T BLAME anybody for hating Led Zeppelin. If you absolutely hated 'Stairway To Heaven', nobody can blame you for that because it was, um...so ...
Interview by Chuck Eddy, Creem, June 1988
A FEW MONTHS back, Robert Plant walked into Atlantic Records' London offices and played 'Scream', by Ralph Nielsen & The Chancellors. Now, I dunno if ...
Retrospective and Interview by Danny Fields, Details, July 1988
"Well, don't forget that the reason people dress up and become rock 'n'roll stars is because I think we have something wrong with us anyway. ...
Interview by Nick Kent, Vox, December 1990
In days of yore, communication breakdowns with the press suggested Jimmy Page was a dazed and confused prince of heavy metal. With Zeppelin reissues breaking ...
Retrospective and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, December 1990
IT IS 10 YEARS since, disconsolate at the death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin ceased to be. Though there is perhaps no conscious attempt ...
Lead Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin (Atlantic box-set)
Review by Tim Riley, The Boston Phoenix, 21 December 1990
Dead Zeppelin: New Led box is full of hot air ...
Overview by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 19 January 1991
Bring your good taste to be slaughtered! To mark Iron Maiden's ground-breaking success (any bleedin' excuse — Ed), STUART MACONIE investigates the subtle and many-faceted ...
Led Zeppelin: Stairway to Heaven, Paved with Gold
Essay by Steve Turner, The Independent, 6 April 1991
Steve Turner follows the maze of mysticism and Celtic mythology to a small cottage in Snowdonia where the legend of Led Zeppelin was forged ...
Overview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 4 July 1992
STEFFAN CHIRAZI charts the history of all those supposedly Satanic bands — anyone out there remember VENOM and their 1982 classic Black Metal, or the ...
Interview by Cliff Jones, Rock CD, April 1993
FOR A MAN who's spent the last 20 years protesting that his own colourful history is of little interest to him, it comes as a ...
Interview by Mat Snow, MOJO, December 1994
THE DATE: Thursday, September 29,1994. THE PLACE: a table outside a café in Tottenham Street, London W1. THE CAST: Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Mat Snow ...
Interview by Alvaro Costa, unpublished, 1995
ROCK GODS SHOULD never leave their Olympus, in particular if they happen to stroll along a Parisian street during the city's Marathon. ...
The Moment: 25 Years of Rock Photography
Book Excerpt by Jill Furmanovsky, 'The Moment' (Paper Tiger), 1995
A Beatles fan MY FIRST ROCK picture, taken circa 1967 on an instamatic camera, was of Paul McCartney with two of my school friends outside his ...
Pamela Des Barres: Supergroupie
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 4 January 1997
Legendary supergroupie PAMELA DES BARRES has toured the dark side of rock'n'roll and lived to tell the tale. But what does she make of young ...
Led Zeppelin: The BBC Sessions (Atlantic)
Review and Interview by Mat Snow, MOJO, December 1997
Led Zeppelin's first official all-live release since 1976's The Song Remains The Same. The 2-CD set is drawn from sessions recorded for the BBC before ...
Report and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Rolling Stone, 1998
THE VERY IDEA of MTV as deus ex machina is enough to send shudders down the hardiest spine. But MTV it was who approached Robert ...
Interview by Sylvia Patterson, New Musical Express, 28 March 1998
Hey! Come back! Haven't you heard? Old blokes are cool, the past is the future and prog rock is back. In fact, the perfect time ...
John Paul Jones: Life After Led Zeppelin
Profile and Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Happening, October 1999
WHILE JOHN Paul Jones will forever be known as the bassist and keyboardist of Led Zeppelin, his musical legacy extends far beyond the boundaries of ...
Getting it Together at Bron-yr-Aur: The Story of Led Zeppelin III
Retrospective and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, April 2000
Who’s moving into Bron-yr-Aur? Why, it’s that Led Zeppelin, come to shake off their blues roots and get talked. Phil Sutcliffe on the Welsh sojourn ...
Review by Ian Fortnam, music365.com, April 2000
BY 1973 Led Zeppelin had attained absolutely colossal status and the band's positively palaeontological enormity was utterly unprecedented. The Beatles may have enjoyed a far ...
Book Excerpt by Chris Welch, from 'The Man Who Led Zeppelin', Omnibus Books, 2001
An extract from Peter Grant: The Man Who Led Zeppelin by Chris Welch, first published by Omnibus Press in 2001. (256pp, currently available in softback ...
Robert Plant (2003) [transcript]
Audio transcript of interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 2003
This is a transcript of Barney's interview with Robert. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, March 2003
BH: About ten years ago you talked about the footage that's in the DVD. Robert said he didn't want to go back there while you ...
