Jimmy Page's decision to break the chains of being a muzak session musician to form the eight-legged rock behemoth known to the globe as Led Zeppelin remains one of rock's most significant moments.

Led Zeppelin may have been a multi-faceted band, but Robert Plant thought there was one sweet spot where they broke off from the herd.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to Defector Music Club, where a number of our writers get together to dish about an album. Today, Israel Daramola, Dave McKenna, Ray Ratto, David Roth, and Lauren Theisen discuss Led ...

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 ...