Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The release of the Becoming Led Zeppelin documentary pushes several ...

Led Zeppelin formed in 1968, after a string of recommendations from local musicians led to a lineup of Jimmy Page, Robert ...

Bernard MacMahon assumes we know a lot about Led Zeppelin. He’d guess that most fans have listened to the riffs and record sides thousands of times, tracked down the bootlegs, scoured YouTube for ...

The members of Led Zeppelin were influential before they even formed a band together. For example, Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page played on one of the biggest songs from the British Invasion. He nearly ...

However, on IV, released in 1971, Led Zeppelin were ready to explore blues more curiously and with more historical closeness. The fourth studio album closes with “When The Levee Breaks,” which begins ...

While Led Zeppelin disbanded in 1980, the legacy the group created continues to inspire and entertain. Over the band’s time on stage, they released several albums and recorded hits like “Black Dog” ...

The first authorized biographical documentary to follow legendary rock band Led Zeppelin, “Becoming Led Zeppelin,” traces the group’s beginnings and legacy as the progenitors of hard rock. With ...

Led Zeppelin‘s Jimmy Page worked as a session musician before his career really took off. He played on one of the biggest pop songs to come out of the British Invasion. During that session, a pop star ...

It would probably be fair to say that live performing was the thing that propelled Led Zeppelin. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant said so themselves the first time the band spoke with Rolling Stone in 1975 ...

The first Led Zeppelin album, featuring its Hindenburg explosion artwork, is iconic. The band truly exploded onto the scene with the album, and were one of the heaviest groups making music. At the ...