Led Zeppelin split up today 40 years ago

Apparently they were only in it for the money, sex and drugs, lol.

Jimmy Page was the reason I picked up a guitar, great band, so many good tracks but I think when the levee breaks is my favourite

ednwireland wrote: »

digs out relayer and tales of topgraphic oceans by yes :D

Haha..... I've got them all

I went through a massive phase in my teens and still dig them out occasionally. LZ II was my favourite, closely followed by LZ I. III was a pretentious folky thing and IV had good numbers but no album coherence. Later albums left me cold and Kashmir is the only track I bother with there.

Great band and all but they did some shocking robbin'. Original lads had incorrect skin colour or something. Didn't get paid what they were owed.

Black dog

In My Time of Dying is another belter.

Allinall wrote: »

TOTP will be eternally grateful to LZ.
Best intro music. Ever.

C.C.S. are best known for their instrumental version of Led Zeppelin's 1969 track "Whole Lotta Love", which entered the UK Singles Chart in 1970, and was used as the theme music for the BBC pop programme Top of the Pops ("TOTP") for most of the 1970s, and, in a remixed version, between 1998 and 2003.

Collective Consciousness Society, more commonly known as C.C.S.

o1s1n wrote: »

One of the finest pieces of music ever written, that. Love the guitar strumming that almost sounds like a machine gun around when Plant starts doing his 'ooh ohhhh oh oh oh ohhhhhhhhhhh'

I grew up as a kid listening to Led Zeppelin via my parents, they brought me to see Page and Plant on the No Quarter tour in 1995 in The Point when I was 11. Blew my mind :eek:

Fantastic parenting. Version from Knebworth where Page is drenched in sweat wearing khakis, still manages to look cool. Michael Lee on drums was a colossus with Page & Plant .

My girlfriend at the time booked a two week break in Turkey that coincided with that date. I hated everyday of it.

Sugarlumps wrote: »

Fantastic parenting. Version from Knebworth where Page is drenched in sweat wearing khakis, still manages to look cool. Michael Lee on drums was a colossus with Page & Plant .

My girlfriend at the time booked a two week break in Turkey that coincided with that date. I hated everyday of it.

Ah yes, that's the one where you can clearly see Page is in the throws of heroin addiction, not a pick on him! Amazing performance though.

One of my dad's mates went to that gig, never stopped going on about it. I didn't get to watch it properly through until that Led Zeppelin concert DVD came out around 2003.

Jaysus I'd say you were absolutely raging you missed that gig! It was wall to wall Zeppelin tracks, the Egyptian band they had with them really added a cool extra layer.

Saying all of this via my 11 year old brain mind you, sure who knows how much of those memories are even real or not