Tag: Led Zeppelin

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There’s a conspiracy theory going around that I think is really stupid, and yet it is being promoted by some whose intelligence I respect. I now feel the need to publicly explain at length why this theory is nonsense. (more…)

Robert Plant (left) and Jimmy Page (right), Chicago, 1977.

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Someone told me there’s a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair

— “Going to California”

Led Zeppelin’s back catalog already includes songs like “Ramble On” from the rocky Led Zeppelin II and the melancholic classic “Tangerine” from the flower-powered III. (more…)

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“My favorite singer out of all the British girls that ever were.”

— Robert Plant

I first came across the name Sandy Denny on the liner notes of the classic Led Zeppelin IV. (more…)

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“There’s a feeling I get when I look to the West.”–“Stairway to Heaven,” Led Zeppelin IV

It was with the advent of Frenchman Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile (1762) that a direct link was first made between national culture and the simplicity of peasant life. (more…)

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I’m very happy to take WN’s suggestion and add a few words to Mr. Colin Liddell’s excellent article on the Rolling Stones’ classic Their Satanic Majesties Request — which I was glad to see since, for some reason, I seem to have not done Satanic Majesties justice in my own past ruminations, although on reflection, inspired by Mr. Liddell, it seems to have a large enough role.  (more…)

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Editor’s Note:

The following essay by Julian Lee was stimulated by the discussion of our reprint of his “In Praise of the White Singing Voice.” (more…)