Tag: John Bonham

It’s been a long time, but Led Zeppelin, one of the last superstar acts to refrain from selling its music online, is finally offering its catalog to digital-music fans. The…

Led Zeppelin created an all-time classic with “Stairway to Heaven.” Singer Robert Plant has no idea if fans got the point of the song, but it might not matter. Whether…

Led Zeppelin’s second album, Led Zeppelin II, heroically knocked the Beatles’ Abbey Road off the top of the albums chart in 1969. Evidently, the Midlands band were a force to…

Some decisions define the rest of our lives. John Bonham must have come to that same conclusion when he agreed to join Jimmy Page’s fledgling rock group, Led Zeppelin. It’s…

As any knowledgeable songwriter will tell you, there is such a thing as getting “too close” to a song. From writing and demoing to recording in the studio, musicians spend…

For any rock and roll enthusiasts, there’s usually a bubble put around the work of Led Zeppelin. Aside from their various accusations of plagiarism throughout their career, no one can…

Led Zeppelin’s four members wrote and performed the band’s best songs. Guest musicians occasionally assisted, but Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham did the heavy lifting.…

In many ways, drummer John Bonham was Led Zeppelin. A rhythmic titan that fused the jazz flourishes of his hero Gene Krupa with a natural thunder that only a few…

Led Zeppelin emerged fully formed. Their self-titled debut, which turns 50 on Saturday, catalogued the sounds that would come to define the band, from stinging riff rock to epic, improv-heavy…

On another grey day in London, Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page was slogging through yet another endless session recording. By 1965, he’d been working as a studio guitarist for a number…