LED ZEPPELIN

INTRODUCTION

Led Zeppelin is the creator of the first kind of Hard Rock. Their guitar was strong and they had sharp melodies. Some people say that they did many satanic rituals in a house that Jimmy Page, the guitarist, bought in the beginnings of the seventies, but we’ll talk about this profoundly in a few minutes… Now let’s talk about Led Zeppelin:

MEMBERS OF THE BAND
Jimmy Page: Guitar

Robert Plant: Voice

John Bonham: Drums

John Paul Jones: Bass

HISTORY

The band started in 1968, when Jimmy Page broke with his ex-band, “The Yardbirds”, and he wanted to start a new band called “The New Yardbirds”, but this name has some legal problems so they called “Lead Zeppelin”, for avoid pronunciation problems between the UK and USA they got out the “a”, the result was “Led Zeppelin” (the name comes from a joke which says that something will fall as a lead zeppelin, they’ve seen it funny I suppose…).

Jimmy Page was searching for a voice and a friend recommended a guy called Robert Plant who plays in a hippie band called “The band of Joy”. Jimmy went to a Robert’s band concert and he liked Robert so he asked him to sing with him. Robert agreed and he told Jimmy that he knows about a drummer and a bassist who maybe could be of the band too. Those men where John Bonham (drummer) and John Paul Jones (bassist).

Atlantic Records gave them 200.000 dollars to produce their first album. The record company wanted to contract the maximum number of hard rock bands. The band was complete and they have money, so, they realised their first album, called “Led Zeppelin”, in only one week.

The other discs sold very well, they have sold more than 300 million albums around the world, and only 111 million in the USA.

They became very famous and they published more albums, until 1980, when John Bonham died accidentally. The rest of the band tried to do some collaborations with other musicians but that was not the same…

FAMOUS ALBUMS

-         “Led Zeppelin” 1969,

-         “Led Zeppelin II” 1969

-         “Led Zeppelin III” 1970

-         “Led Zeppelin IV” 1971

-         “House of the Holy” 1973

-         “Physical graffiti” 1975

-         “Presence” 1976

-         “In Through the Out Door” 1979

CURIOSITIES

As I said before, now we’ll talk about the “satanic mansion”:

Jimmy Page was obsessed with the famous occultist Aleister Crowley, who had a house near the Loch Ness. There was the rumour that Aleister made rituals related with black magic and Satanism in this house, Jimmy had money so he bought the mansion in 1971.

The zone where the house was, the Loch Ness; the Jimmy’s obsession for the black magic and the “satanic messages” that were on the songs (paranoia of the people) supplied that the people thought that the band done satanic rituals there.

No one will never know what did they do in this house…