Jimmy Page's decision to break the chains of being a muzak session musician to form the eight-legged rock behemoth known to ...

Physical Graffiti was the first Zeppelin album to be released on the band’s own label Swan Song – another mark of their power. “Like all of our albums,” Page said, “it was important that it was ...

Producer Kevin Shirley tells UCR how he helped Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes preserve an important moment of history.

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 ...

Fifty-four years ago today, Led Zeppelin embarked on a tour of small venues across the UK and debuted their best-known song.

Shortly after forming in London in 1968, Led Zeppelin bombed as gig audiences ... Crack it they did. The band’s first, eponymous album, released in early 1969, peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard ...

In retrospect, it makes sense that backing Bassey would prove formative: So much of Led Zeppelin was about power, poise and drama (or melodrama, if you think of the first album's overwrought "Babe ...

Jimmy Page was a guitarist in the Yardbirds and one of the busiest session musicians in London in the mid-‘60s when he first proposed ... their debut album as Led Zeppelin in early 1969.

Initially, in the first two months of 1974 ... “it was important that it was exactly how it was.” Every Led Zeppelin album was built to massive scale. Physical Graffiti was the biggest ...