If Led Zeppelin had quit after its first two albums, the group might have gone down as a dynamic hard-rock group with a real feel for the blues. For his part, Robert Plant wasn’t trying to hide his ...

A choirmaster, organist and expert in many archaic music styles, John Paul Jones also happened to play bass guitar in Led Zeppelin, the biggest heavy rock band there has ever been or ever will be.

For Led Zeppelin, the music tended to be more important than the lyrics. Need proof? Only one album came with a lyric sheet. At the same time, Zep’s tunes would have been supremely boring without ...