Zep drummer John Bonham died on Sept. 25, 1980. A day of hard drinking as the band rehearsed for a North American tour led to him dying in his sleep. Jimmy Page revealed Led Zeppelin could never ...
When John Bonham died in September 1980, there was no future for Led Zeppelin as a working band. As John Paul Jones later put it, Bonham was not just the drummer; he was “a quarter” of Zeppelin (and a ...
The 1980s are not generally regarded as a great time for the band that was at that point formerly known as Led Zeppelin. In truth, they weren't a band during the Reagan era — they were the three ...
John Bonham's 1976 drum solo, recorded years after his famed "Moby Dick" solo, is among the favorites of many rock drummers.
Very few bands have fewer “deep cuts” than Led Zeppelin. With a paltry total of 73 album tracks over the course of their career (excluding 1982’s Coda compilation) and most of them becoming seminal ...