Led Zeppelin (Digitally Remastered) - Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin and the blues boom The stars of what was often referred to as the British blues boom of the late 1960s were John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac (long before their re-invention as a transatlantic pop-rock outfit), Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Led Zeppelin came in at the end with the release of this debut album, at the beginning of 1969. The music on it had been rehearsed and road-tested by the group on a brief Scandinavian tour, and it was recorded in around 36 hours, paid for by guitarist Jimmy Page and their manager Peter Grant before their record deal with ... more

In the turbulent yet magical era of the 60's where psychadelia was like a fine wine or a soothing drug, while Hendrix's teeth playing guitar music and on stage guitar burnings were a retro occurance there was a more classical yet original feel to the 60's. The Yardbirds were one of the pioneering rock bands of the 60's but were overshadowed by the success of Hendrix,the stones and the beatles,they consisted of two main British figureheads, on the bass there was Jimmy Page,on the lead guitar was best mate Jeff Beck. After tremendous success and fine musical blending and experimentation Beck and ... more

While they were receiving too much praise for originality at the time, Led Zeppelin would later be heralded amongst the founders of the Heavy Metal and Hard Rock movement that carried over from the late sixties into the early seventies. Their début self-entitled record was highly-instrumental in setting the foundations in having such high praise. Rolling Stone initially brushed the record off as a release without real creativity, before the Blues-Rock sound morphed into Metal completely and the music world changed forever. Subsequently, it’s no surprise it was later claimed by Rolling Stone to ... more