All Loud On The Western Front: How Zep Conquered The World
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, May 2003
With the release of the sensational DVD and the fearsome live How The West Was Won, LED ZEPPELIN are back in our midst as purveyors ...
Been A Long Time: Led Zeppelin
Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, June 2003
EVEN NOW, after all these years of hairtree wannabes and idiot tribute bands, there's something so fierce and coruscating about Led Zeppelin in their prime ...
Stairway to Snowdonia: Rapping with Robert Plant
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, October 2003
For Robert Plant, life after Led Zeppelin has been anything but predictable. Resisting attempts to coast on the Zep legend, Percy has trodden his own ...
Anchor Man: The Ultimate John Paul Jones Interview, Pt 1
Interview by Dave Lewis, Excerpt from 'The Tight But Loose Files', December 2003
In an in-depth extract from his new Led Zeppelin: The Tight But Loose Files (Omnibus Press), Dave Lewis gets the lowdown from the Led Zep ...
Anchor Man: The Ultimate John Paul Jones Interview, Pt 2
Interview by Dave Lewis, Excerpt from 'The Tight But Loose Files', December 2003
Dave Lewis: How do you look back on the experience of making The Song Remains The Same. ...
Page and Plant Unledded: The London Filming for MTV
Book Excerpt by Dave Lewis, 'The Tight But Loose Files', December 2003
2004 INTRO: In 1993 all hopes of any conceivable type of Zeppelin reunion seemed well off the agenda. Page and Plant were both wrapped up ...
Retrospective by Chris Charlesworth, Q, Spring 2003
NOTE: Like almost everyone else who encountered Led Zeppelin in their pomp in the ‘70s, including many in their employ, I was intimidated by them. ...
Guide by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, September 2004
1. The Last Waltz THE BAND'S elegant swansong is the ultimate rock concert movie. Director Martin Scorsese's discreet camerawork and superb sound captures inspired performances from ...
Stairwell to Headley: Led Zeppelin's Fourth Album
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, July 2006
THE SCENE IS Atlantic Records' HQ in New York City, the date early September 1971. The event is a tense standoff between, on the one ...
The Power and the Glory: Led Zeppelin and the making of IV
Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, July 2006
Author’s note: This is the full, unexpurgated version of a piece for Uncut magazine. It is itself a very truncated distillation of the full-length study ...
Retrospective by 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 ...
Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones
Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, October 2007
IT IS A ROCK and roll fantasy that most people had abandoned. On November 26 at London's O2 Arena, the three surviving members of Led ...
John Paul Jones: The Quiet One
Interview by Mat Snow, MOJO, December 2007
IN THE WORLD'S loudest group, John Paul Jones was the Quiet One. He never seemed to speak, and though he grooved, it was pressed up ...
Led Zeppelin: Why We Should Dig The 'Rock Dinosaurs' All Over Again
Guide by Nick Coleman, Independent on Sunday, 2 December 2007
They were the biggest band of the 1970s and they're about to reform ...
Led Zeppelin: The First, The Biggest, And Still The Best...
Retrospective by Andy Gill, The Independent, 7 December 2007
The greatest reunion in rock is on Monday, when Led Zeppelin play the O² Arena. Andy Gill is dazed, but not confused ...
Led Zep back on UK stage for 1st time in 27 years
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 11 December 2007
IT'S BEEN A LONG time since they rock and rolled. But here at last are Led Zeppelin back on a British stage again for the ...
Special Feature by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 28 December 2007
GIGS OFTHE YEAR LOU REED: Hammersmith Apollo, London Critically mauled on its original release, Berlin – Reed’s 1973 masterpiece of drug-addled despair, emotional and physical breakdown – ...
Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, January 2008
The return of was the music event of the year. On the eve of their comeback show at London's O2 arena, here for the first ...
Led Astray: How Four Long-Haired Limey Geezers Changed My Life
Memoir by Gerrie Lim, August Man, November 2008
TOOTING BEC, London, is only memorable to me because of a cold, windswept day in November 2005. ...
Led Zeppelin: How Could They Fail? An Overview
Retrospective by Chris Charlesworth, unpublished, 2009
NOTE: The first time I encountered Led Zeppelin was interviewing Jimmy Page by phone when I was a reporter on the Bradford Telegraph & Argus, ...
Thirty Years Gone: Remembering John Bonham
Book Excerpt by Roy Carr, 'Talk on the Wild Side' (EarBooks), 2009
WELL, THIS IS L.A., so I assume we're being hit by an earthquake. What else could cause the walls of my hotel room to vibrate ...
I Was There: Nostalgic Recollections From Led Zeppelin's 1979 Shows at Knebworth
Book Excerpt by Dave Lewis, Then As It Was (Tight But Loose Publishing), August 2009
FOR THE THOUSANDS of fans who converged on Hertfordshire over the first two weekends of August 1979, Led Zeppelin at Knebworth was more than a ...
