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Jimmy Page on how a ‘lost guitar track’ almost derailed Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti: “He erased one of the original guitar tracks. For some reason, he rubbed the damn thing out”

A miraculous salvage job rescued The Rover after an overdub ruined an original take

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Carmine Appice names the forgotten rock drummer who “started everything”: “The playing, the showmanship, the twirling – he was a monster player and never got credit”

The Vanilla Fudge drummer salutes a rock pioneer – and clears up a famous Led Zeppelin rumour

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“If James Burton recorded that song one more time, it would not have sounded the same. They caught lightning in a bottle”: An all-star guitar panel choose their Telecaster Mount Rushmore – its greatest players, their greatest tracks

Pros pick their favorite Tele riffs and solos and decide who should be carved into that massive “Telecaster Mount Rushmore” that exists only in our deranged minds

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Watch a young Black Sabbath confuse the hell out of stoned European hippies one week before Paranoid became a hit single

Black Sabbath’s performance of Paranoid at Jazz Bilzen festival in August 1970 is a sweet snapshot of metal history

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How Led Zeppelin created the impossible-to-copy rhythmic swing of Black Dog. "I wrote it on a bit of paper on the train"

Often presumed to be inspired by Jimmy Page's fascination with the occult, Black Dog's origins were much more earthbound

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“Surely it’s the greatest psychedelic rock song ever recorded… It makes the whole God thing seem plausible!” Kavus Torabi’s Guide To Cardiacs

Guitarist recalls his first stint in the late Tim Smith’s band via five of their songs chosen by Prog

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“We were going to form a group at the time of the Beck’s Bolero sessions”: Jeff Beck was going to be part of the original Led Zeppelin, according to Jimmy Page

In a momentous sliding doors moment in rock history, Page and Beck had plans to form a twin-guitar act that would have been supported by Keith Moon and John Entwistle

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“The first Slipknot album is all chaos; the Stone Sour album is a baring of the soul”: Corey Taylor reveals the 10 albums that changed his life

The Great Big Mouth on his best records, Les Misérables and how great sex made him a Depeche Mode fan

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“The key is to know when to walk and when to run, or when to stomp and when to noodle... Don’t mess with a great groove”: John Paul Jones breaks down four Led Zeppelin classics, and how they demonstrate where and when to leave space

The bass legend illustrates his “hard and soft” approach via Trampled Under Foot, The Song Remains the Same, Kashmir, and What Is and What Should Never Be

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If you currently have £50,000 burning a hole in your pocket you could buy former Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham's 1972 Jensen Interceptor III at auction this weekend

Live out your "I used to be the drummer in Led Zeppelin" fantasies by purchasing John Bonham's 'motor'

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“I heard this car come roaring up… Jeff’s coming out and he’s holding this guitar. He said, ‘Here, this is yours for getting me in the Yardbirds’”: The story of the Fender Telecaster that unites Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page

How a gift of thanks from one Yardbird alumnus to another turned a guitar into a bona-fide icon

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"When Peter Grant played me the first Led Zeppelin album I thought he was having a laugh." Jeff Beck: My Life In 11 Songs

In 2008, Jeff Beck looked back on his stellar career, and talked about his solo work and his music with The Yardbirds, Robert Plant, Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder and more

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In 1980, Led Zeppelin had new life, and were moving into a new era as a band – then tragedy struck. This was their final show with John Bonham

The fateful 14-song set took place on this day, 1980, in Berlin

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“Robert asked, ‘Do you know a Led Zeppelin song called The Ocean?’ I just casually answered, ‘Yeah, I know that song’”: Robert Plant bassist Viktor Krauss on the genius of the legendary frontman – and the inspiration he gets from his sister Alison

Few bassists can match the pedigree of Viktor Krauss, thanks to his session work with the likes of Lyle Lovett, Bill Frisell, Robert Plant, James Taylor and just about everyone else

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“Alex said, ‘I don’t want to play my double-neck – it’s too heavy.’ I said, ‘I’ll do it!’ He lent me his white Gibson EDS-1275 for Stairway”: How Crown Lands went from Rush’s spiritual successors to playing Led Zeppelin with their heroes

Are Crown Lands heirs to the Rush crown as Canada’s foremost prog act? Kevin Comeau is just happy to be living the prog dream, falling down the rabbit-hole of double-necks and 19-minute tracks

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“To call Led Zeppelin heavy metal is at the very least absurd and at worst a sin. To me, Zeppelin was the equivalent of great classical music”: Kiss stars Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons on why Zep and The Beatles’ debut albums are the greatest of all time

“The first time I heard Good Times Bad Times on the radio, my jaw just dropped!”

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Jimmy Page on Presence: "You don't make music like that falling about in the street drunk"

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page reflects on the making of the band's 1976 album Presence, recorded in difficult circumstances in just three weeks

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“There’s healthy humility, but this felt crippling. You come out of that and go, ‘I don’t care what people think about me’”: What Radiohead means to Ed O’Brien after his complete transformation

A battle with depression resulted in a new way of life for the guitarist, as illustrated on second solo album Blue Morpho

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“George was talking to Bonzo one evening and said, ‘The problem with you guys is that you never do ballads.’ I said, ‘I’ll give him a ballad’”: How a light-hearted comment from a former Beatle inspired one of Led Zeppelin’s greatest songs

“Seven minutes of exquisite heartache” – quite unlike anything else the band created

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"They're not gonna get anybody heavier than me, are they?" In 1971 Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant was asked how he dealt with bootleggers

The BBC footage also shows Pink Floyd hearing one of their own bootlegs for the first time – and they're not happy

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"John orders 12 bottles of champagne. I thought he was going to treat everybody in the club, but he turned to me and said, 'Go on, drink it – that's yours.'" What happened when John Bonham was best man at Tony Iommi's wedding

Led Zeppelin's famously revelrous drummer John Bonham was Best Man at Tony Iommi's wedding in 1973

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Fed Zeppelin: 5 Songs That Explain the Biggest Central Bank in the World

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant have a lot to say about Donald Trump, Kevin Warsh and "regime change" at the Fed.

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“The violin bow was laying on the floor of the studio. Just to be class clown, I picked it up and tried to emulate Jimmy Page from The Song Remains The Same”: How The Cult created their classic signature song

“The words give hope, which marries well with the uplifting nature of the music”

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“I was in my boxers and my mother caught me in this heightened creative moment. It was pretty embarrassing”: Inspired by Tool, Led Zeppelin and classic sci-fi, Coheed And Cambria turned a tumultuous break-up into Welcome Home

Thanks to its venomous lyrics and hard, screeching riff, the 2005 single became a Platinum-selling breakthrough moment

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“We’re playing Led Zeppelin songs, and Eddie would imitate Jimmy Page… I mean, he had it down!”: Steve Farris on the time he jammed ZZ Top and Led Zeppelin songs with Eddie Van Halen

The Mr Mister guitarist got a front row seat to Eddie Van Halen's greatness when they they were both Peavey artists playing a NAMM show

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