Led Zeppelin - get a drive!
Led Zeppelin is a popular British band best known for their hit ‘Stairway to Heaven’ as well as for co-creating the music genre of heavy metal. Led Zeppelin was rock’s first real Heavy Metal band. Yet many of their fans were not even fans of metal music. They came about after guitarist Jimmy Page, (who was rock’s most sort after session man in the early and mid sixties) was left with what was the remains of theYardbirds. He had join the Yardbirds to record with them on what would be their final album, Little Games in 1967. In the spring of 1968, Page played lead guitar on Donovan’s song “Hurdy Gurdy Man” which also featured bassist John Paul Jones. Jones had heard rumors that the Yardbirds might break up and told Page he would like to be part of any new band he might put together. By the summer of ‘68 the Yardbirds’ frontman Keith Relf, along with James McCarty left the band leaving behind Page and bassist Chris Dreja with the rights to the name and obligation of fulfilling an upcoming fall tour. Page wanted to hire vocalist Terry Reid as Relf’s replacement, but Reid was still with Procol Harum and suggested Page check out his friend, Robert Plant, who was singing for a band called Hobbstweedle. Since their nine albums were recorded between 1968 and 1979, Led Zeppelin remains one of the most popular bands of all time, having sold more than 300 million records and millions of concert tickets worldwide.