Was Led Zeppelin about to commit a career-ending mistake with its fourth album? Fifty years and over 30 million LP sales later, the idea seems laughable. Yet that’s what Atlantic Records warned the ...

Ever on the lookout for new ideas to present Led Zeppelin in a different light, the art-schooled Jimmy Page came up with the idea of an unpronounceable title made up of four distinct symbols, or runes ...

Early in the band’s epic run, Led Zeppelin made it clear they would play by their own rules. By the time the group released Led Zeppelin II (1969), a policy of no TV appearances and no singles was in ...

Robert Plant described the process of releasing Led Zeppelin’s fourth album as a “kind of Spinal Tap thing” and admitted he still isn’t sure what to call it. The 1971 LP has come to be known as Led ...

When I was in sixth and seventh grades, a group of us studied the works of Led Zeppelin as though they were holy texts. We debated whether or not the album “Led Zeppelin IV” was properly titled “Led ...