Tag Archives: Led Zeppelin

RIP Storm Thorgerson: 10 Of His Best Album Covers

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on April 19th, 2013

It’s a mark of the strength of vision in the graphic designer Storm Thorgerson’s work – both solo and with the design collective Hipgnosis – that the news of his passing should have created waves of sympathy from rock ...

10 Great British Bands Get Shredded

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on April 4th, 2013

(Pic courtesy of http://thehighnotedotnet.com/)

Let’s not spoil this with too much talk. Suffice to say there are 10 videos here, featuring some of the greatest musicans that Britain has produced. Only, they don’t really sound all that magnificent here.

Make Your Minds Up, Led Zeppelin!

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on February 19th, 2013

Led Zeppelin (l-r John Paul Jones, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page - AP Images)

Hey, you know us. We try not to get involved in too many of those ‘he said, and then I said’ showbiz stories, because they’re often blown up from cryptic comments issued from the side of a star’s mouth in an ...

Led Zeppelin Reunites On-Screen

By Brigid Brown | Posted on September 13th, 2012

Robert Plant rocking out in 2007. (Photo via AP)

Have you been sitting in your room listening to Led Zeppelin over and over pondering when they’ll make their return? Well the wait is over.

Led Zeppelin Reunion Cash Funds Oxford University Scholarship

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on March 1st, 2012

The proceeds from the reunion concert Led Zeppelin gave in 2007 have gone towards a £26 million scholarship at Oxford University, funding students who wish to study the humanities.

Five Great British Nerdy Pop Stars

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 21st, 2011

Pop stars are supposed to be beings made of pure charm and sexual energy. They need a fulsome knowledge of the work of Isaac Asimov like they need tooth decay.

Five Great British Drummers

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on July 13th, 2011

It’s almost certainly unfair to trim this list down to just five players. A good band cannot become a great band without a great drummer (just ask the Foo Fighters, they’ve got two), and so for every great British band there ...

Robert Plant Annoyed By Led Zeppelin Comeback Chatter

By MacKenzie Wilson | Posted on January 7th, 2011

To the Led Zeppelin fans out there who are still holding out hope for a reunion, cool it already. Robert Plant isn’t interested.

Led Zeppelin To Play NYC For the First Time in 35 Years?

By Kevin Wicks | Posted on December 12th, 2007

Next stop on the Led Zeppelin reunion tour in ’08: Madison Square Garden? If true, it would be their first show at the New York venue since 1973.

Anglo For Your Ear: Led Zeppelin Reunited

By Kevin Wicks | Posted on September 12th, 2007

It’s already old news, but it’s exciting nonetheless: Led Zeppelin‘s back together! As reported months ago, it will be a tribute to the late Ahmet Ertegun, the Atlantic Records founder who passed away last year.