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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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“I hit the drum maybe five times. That was it. Concorde flights, 14 days in a 5-star hotel. The most expensive bit of drumming in history”: When stars of Duran Duran and Chic formed a decadent ’80s supergroup to rock out like Led Zeppelin

“I had to be, like, strapped to the desk if I was gonna get a bass line finished," John Taylor said

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“Wrapping this era-defining talent and power in a cloak of mystique only supercharges the legacy”: Jimmy Page or Tony Iommi? A heated debate over who is the best guitarist

Two Classic Rock writers go toe-to-toe over the Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath guitar legends

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"We haven’t adjusted it for the taste of modern kids. This is how it's meant to be heard": An interview with the makers of Becoming Led Zeppelin

As Becoming Led Zeppelin continues to take the world by storm, we talk to the duo who put it all together

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“Who’s Jimmy Page? Never heard of him!”: The joke that backfired on a band that sounded a whole lot like Led Zeppelin

“Of course it was meant ironically…”

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“It stands out for being HEAVY!”: Jerry Cantrell reveals his favourite Led Zeppelin song

Plus: what he learned from Jimmy Page

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"Imagine if Guns N' Roses were the worst band you've ever heard": How hardcore punk titans Discharge went glam metal and sabotaged their own career

Allegedly inspired by Led Zeppelin, punk icons Discharge released Grave New World in 1986... and never really recovered

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"There's nothing wrong with the Cactus debut - it's just that so many other albums circa 1970 did the same things better": Cactus's first album showed they had the chops but not the songs

What do you get if you mix men from Vanilla Fudge, Amboy Dukes and Mitch Ryder’s Detroit Wheels? The first album from Cactus

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“There’d be three numbers in the set; Dave Swarbrick would go berserk with his Echoplex and wah-wah. Especially in America, with substances being consumed”: The origins of Fairport Convention

The folk-rock pioneers’ 80s resurgence was no less unlikely than their earlier years, as they meandered towards success and influence

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“I know Pagey made me mix the outro section half a dozen times: ‘Not enough of me, dear boy! Not enough of me, make me louder!’” – Andy Johns on the challenges of engineering Led Zeppelin's Rock And Roll

In 2011 the acclaimed engineer revealed some of the realities behind making Led Zeppelin IV: "John’s got his hi-hat nearly all the way open and that was bleeding all over the place"

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"I did all that Hammer Of The Gods stuff – I lived Hammer Of The Gods!": Robert Plant looks back

In 2010, Robert Plant talked to Classic Rock about the Band Of Joy album, the chances of a Led Zeppelin reunion, and musical anthropology

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Engineer Andy Johns on recording and mastering Led Zep IV: “I put the tape on and the first song goes by and sounds bloody awful. Then the second one comes along and that’s really horrid, too... Pagey should’ve fired me at that point"

"Pagey was going on about seeing ghosts on the stairs and we were like, ‘Oh yeah right, Jimmy!’"

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"Zeppelin wasn’t safe, but we had such a following that virtually everything was accepted" - How Robert Plant made peace with the end of Led Zeppelin

In 1982, Robert Plant gave his first ever post-Led Zeppelin interview, and Classic Rock's Geoff Barton was the man with the tape recorder

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Days of thunder: the triumph and tragedy of John Bonham

John Bonham’s drumming powered Led Zeppelin like the engine of a battleship, but his death in 1980 did for his band. This is his story

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