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BIZARRE: 6 - What They Never Told You

"He proceeded to take his trousers off between songs. The police got very twitchy": The chaotic night Led Zeppelin jammed with Ten Years After and the Jeff Beck Group

"My last memory was of Bonham’s hairy backside disappearing, illuminated by a spotlight"

Louder

"I stood right at the front and watched. There was hardly anyone there": Behind the scenes at Led Zeppelin's first UK show, told by the people who saw it

When people turned up to a Newcastle ballroom, they expected to see The New Yardbirds. Instead, they saw the future of rock'n'roll

Louder

“This shadowy cut features what could be perhaps Page’s last great guitar solo”: Jimmy Page’s 10 greatest guitar solos – that weren’t in Led Zeppelin

Page had a wealth of fine leads in his sprawling pre- and post-Zeppelin career – and some of these are Firm favorites…

Guitar World

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Nathaniel Rateliff on hanging around with Robert Plant, getting high with Willie Nelson, and the struggles behind the new Night Sweats album

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats might not be party animals any more, but there's no shortage of energy when it comes to their music

Louder

“Robert Plant said, ‘We’re going to do Rock And Roll by Led Zeppelin.’ I said, ‘I’m not doing it – I don’t want to be in Jimmy Page’s graveyard!’” UK songwriting icon Richard Hawley talks big name jams, guitar shopping –and restoring Scott Walker's Tele

Hawley doesn't hide his influences but instead synthesizes them into a sound that is all his own. And on new album, In This City They Call You Love, he might just have ascended into the ranks of the legends

Guitar World

"He was definitely a component part of what informed the vocals of Robert Plant and Ian Gillan": Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson on the bluesman who inspired the great rock singers

Chicago guitarist and singer-songwriter JB Lenoir avoidedblues cliches to tackle politics and social justice in his lyrics,influencing a whole generation of classic rock acts

Louder

Time to celebrate all our wonderful folk music festivals

Letters: Ian A Anderson laments the lack of media coverage of folk festivals across England in favour of one in Cambridge. Plus a letter from Joel Griffiths

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Cambridge folk festival review – Robert Plant thrills, Peggy Seeger inspires and Oysterband rock

The Led Zeppelin frontman’s latest band, Saving Grace, riffs on country, folk, rock and blues, but the weekend belongs to female American singer-songwriters

The Guardian - UK

Jerry Miller, influential Moby Grape guitarist who Eric Clapton called the “best guitar player in the world”, has died aged 81

Jerry Miller was friends with Jimi Hendrix, inspired Led Zeppelin and was a trailblazing player in San Francisco's thriving '60s music scene

Guitar World

"It's nice to be here in Vienna. You've even got some good groupies!": Previously unseen Led Zeppelin footage finds Robert Plant in a playful mood

The rare footage comes from Led Zeppelin's show at the Stadhalle in Vienna, Austria, during their 1973 European tour

Louder

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Robert Plant, and Sting once recorded in this mid-century modern home – it's now on sale for $925K

This historic Topanga property perfectly employs a rustic material for a cozy, minimalist home – however, it was formerly a base for music legends

Homes & Gardens

The rock musicians battling against AI: "If they can do it to Steve and they can do it to me, what's next? How far will they go?"

Exclusive: Peter Frampton and Jerry Shirley on the attempts by the owners of the Steve Marriott estate to replicate the singer's voice with AI – and why they're determined to fight it

Louder

“Jimmy Page said, ‘Wow, I love the way you play that song.’ I was like, ‘God, I could die now’”: Heart’s Nancy Wilson on their long road to the top, grunge friends – and that cover of Stairway to Heaven

The band might have landed in the ’70s, but Nancy Wilson is inspiring more players than ever in 2024 –just glance at Instagram

Guitar World

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss release mesmerising cover of When The Levee Breaks

Plant and Krauss's hypnotic version of When The Levee Breaks arrives with the duo's North American tour already underway

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The Canberra Times

Why Aussie supergroup have been given a Stairway To Heaven hall pass

ARC return to tackle Led Zeppelin's most popular album, IV.

Louder

Robert Plant once pledged money to a radio station that promised never to play Stairway To Heaven ever again

Robert Plant: He's not like other rock stars

Louder

"It sounds like someone trying to sound like someone trying to sound like Steve Marriott": Rock legends line up to protest release of AI-assisted Humble Pie recordings

Robert Plant, David Gilmour, Peter Frampton and more have added their voices to a growing chorus of disapproval

Louder

Robert Plant loves them. So does Joe Bonamassa: Meet Ferris & Sylvester, the award-wining folk-blues rock'n'rollers with a psychedelic soul

Think: Johnny Cash and June Carter, with balls

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“It takes me into the condition that I like best of all, to be the hunter, the student, the geek”: Robert Plant on the record he likes to start his day with

The ex-Led Zep icon has a compilation that takes him back to early blues trailblazers

Louder

Robert Plant is reportedly working on a new version of a Led Zeppelin classic for a "top-secret project"

Mystery surrounds the song (or is it 'songs'?) recorded during the session in Wolverhampton this week

Louder

In what's turning out to be a bumper year for Led Zeppelin fans, more unseen live footage has emerged

The previously unseen film, shot in Ohio in 1975, was discovered in the archives of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Guitar World

“B.C. Rich guitars were God back then. They weren’t like a Strat or a Les Paul – they were something different. They had so much power”: Lita Ford on her trailblazing guitar journey – and that time she nearly joined Led Zeppelin

Ever since she lied about her age to save for her first electric guitar, Lita Ford has been all about lead and leading. She looks back at life-changing encounters with Tony Iommi and Ritchie Blackmore, and explains why Kemper profiling is like “putting a Rolls Royce into a Volkswagen body”

Louder

"We locked the doors, then called security. Skip arrived in a taxi, with an axe, in his pyjamas": The wild genius of Skip Spence

Moby Grape co-founder Skip Spence wrote his album Oar in a psychiatric ward after threatening his bandmates with an axe. Years after his death, artists still acknowledge its influence

Louder

"Jimmy's very lucky to be even playing tonight": Watch an ailing Jimmy Page lead Led Zeppelin through a truncated show as unseen live footage emerges

Rare live footage from Chicago in 1977 finds Led Zeppelin frustrating fans with a six-song set

Guitar World

“Plant let us know he usually hated people’s covers of Stairway, but he liked that one. Jimmy Page goes, ‘You nailed the guitar part!’” That time Heart performed Stairway to Heaven in front of Led Zeppelin – and reduced Robert Plant to tears

When Led Zeppelin were awarded the Kennedy Center Honors in 2012, they were treated to an emotional rendition of their 1971 classic, performed by Ann and Nancy Wilson with the help of John Bonham's son

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