After two hard-hitting and heavy blues-influenced albums, Led Zeppelin III confused fans and critics with several folk-inspired songs. The cover telegraphed the musical direction even before listeners ...

In early ’70, Abbey Road and Zeppelin II traded weeks at No. 1 until Zep’s album took over for all of February. “Whole Lotta Love,” the track that fueled the band’s searing live performances, ...

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 ...

For U.S. males who grew up in the “classic rock” era of radio, many of us went through a Led Zeppelin phase. Maybe it lasted a year or two during high school, pounding out Bonzo’s drum parts with ...