Going veggie with Robert Plant
Memoir by Caroline Boucher, The Guardian, 20 June 2010
It wasn't easy grabbing a decent stew in Carnaby Street with the Led Zeppelin singer, says Caroline Boucher. ...
Let's Get Physical: The Story of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Classic Rock, September 2010
SOMETHING IS ROTTEN in the state of rock. The heady euphoria of the late Sixties has degenerated into decadence and self-satisfaction. Working-class guitar heroes have ...
Houses of the Unholy: Aubrey Powell on Led Zeppelin
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, March 2011
NOTE: This is a transcription from an interview that Hipgnosis co-founder Aubrey Powell gave me in March 2011, for Trampled Under Foot, my 2012 oral ...
An Interview with Peter Grant's daughter Helen
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, Spring 2011
Author's note: This is a transcript of an interview I did with Helen Grant for Trampled Under Foot, my oral history of Led Zeppelin. ...
In the Misty Mountains: Led Zeppelin Get It Together in the Country
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Trampled Under Foot' (Faber & Faber), 2012
JIMMY PAGE: It wasn't until the spring of 1970 that we actually had a real break. That break was only probably a couple of months, ...
In The Mood: The Favourite Albums Of Rush's Geddy Lee
Guide by Mick Middles, The Quietus, 29 June 2012
Mick Middles speaks to Rush bassist and singer Geddy Lee about his favourite albums of all times... and finds surprises amidst the classic of the ...
"The new chaps are only about 19 and full of enthusiasm": The birth of Led Zeppelin
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Trampled Under Foot' (Faber & Faber), September 2012
In this excerpt from his oral history Trampled Under Foot: The Power and Excess of Led Zeppelin, Barney Hoskyns charts the formation and ascent of ...
No Stairway! The Real Best of Led Zeppelin
Guide by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, September 2012
Forget 'Stairway to Heaven'. In fact, forget 'Heartbreaker' and 'Rock and Roll' and (yikes!) even 'Dazed and Confused' and 'When the Levee Breaks'. (Definitely forget ...
Their Satanic Majesties Request: When Led Zeppelin Ruled The World
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Trampled Under Foot' (Faber & Faber), September 2012
By 1973, Led Zeppelin was the biggest rock band on the planet. In this excerpt from Trampled Under Foot, Barney Hoskyns' new oral history of ...
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 3 September 2012
RIPLEY... EPSOM... WALLINGTON. The names hardly resonate in the way that Clarksdale or Greenville or Natchez do. Yet in their way these Surrey towns are ...
This Must Be The Place: Holy Grails and Musical Meccas in Pop Culture
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, Fall 2012
FOR TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT, my oral history of Led Zeppelin, one of the interviews I conducted was with Dave Bates, an almost-famous A&R man from ...
Obituary by Dave Laing, The Guardian, 9 April 2013
Consummate sound engineer who worked with some of rock's greats ...
Obituary by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, June 2013
ANDY JOHNS lived rock'n'roll, whether that meant delicately dangling microphones over a banister at country house studio Headley Grange to get the sound of John ...
Report by Chris Charlesworth, Rock's Backpages, October 2014
TO CADOGAN HALL in Sloaney Knightsbridge where Jimmy Page has agreed to submit to a public interrogation by Guardian Music Editor Michael Hann, the exercise ...
Dennis Sheehan Talks About Led Zeppelin (and a little bit about U2)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, May 2015
NOTE: This is a transcription of an April 2010 phone interview with Dennis Sheehan – then tour manager for U2 – for my oral history ...
Comment by Caryn Rose, salon.com, 15 February 2016
Set inside the New York music industry in 1973, Vinyl is a fascinating and frustrating chronicle of the era. ...
Led Zeppelin: The Complete BBC Sessions
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Classic Rock, October 2016
JUST HOW MUCH more juice is there to be squeezed out of the Led Zeppelin lemon? It's a question you may well ask yourself by ...
Guide by Steve Matteo, Boomer, 17 August 2018
Recent books by and about favorite boomer musicians and influencers ...
Mark Blake: Bring It On Home – Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin and Beyond (Constable)
Book Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 20 October 2018
The manager of Led Zeppelin was a giant with giant appetites, says Stephen Dalton. ...
The 30 best live concert albums of all time
Guide by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 22 April 2020
LAST WEEK, A STORY appeared in the New York Times that predicted that live music would not return to the world's stages until the autumn ...
Ann Wilson: "Singing Led Zeppelin taught me how to sing rock 'n' roll — loud and high"
Interview by Laura Barton, The Independent, 24 April 2022
With her sister Nancy, Ann Wilson fronted the revolutionary, female-led hard rock outfit Heart. Laura Barton speaks to her on the cusp of a new ...
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