FOUR of the BEST
Jun 08, 2021
3 minutes
Words: Joel McIver, Stuart Clayton, Dan Veall
Photography:
Getty
“We were told if we had a single we’d sell 800,000 copies. We said ‘no’ and sold 800,000 albums instead”
Anyone who enjoys the cranium-crushing sound of heavy metal and its slightly more refined accomplice, hard rock, owes a debt to Led Zeppelin. Alongside their contemporaries Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, Led Zep were one of the unholy trio of British rock bands responsible for the evolution of popular music into a heavier, more high-volume direction. Without these three acts, the music of a whole generation
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