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“I have kept this film in a drawer all these years. Guitarists have gone nuts”: Unseen footage of Led Zeppelin performing in Denmark has surfaced after 45 years – and it's been restored with original audio

The footage – which pre-dates Led Zeppelin’s iconic Knebworth shows – has been carefully restored after spending more than four decades locked in a drawer

Guitar World

“I turned up at George Martin’s office with a diabolically bad demo – but he could see there was something there”: How Jeff Beck’s Blow by Blow triumphed against the odds to change instrumental guitar forever

50 years on, Blow by Blow remains an inspirational force – a turning point for Beck and guitar-led music in general

Guitar World

“The whole history of Led Zeppelin is musical expansion”: Their monumental double album Physical Graffiti is 50 years old today

It was Zeppelin's answer to The White Album and Electric Ladyland

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"The feedback is humbling and inspiring": Jimmy Page reacts to fan response to Led Zeppelin movie

Becoming Led Zeppelin in theatres now and has broken one box office record

Louder

"A ninth album would have been about riffs - interestingly constructed riffs and hypnotic music": Jimmy Page looks back on the tests and turmoil of Led Zeppelin's final albums

The man who led Zeppelin looks back on Presence, In Through The Out Door and Coda

Louder

“When I met Bono for the first time, I was like, ‘I used to sing Pride (In The Name Of Love) in my rock band growing up!’” Lady Gaga used to front a classic rock band who covered U2 and loved Led Zeppelin

The pop megastar talks about her early days singing classic rock tunes on the new episode of Hot Ones

Metal Hammer

‘We took them back to the good times: when it started’ – the inside story of Becoming Led Zeppelin

INTERVIEW: Stevie Chick talks to the filmmakers who persuaded the hard rock giants to revisit their early days and open their archives

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"It doesn't wholly demystify them, but it reveals the human brilliance at their heart": Becoming Led Zeppelin strips away the mystique to present the birth of a legend

Rare footage and the voice of John Bonham – Becoming Led Zeppelin is cracks opens the door into an unseen world

Louder

How Jimmy Page put Led Zeppelin documentary-makers through their paces

Legendary rock musician gave the creators of ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ a ‘test’ before fully agreeing to taking part

The Independent UK

‘Into the heart of the whirlwind’: how Led Zeppelin were sweet-talked into making a new film

They were quizzed endlessly and one wrong answer could have blown the lot. The makers of Becoming Led Zeppelin relive the tactics – and cups of tea – that got it green lit

The Guardian - UK

“It had so much weight. So much power”: How Led Zeppelin’s Communication Breakdown set the template for heavy metal and inspired a legendary punk guitarist

It’s unlike any other song on Zep’s first album

MusicRadar

"Ted Nugent came down to the dressing room and said ‘Guys! You have to calm down!'": The turbulent story of the Scorpions

Whether it’s almost changing their name to Stalingrad or filling their biggest hit with whistling, there’s always a sting in the Scorpions' tale

Metal Hammer

"It was crazed, almost Charles Manson–like." Before he started Def Jam, and produced everyone from Slayer to Johnny Cash, Rick Rubin played guitar in a noise-rock band called Hose, and recorded one of the worst Led Zeppelin covers ever committed to vinyl

Now one of the most powerful and influential men in the music industry, once upon a time super-producer Rick Rubin was just another punk rock guitarist in a terrible band

Metal Hammer

“I’ve always embraced my musical schizophrenia, and this is just another room in that mansion of personality”: How Them Crooked Vultures became modern rock’s greatest one-and-done supergroup

What happened when Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and John Paul Jones teamed up in Them Crooked Vu.tures

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"We got any Led Zeppelin fans out there?" Watch pop superstar Pink absolutely smash a timeless Led Zeppelin classic at Los Angeles FireAid benefit show

Pink proves once again that she is one of pop music's great voices with a flawless take on a Led Zeppelin classic

Louder

“Aqualung got its share of bashings in the Southern USA. It created anger amongst those ultra-conservative Baptist types”: How Jethro Tull conquered America in the 70s and became rock’s unlikeliest superstars

They ended the 1960s opening for Led Zeppelin in the US and ended the 70s headlining multiple nights at Madison Square Garden

Evening Standard

Johnnie Walker’s wife says she is sure her husband ‘loved’ his funeral service

Tiggy was joined by her husband’s former BBC Radio 2 colleagues and Led Zeppelin lead singer Robert Plant at the funeral service on Friday.

Guitar World

“Allthe labels said, ‘You’re dated.’ If weweren’t doing so well, it would have beencrushing, but we were playing tosold-out crowds”: How forgotten ’80s heroes Zebra earned their stripes as the people’s power-trio

Led by singer/guitarist Randy Jackson, Zebra kept the spirit of Zeppelin, Hendrix and Cream alive. These days, family man Jackson is busy shaping up the group’s first album in two decades

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“I don't think the term ‘Heavy Metal’ was used for Led Zeppelin”: So what was the first metal album to hit No 1 in the US?

Was it Randy Rhoads’ old band Quiet Riot that made history?

MusicRadar

“I fell off the bed laughing!” Why Jimmy Page thought a Whitesnake video was hilarious - and why he ended up making an album with that band’s singer David Coverdale

“Shall we get this story straight?” Page said

Guitar World

“This epic is Page’s crowning achievement in guitar orchestration”: Led Zeppelin's 50 greatest songs

An overview of the gems of the catalog of hard rock’s most innovative group, with a focus on the guitar playing, songwriting, and arranging genius of the quartet’s visionary founder

Louder

"He sang 'Squeeze My Lemon' and we're like, 'Oh, we must leave, we must leave the premises'": Heart's Wilson sisters once walked out of a Led Zeppelin show because Robert Plant was too suggestive

"We were scandalised, and we walked away"

Louder

"I just thought it was a good Queen gig. I was more interested in The Who": Photographer Neal Preston on being onstage with Queen at Live Aid

Legendary rock photographer Neal Preston tells stories of his time with Queen, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, the Allman Brothers and more

Louder

"It's journalistic complacency and claptrap." Robert Plant never liked the idea of Led Zeppelin being labelled a heavy metal band

"That period had a lot of people cavorting around using their manhood as the main weapon to sell records"

Louder

“We’d been paying Rick Wakeman £25 a week and Yes offered him £100… We had his son Oliver with us for a while, and he left for Yes too!” Dave Cousins and the life and times of Strawbs

Prog veteran recalls connecting with Sandy Denny, his band’s attempt to fire him, being loved by Led Zeppelin, why they’ve never had a Steven Wilson remix, the “albatross” of Part Of The Union and the unreleased, more political version

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