Led Zeppelin's two-night stand at the Coliseum in Richfield on April 27-28, 1977, has achieved mythic status among diehard fans of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rock quartet. Much of that has to do ...
When Stephen Davis wrote the Led Zeppelin biography Hammer Of The Gods in 1984 he created the mythical image of the band as a four-man army raping and pillaging their way across the world. His new ...
Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin in the early 1970s (Photo by Dina Regine, Creative Commons license) On May 18, 1977, the English rock group Led Zeppelin kicked off the middle leg of the band's epic North ...
Despite their status as the biggest band on the planet throughout the 1970s, the kind who shuttled from sold-out arena show to sold-out arena show in a private jumbo jet, Led Zeppelin didn’t really ...
When Led Zeppelin came crashing onto the scene in 1968, it was clear which bands they’d have to top. With regard to studio innovations and reaching the big audiences, The Beatles led the pack. As far ...
Between 1950-80, there were too many rock ‘n’ roll tragedies to count. In 1959, the world lost Buddy Holly and a 17-year-old Ritchie Valens in a plane crash. A decade late, Jimi Hendrix and Jim ...
Led Zeppelin kicked off their latest U.S. tour on May 4, 1973, beginning a jaunt that became legendary thanks to The Song Remains the Same. They'd become the biggest band in the land by the spring of ...