A backstage beating in Oakland spiraled into cancellations, lawsuits, and a band pushed to its breaking point.
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Cherie Currie recalls a surprisingly gentlemanly Plant backstage in LA. Lita Ford remembers a wilder twist. Here’s what likely happened.
How a self taught kid from Redditch turned brute force, jazz finesse and huge drums into the most copied rock groove in history.
Jimmy Page vs Peter Frampton, compared where it counts: tone, technique, live power and lasting impact on rock guitar.
How a Victorian thatcher named Lot Long became the anonymous stick man on Led Zeppelin IV, and what his image really says about the band.
How a Free fanboy, a Zeppelin mastermind and the “voice of rock” built a decades‑long triangle of respect, rivalry and reinvention.
How Robert Plant’s first full Zeppelin lyric became a love letter to Maureen, echoed Hendrix, and quietly rewired the band’s sound around organ and harmony vocals.
Robert Plant’s furious defense of “Black Dog” reveals how Led Zeppelin turned a bar-band riff into rock’s most brilliantly “wrong” groove.
Far from stadium chaos, Jimmy Page now guards a Gothic London mansion, lives with poet Scarlett Sabet, and quietly reshapes his own myth.
Robert Plant once asked teenage shredder Lita Ford to replace John Paul Jones in Led Zeppelin. Here is the true story and what it could have meant.