Led Zeppelin II -- which came out on Oct. 22, 1969 -- is one of their heaviest records and is credited with paving the way for many hard-rock bands to come. But there are also hints of the more ...

There's no more vital collection of fundamental rock n' roll riffs jam-packed onto one album than Led Zeppelin II, the second LP from a then-still-blossoming British blues-rock group called… By ...

What was the difference between Led Zeppelin and The Beatles? For one thing, Zep’s studio approach was far less tedious. You aren’t going to hear about Zep running through 100 takes of a song, as the ...

Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin II debuts at No. 93 on the U.K.’s Official Album Downloads chart, the band's first new entry on the tally in seven years. ENGLAND - 1969: Rock band 'Led Zeppelin' poses for ...

Page formed Led Zeppelin when his previous band, the Yardbirds, dissolved. That band’s manager asked Page for the group before the guitarist joined, but he initially declined and recommended his ...

Led Zeppelin had an incredible career, which makes picking a best year especially difficult, and a few strong contenders are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The release of the Becoming Led Zeppelin documentary pushes several ...

When the album came out 40 years ago, Rolling Stone critic John Mendelsohn wasn’t exactly glowing in his 1969 review of the album, writing tongue-in-cheekily, “I’ll concede that until you’ve listened ...

“On the second LP, you can really hear the group identity coming together,” Jimmy Page recalled years after its release. While Zeppelin recorded their first album in three weeks after a single, ...

It’s been over fifty years since Led Zeppelin formed and amazingly, we’re still talking about them. They were a collection of musical geniuses that people all over the world fell in love with. An ...

On a pleasantly warm, rain-free Tuesday of May 13, 1969, British rock band Led Zeppelin made non-contiguous U.S. history as one of the first bands of its kind to perform in Hawaii. It was the band’s ...