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Time to celebrate all our wonderful folk music festivals

Letters: Ian A Anderson laments the lack of media coverage of folk festivals across England in favour of one in Cambridge. Plus a letter from Joel Griffiths

The Guardian - UK

Cambridge folk festival review – Robert Plant thrills, Peggy Seeger inspires and Oysterband rock

The Led Zeppelin frontman’s latest band, Saving Grace, riffs on country, folk, rock and blues, but the weekend belongs to female American singer-songwriters

The Guardian - UK

Jerry Miller, influential Moby Grape guitarist who Eric Clapton called the “best guitar player in the world”, has died aged 81

Jerry Miller was friends with Jimi Hendrix, inspired Led Zeppelin and was a trailblazing player in San Francisco's thriving '60s music scene

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"It's nice to be here in Vienna. You've even got some good groupies!": Previously unseen Led Zeppelin footage finds Robert Plant in a playful mood

The rare footage comes from Led Zeppelin's show at the Stadhalle in Vienna, Austria, during their 1973 European tour

Louder

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Robert Plant, and Sting once recorded in this mid-century modern home – it's now on sale for $925K

This historic Topanga property perfectly employs a rustic material for a cozy, minimalist home – however, it was formerly a base for music legends

Homes & Gardens

The rock musicians battling against AI: "If they can do it to Steve and they can do it to me, what's next? How far will they go?"

Exclusive: Peter Frampton and Jerry Shirley on the attempts by the owners of the Steve Marriott estate to replicate the singer's voice with AI – and why they're determined to fight it

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“Jimmy Page said, ‘Wow, I love the way you play that song.’ I was like, ‘God, I could die now’”: Heart’s Nancy Wilson on their long road to the top, grunge friends – and that cover of Stairway to Heaven

The band might have landed in the ’70s, but Nancy Wilson is inspiring more players than ever in 2024 –just glance at Instagram

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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss release mesmerising cover of When The Levee Breaks

Plant and Krauss's hypnotic version of When The Levee Breaks arrives with the duo's North American tour already underway

Louder

Why Aussie supergroup have been given a Stairway To Heaven hall pass

ARC return to tackle Led Zeppelin's most popular album, IV.

The Canberra Times

Robert Plant once pledged money to a radio station that promised never to play Stairway To Heaven ever again

Robert Plant: He's not like other rock stars

Louder

"It sounds like someone trying to sound like someone trying to sound like Steve Marriott": Rock legends line up to protest release of AI-assisted Humble Pie recordings

Robert Plant, David Gilmour, Peter Frampton and more have added their voices to a growing chorus of disapproval

Louder

Robert Plant loves them. So does Joe Bonamassa: Meet Ferris & Sylvester, the award-wining folk-blues rock'n'rollers with a psychedelic soul

Think: Johnny Cash and June Carter, with balls

Louder

“It takes me into the condition that I like best of all, to be the hunter, the student, the geek”: Robert Plant on the record he likes to start his day with

The ex-Led Zep icon has a compilation that takes him back to early blues trailblazers

Louder

Robert Plant is reportedly working on a new version of a Led Zeppelin classic for a "top-secret project"

Mystery surrounds the song (or is it 'songs'?) recorded during the session in Wolverhampton this week

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In what's turning out to be a bumper year for Led Zeppelin fans, more unseen live footage has emerged

The previously unseen film, shot in Ohio in 1975, was discovered in the archives of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

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“B.C. Rich guitars were God back then. They weren’t like a Strat or a Les Paul – they were something different. They had so much power”: Lita Ford on her trailblazing guitar journey – and that time she nearly joined Led Zeppelin

Ever since she lied about her age to save for her first electric guitar, Lita Ford has been all about lead and leading. She looks back at life-changing encounters with Tony Iommi and Ritchie Blackmore, and explains why Kemper profiling is like “putting a Rolls Royce into a Volkswagen body”

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"We locked the doors, then called security. Skip arrived in a taxi, with an axe, in his pyjamas": The wild genius of Skip Spence

Moby Grape co-founder Skip Spence wrote his album Oar in a psychiatric ward after threatening his bandmates with an axe. Years after his death, artists still acknowledge its influence

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"Jimmy's very lucky to be even playing tonight": Watch an ailing Jimmy Page lead Led Zeppelin through a truncated show as unseen live footage emerges

Rare live footage from Chicago in 1977 finds Led Zeppelin frustrating fans with a six-song set

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“Plant let us know he usually hated people’s covers of Stairway, but he liked that one. Jimmy Page goes, ‘You nailed the guitar part!’” That time Heart performed Stairway to Heaven in front of Led Zeppelin – and reduced Robert Plant to tears

When Led Zeppelin were awarded the Kennedy Center Honors in 2012, they were treated to an emotional rendition of their 1971 classic, performed by Ann and Nancy Wilson with the help of John Bonham's son

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Heart appeared on the Howard Stern show and talked about their iconic cover of Stairway To Heaven: then they played another Led Zeppelin classic

"We looked at each other and took a very deep breath" - Nancy Wilson on performing Stairway To Heaven in front of Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones

Louder

"This has to be the album against which every rock album that followed should be measured": Led Zeppelin attain peak Led Zeppelin status on Led Zeppelin IV

Of all their records, Led Zeppelin’s fourth album, released in late 1971, remains their most admired work

Guitar World

“I’d be there with bass pedals, a triple-neck guitar and keyboards, and Robert Plant would ask, ‘Can you sing, as well?’” How John Paul Jones became Led Zeppelin’s ultimate wingman

Armed with years of experience as a session bassist and arranger – having worked with the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck and the Rolling Stones – John Paul Jones could do it all

Louder

Taylor McCall studied wildlife management at university: Now he writes deeply personal songs inspired by the Vietnam War and tours with Robert Plant

If acoustic hymns, weird gospel and “some real ripping guitar” floats your boat, climb aboard

Louder

Watch Robert Plant, Eddie Vedder and more join Roger Daltrey onstage for an epic blast through Baba O'Reilly at the Royal Albert Hall

The final night of this year's run of Teenage Cancer Trust shows in London ended in spectacular style

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“I thought, ‘He’s got to be joking,’ because John Paul Jones is God on bass, as far as I’m concerned”: How Lita Ford almost ended up joining Led Zeppelin – on bass

In the early '70s, Jones was poised to take a step back from his role as the band's bassist – and Jimmy Page and Robert Plant eyed up The Runaways lead guitarist as a potential successor

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