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‘Rock stars would be like, Yeah, bring the kid in’: Cameron Crowe on his wild years as a teenage music journalist

The film-maker told his own story in Almost Famous. Now he’s looking back on his younger days with Bowie and Led Zeppelin and revealing the family tragedy he’s finally facing up to

The Guardian - UK

"A gigantic, impermeable, orbital black achievement which has intensified with age": Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti receives a 50th Birthday polish

The latest iteration of Led Zeppelin's epic double album Physical Graffiti is accompanied by an EP of live recordings

Louder

“That’s one of the things that made us sound so heavy”: Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song, Kashmir, and The Song Remains the Same are wildly different classic rock staples, but one key element ties them all together, says John Paul Jones

Zeppelin’s power lay in their timing, the low-end giant explains, but there was more in the method to the band's madness

Guitar World

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“We came off stage and looked at each other in amazement, because all that singing from the audience was so extreme. And I said to Freddie, ‘Maybe we should be harnessing this kind of energy’”: How Queen created the mother of all rock anthems

“I was hoping it would catch on," Brian May said

MusicRadar

“I remember when Led Zeppelin II came out and hearing The Lemon Song. That bass solo is one of my favorite bass parts ever”: Why The Lemon Song is John Paul Jones’ finest moment in Led Zeppelin

The third cut from 1969's Led Zeppelin IIis considered the peak of John Paul Jones’ melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic brilliance

Guitar World

“I don’t know anything about what’s going on in that world now, at all”: Robert Plant reveals why he turned down the chance to appear at the Back To The Beginning show

“It’s just I found these other places that are so rich,” frontman says

MusicRadar

“It came from how much timber had been taken off the neck, almost to Ibanez levels of thinness”: What's the secret behind the tone of Jimmy Page's legendary “Number One” Les Paul? Bare Knuckle founder Tim Mills had the chance to examine it and found out

Mills had the opportunity to analyze the highly-coveted guitar after Page sent the guitar to his workshop just before the 2007 Led Zeppelin reunion

Guitar World

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Robert Plant will become an 'Elvis impersonator' if his musical projects fail

Led Zeppelin icon Robert Plant plans to become an "Elvis impersonator" if his future musical ideas do not pan out well.

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“It came from a great deal of eye contact between the two of us”: When it came to Led Zeppelin's most powerful riffs, sometimes what didn't get played was more important than what did, says John Paul Jones

They may have played a huge role in bringing heaviness and triple-digit onstage decibel counts to rock, but as bassist John Paul Jones explains, Zeppelin were also masters of silence

Guitar World

30 rock and metal songs that defined the 1980s

From AC/DC and Iron Maiden to Guns N’ Roses and Faith No More, this is the soundtrack to a decade

Metal Hammer

“Wrapping this era-defining talent and power in a cloak of mystique only supercharges the legacy”: Jimmy Page or Tony Iommi? A heated debate over who is the best guitarist

Two Classic Rock writers go toe-to-toe over the Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath guitar legends

Louder

“He was the kind of guy who liked confrontation, and I would always give it to him”: This is what Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore really thought about Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham

Friendship or rivalry? A little bit of both

Louder

"It was like I had died and gone to heaven. It was a really emotional moment”: Jimmy Page and the Robinson brothers tell the story of Live At The Greek

A short film is up now on Youtube

MusicRadar

“I’d never heard it like that, apart from on record, because in the days of Zeppelin, I’d do as much as I could with the one guitar”: 25 years ago, Jimmy Page’s live vision for one Zeppelin classic was fully realized – thanks to the Black Crowes

A new mini-documentary charting the history of Page and the Crowes’ live album, Live at the Greek, has been released

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“I dragged George Harrison in to listen to it on the way back from a Beatles session. He didn’t get it at all”: When the first Led Zeppelin album confused a Beatle — and was ignored by Mick Jagger

The album was made for a bargain price of £1,782

MusicRadar

“Whole Lotta Love was clearly the track that everybody would go to. That riff was so fresh — and it still is”: A classic interview with Jimmy Page

The Zeppelin legend spoke to Total Guitar's Chris Bird in 2020

Louder

"I'm physically lifted from the seat and violently spun around by a pissed-off John Paul Jones": Led Zeppelin - Out of Control in the USA

Led Zeppelin’s final tour of the US in 1977 should have been their most glorious. But it wasn’t. There was tension, unpleasantness and negativity, and that was just the start

Louder

“If you’re a Zep fan and really want to go see Zeppelin, you might as well go and see one of the better tribute bands”: The epic life and career of John Paul Jones, the heartbeat of Led Zeppelin and so much more

Crack session musician, in-demand producer, one quarter of the world’s biggest rock band – ex-Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones has done it all

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“This is my first band since Deep Purple. It’s out of this world – I’m back in a rock band, a real rock band”: How Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and a modern blues icon came together to form Black Country Communion

Black Country Communion’s second album, BCC2, established them as one of the greatest supergroups of the 21st century

Metal Hammer

“He was, without question, the best rock drummer in the world”: What Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward really thought of Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham

Black Sabbath’s Bill Ward and Led Zeppelin”s John Bonham rose through the ranks together

The Independent UK

The Black Crowes and Jimmy Page revisit a pivotal but mangled 26-year-old live set

One of the more puzzling live albums of all time came out in 2000

Guitar World

“Bonzo and I were great groovers. People would dance to our music. There aren't many hard rock bands these days that people dance to”: John Paul Jones breaks down his Led Zeppelin bass approach – and what separated his and Jimmy Page's riffs

The all-time bass great discusses his telepathic relationship with John Bonham, early influences, and why Stairway to Heaven's gradual speed-up is part of its magic

Louder

“We went down the sheep-dip in the 80s. They douse you with pesticide, and then you’re lucky to make it out alive”: The rollercoaster story of Heart, the 70s rock icons who survived MTV, grunge and each other

Ann and Nancy Wilson look back over the rise, fall and resurrection of Heart

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WiiM strikes again, the B&W Zeppelin Pro impresses while Technics' latest turntable earns five-stars

The five top products our testers gave perfect marks to last month

Louder

Nandi Bushell is back, and this time she's playing Led Zeppelin in stilettos

Bonzo would surely approve

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