Led Zeppelin’s sophomore effort featured six new original tunes co-written by singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page. It also included three songs that were adapted from blues tunes— two by ...

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 forming a group of his own with the Who’s rhythm section—and ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin II debuts at No. 93 on the U.K.’s Official Album Downloads chart, the band's first new entry on the tally in seven years. ENGLAND - 1969: Rock band 'Led Zeppelin' poses for ...

Even though Robert Plant will forever be a core part of Led Zeppelin, he felt that not every album was meant to be the best ...

To be so well-regarded as a touring band, Led Zeppelin certainly shied away from live albums. They released just one official concert recording during their '70s-era heyday, 1976's bombastic, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The release of the Becoming Led Zeppelin documentary pushes several ...

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 ...