Led zeppelin's Band History

The band was founded by guitarist jimmy page in 1968. Page first joined Yardbirds as a bass player in Yardbirds, but soon became a double guitarist with jeff baker, the original guitarist of the recruit, and became the lead guitarist of the recruit after Baker left the team. The band "Recruits" is on the verge of disintegration after continuous performances and recordings. Page once had the idea of forming a "superstar band", in which Page and Baker played the guitar, Keith Moon and John Entwistle of WHO were the drummers and bassists respectively, and the singer was Steve Winwood of Traffic Band or Little Face Band. Although Page, Baker and Moon once recorded a song called Beck's Bolero (later included in jeff baker's first solo album of the same name), this super band has not yet been formed. But in the meantime, bassist john paul jones expressed his intention to be the guitarist of Page's future band.

At the same time, two other members of the new recruit quit the band, and Page and Chris Dreha, the bassist of the new recruit, started to form a new band to perform in Scandinavia. Singer Terry Reed turned down Page's invitation to join the band and recommended robert plant. In addition, plante, the new singer of the band, recommended John burnham, a drummer who worked happily with him. Chris Draga quit the band and became a photographer (his picture will appear on the back cover of the band's future debut album). At this time, john paul jones contacted Page, hoping to fill the position of bassist, and was welcomed and trusted by Page.

The band was temporarily named New Yardbirds of New Yardbirds. After completing the performance in northern Europe, the band began to conceive a new band name. Led zeppelin (or [[Ryder Zeplin. The name comes from a joke in Keith Moon (including John enquist's suggestion). Moon once described that Page's imaginary "superstar band" would collapse as quickly as the pilot led zeppelin. In the end, the band adopted this name. In order to avoid people's similarity in pronunciation of Leed and Lead, the band officially changed its name to led zeppelin. Shortly after their Nordic performance, the band's first album of the same name, led zeppelin I, was released on 1969 65438+ 10/2. This work, which combines blues and rock music perfectly and is full of exaggerated and distorted timbre, eventually became the pioneering work of heavy metal music. Although many of the band's works in this period originated from the adaptation of blues classics, other songs such as "Broken Communication" still showed the band's unique and heavy timbre. The song "One Side of Black Mountain" shows Page's exquisite acoustic guitar skills. The folk song "Baby I'm Leaving You" was also carefully arranged by the band by alternately playing acoustic guitar and electric guitar. The overnight fame of the first album not only laid the foundation for the band's legend, but also enabled the band to successfully enter the American market.

The second album named "Led Zeppelin II" came out at the end of the same year, basically continuing the overall style of the first album. The opening song "The Love of All Lolita" is based on the improvisational repetition of Bonham Rhythm Department created by Jones, which is very amazing and becomes the representative song of the band. Led Zeppelin II even surpassed the success of the first album, occupying the first place in the British and American album charts.

Page and plante are both blues fans; In their first two albums, "You Shocked Me" and "All Love" were covers or adaptations of the works of the blues legend Willie Dixon. (Later, the band was accused of infringement, and it was not until 15 that the band paid compensation. Page once said in an interview: "Rolling Stone is Chuck Berry's son, and our father is a howling wolf. The music inspiration of the band was also inspired by American rock pioneers fats domino and little richard. Besides, the band often plays Elvis Presley's country rock music. In led zeppelin's performances, which often last more than three hours, the band will improvise the soul of james brown or Motown, and the funk band that Jones and burnham are good at. In order to create their third album "led zeppelin III", they deliberately lived in a remote Welsh village-Bloom-Il-Orr. Compared with the previous two albums, this album has more acoustic instruments featuring Celtic and English traditional folk songs, which once again shows Page's versatile guitar playing skills. (The album cover design of the album is also very special. ) 1970, 1 1 month, led zeppelin's Atlantic record company released a single called "Song of Immigrants" against the band's wishes. (The single "Love All over Los Angeles" released by Atlantic Records earlier also cut the length of the song. ) The back of this single record records songs that are not included in the album. Hey, what can I do? In order to maintain the integrity of the album, the band has always opposed the release of singles; Moreover, in order to resist the bad influence of TV programs on its music quality, the band has always refused TV interviews, and the band lacking TV exposure can only communicate with fans through excellent live performances. The band's diverse musical elements are perfectly integrated in their fourth album. This unnamed album is only marked with four mysterious symbols representing the four members of the band, so this album released on 197 1 year1month 8 is called the unknown album, LED Zeppelin, Zoso, Runes or four symbols. This album includes the hard rock work "Black Dog" (the title comes from the nameless black dog that haunts the recording studio); The eternal battle; In a psychedelic style; Naturally, there is also the masterpiece "Ladder", which combines rigidity and softness. Stairs to Heaven is the band's most famous work, which has been repeatedly played by rock radio stations for decades, but such a great work has never been released as a single. The album ends with "When the levee breaks", which is adapted from the work of Memphis/Kansas blues musician Joe McCaughey. The drum music in the song is peculiar and prominent, even appearing in the sampling of contemporary rock music and rap music several years later.

