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.
Jimmy Page and the The Black Crowes are revisiting their 1999 collaboration with an expanded edition of Live at the Greek, and they’ve just shared a fresh taste from it—a newly unearthed live ...
Led Zeppelin had a different approach to music than The Beatles, but they had one thing in common. Both bands burned brightly in their relatively short careers and left very little filler along the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes' "The Lemon Song" debuts inside the ...
J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...
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, ...
Guitarist Jimmy Page lived through a whirlwind in late 1968. He experienced the disintegration of the Yardbirds, the formation of Led Zeppelin, and the recording of the band’s debut album within a few ...
Led Zeppelin rarely released a bad note during their dozen-year career. But like all legends, they stumbled from time to time. It's easier to find those weaker tracks on lesser albums in their nine-LP ...
It would probably be fair to say that live performing was the thing that propelled Led Zeppelin. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant said so themselves the first time the band spoke with Rolling Stone in 1975 ...
Led Zeppelin was rarely predictable, from extended drum solos ("Moby Dick") to multiple epics that stretch past 10 minutes ("Stairway to Heaven," "Achilles Last Stand") and mid-song psychedelic ...
It's no secret that Led Zeppelin ripped off lesser-known blues artists to craft some of their most timeless songs — so consider this list of the 11 best and most brazen Led Zeppelin rip-offs a loving ...