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
Jimmy Page: Guitar
Robert Plant:
Voice
John Bonham:
Drums
John Paul Jones: Bass
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…
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“Led Zeppelin” 1969,
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“Led Zeppelin II” 1969
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“Led Zeppelin III” 1970
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“Led Zeppelin IV” 1971
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“House of the Holy” 1973
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“Physical graffiti” 1975
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“Presence” 1976
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“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…
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