The band's next studio project, the Houses of the Holy, has more experiments, stronger melodies, longer works and more use of Mellotron electronic synthesizers. No Quarter and D'yer Mak'er in reggae style (including LY's favorite rain song) have become famous works, and this album also represents the band's ambition to hit the peak of rock music. The performance of band 1973 in Tampa Stadium, Florida, USA, surpassed the audience record of The Beatles 1965 with 56,800 spectators. A few years later, the film released by the band recorded the grand occasion when all three tickets of Madison Square Garden in new york were sold out.

After the release of Physical Graffiti, six albums released by led zeppelin entered the top 200 albums of Billboard at the same time. The band started a new American Allegro performance and broke the audience record again. At the end of the same year, the band performed five performances at Ors Palace in England, which were sold out (in this performance, the band used a big screen monitor on the stage for the first time, and some performances were released on DVD 28 years later). There is no doubt that led zeppelin has reached the peak of his band career and became the greatest rock band in the world at that time.

Just like the band's great reputation on the stage and in the recording studio, they are also famous for their extravagance and debauchery outside the stage. The band owned its own private jet (nicknamed "Star Boat") and often rented the whole hotel, and eventually became the protagonist of many famous rock lace news. Many band groupies published stories about their dissolute lives with band members, but the band members denied most of these stories. After the tour of 1973, led zeppelin had a quiet time of 1974, without releasing a new album or performing. But one thing is very important. They set up their own record company "Swan Song", and all the subsequent albums were released by themselves. Besides, Dave edmonds, Bad Company, Pretty Things and several other bands released albums in record companies. Entity Graffiti, two albums,1released in February, 975, which is also the first album released by led zeppelin in Song of the Swan. The album was an immediate success after its release, ranking first in the charts in the United States and Britain. At the end of the summer of 75, just as led zeppelin was preparing to hold a large-scale tour in the United States, robert plant and his wife had a serious car accident while vacationing in Greece. The tour was cancelled, and it took 75 years for the 75th factory to recover.

Led zeppelin didn't come back to life until the spring of 1976, and released the album Being. Although the album topped the charts in the United States and Britain as soon as it came out, it was ignored by music critics. Similarly, 1976 released the live video of the concert "Singing Still", which was not accepted by the music critics. Finally, the band began to tour the United States in the spring of 1977. However, two months after the performance, robert plant's six-year-old son Calaque died of a stomach infection. Led zeppelin immediately stopped the tour, and did not say whether the tour schedule would be rescheduled, which aroused widespread concern about the band's future. For now, it seems that led zeppelin is really finished. Plants were isolated in the second half of 1977 and most of 1978. It was not until the summer of 1978 that led zeppelin began to make a new album. They started recording in the polar studio in Aba, Sweden. A year later, they held a short tour in Europe, including Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Austria. 1979 In August, led zeppelin held two large-scale performances in Knebworth, which was their last performance in Britain.

Their eighth studio album "Out of the Door" was finally released in September 1979. This is another album that topped the charts in the United States and Britain at the same time. 1980 In May, led zeppelin began their last tour in Europe. In September, led zeppelin began rehearsing for the upcoming American tour at his home in Jimmy Page. Tragedy happened again: On September 25th, john bonham died in his own bed-after a whole day of binge drinking, he was suffocated by his own vomit (so similar to Bon Scott of AC/DC, poor drunkard). 1980 65438+In February, led zeppelin announced its dissolution, and they could not do without Wen Han.

After the dissolution, all the remaining band members started their own businesses. John paul jones never released a solo album, and he started his production again. After making the soundtrack for Death Wish II, Jimmy Page edited the unpublished songs of led zeppelin, and the ending part was released at the end of 1982. In the same year, robert plant released his first solo album, Photos at the Age of Eleven.

From 65438 to 0984, plante and Page made a brief reorganization in the all-star plastic band the Honeydrippers. After releasing an EP with Sweet Drop, plante returned to her personal path, and Page founded the company with paul rogers, the former lead singer of "Bad Company".

1985, led zeppelin was temporarily reorganized due to living assistance, and at this time there were rumors that they would reorganize. In fact, the reorganization never came true.

1988, they got together again and attended the 25th anniversary concert of Atlanta Company. 1989, Page re-recorded an album of the band led zeppelin released by 1990. These four records are integrated into the best-selling albums in history.

1994, Peggy and plante reorganized the unplugged concert of MTV, so that they released an album called "Unplayed" in the autumn of 1994. Although this album has achieved platinum sales, the expected reorganization of led zeppelin has not yet been realized. In the following year, Page and plante held a successful international tour. ......

Although these activities repeatedly made fans feel that led zeppelin would appear in front of them again, it never came true. Maybe led zeppelin has really become an eternal legend. As an influential and professional rock band, whether they still exist or not, their music and spirit are enough to make them enter the immortal kingdom. (transferred from paranoid metal mesh)