When Jimmy Page was first considering how best to sequence Led Zeppelin's fifth album, he was hoping to feature a beginning segment of some kind. "My original idea for the opening tracks for Houses of ...

How do you follow the success of Led Zeppelin’s untitled fourth album, commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV? The album that included “Stairway to Heaven” was the second biggest-selling album of the ...

Jimmy Page is sharing with Led Zeppelin fans a previously unreleased demo titled "The Seasons" to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the band's Houses of the Holy album. The song should sound quite ...

Led Zeppelin defined and perfected ’70s hard rock. From “Whole Lotta Love” to “Stairway to Heaven” to “Fool in the Rain,” the achievements of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham ...

During an interview with Guitar World (per Guitar), Page explained why Led Zeppelin wrote their 1973 tune, “The Rain Song,” which appears on Houses of the Holy. A critique from George triggered them ...

I’m sure having access to X-Files reruns on Hulu has spurred a trivial number of up-and-coming conspiracy theorists to action, but your garden variety hipsters generally know better. In a way, ...

Robert Plant’s son Karac had died in 1977 from a respiratory infection. The singer told Rolling Stone, after losing his son, “I found that the excesses that surrounded Led Zeppelin were such that ...

At the height of Led Zeppelin’s fame in 1975, Robert Plant called himself a “golden god,” a phrase he delivered with his tongue firmly in cheek. In the nearly 50 years since he uttered those words, ...

What Led Zeppelin lacked in song title creativity, they made up for with impressively played and magically memorable tunes. Zep had four songs with the word love in the title, but one of them, “Whole ...

They marked the moment when vast numbers of people, for the very first time, experienced rock ‘n’ roll as a reckless orgy of the self. This weekend, “Becoming Led Zeppelin,” the first official ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...