Speaking of Led Zeppelin for me is like a wing to touch the heart. They were and are the most important British rock group ever. It 's a myth that resists almost forty years impervious to trends and generational change. Was formed in 1968 and disbanded in 1980, the year of the tragic death of drummer, with his usual training: Jimmy Page (guitar), Robert Plant (vocals, harmonica), John Paul Jones (bass, mandolin and keyboards) and John Bonham (drums). Their exciting recordings (two hundred million records sold!) Album with ten officers and an endless series of collections without counting the live and unreleased bootleg (unauthorized and unofficial recordings, containing recordings of concerts, evidence in the recording studio or radio recordings and television). Led Zeppelin I probably will go down in history for an individual prior to, hard to match, contributing massively to the evolution of rock music, drawing liberally from the blues-rock and blues repertoire of 50 and 60 years before, and folk music from Eastern Europe onwards. Yet, their sound is completely fresh and revolutionary, which will leave indelible marks in the future of rock'n'roll. And this is the size of the Zeppelin, who have been able to reach where other British bands before them had only tried to arrivare.Tutto was born of the fertile mind of Jimmy Page and after an apprenticeship as a session man bands and artists with a huge reputation (The Who, Joe Cocker and Nico) is playing with the Yardbirds, another historic English education at the time. So were "recruited" in chronological order, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant and John "Bonzo" Bonami. True fifth member of the group will be the most faithful manager Peter Grant . After a tour in Scandinavia, where the future went Zeppelin to get on well realized their enormous potential. ... We started to laugh, to the delight or the awareness of what the four of us could do together ... tell years after Jimmy Page. They decided to change name to Led Zeppelin (corruption of Lead Zeppelin, "the lead zeppelin"). Immediately after the tour, January 13, 1969, they released their first album of the group, simply titled "Led Zeppelin". The songs are characterized by a combination of influences, blues, folk and rock combined with a heavy style, made it one of the most important recordings in the development of key hard rock, forcing the group to the international market, especially in the U.S., where sales record were second only to the Beatles. In the same year they released their second album, "Led Zeppelin II," in which the group has developed the manual as a sort of hard rock. The opening track, Whole Lotta Love, opens with an aggressive guitar riff, followed by support of small and, in ascending order, by the intervention of voice and drums, the piece can be described as an emblem of the musical style of group. This album was also called by the fans because the bomber brown color and image of the zeppelin in the foreground. Surely the hardest of all the albums remained atop the American charts for years. For the recording of their third album, "Led Zeppelin III", the group he retired to "Bron-Yr-Aur", a secluded mansion in Wales, which was not even available electricity. The fourth disc was always the favorite of Jimmy Page and one of the most important and mythical history of the Zeppelin. On this album, merged all the Celtic-folk influences that characterized "Led Zeppelin III" and hard rock elements of the brown bomber. Officially untitled album is now usually referred to as Led Zeppelin IV, Runes Album "or" Zoso ". The incision includes hard rock songs like Black Dog, mystic-folk flavor of The Battle of Evermore or pieces containing a mix of different genres, such as Stairway to Heaven , probably their most famous song. In 1973 released their fifth album, Houses of the Holy, featured songs from the long-term, unprecedented use of the synthesizer, and the significant contribution of Jones in the arrangement of strings. Songs like The Song Remains the Same, The Rain Song and No Quarter is imposed as classic rock. In 1975 he went to the Swan Song label "Physical Graffiti", their first double album. The album included songs recorded for the last three albums, but not included in the same, and new songs. The group proved once again to sweep up a variety of musical genres, as in the melodic Ten Years Gone, Black Country Woman in acoustics, and nell'orientaleggiante Kashmir. Shortly after the release of "Physical Graffiti", all disks Led Zeppelin came together in the ranking of the 200 best-selling albums, that never happened before in the world of rock. Unable to resume live performances (throughout his career have made a host of live concerts), the group returned to the studio to record their seventh album: Presence. Although the album was awarded platinum status, many saw it as a product not up to the previous ones. In late 1976 came out in theaters the film "The Song Remains the Same" was released and its soundtrack, the result of assembly of various recordings made at concerts in 1973 at Madison Square Garden. During the summer of 1978, the group returned to the recording studio for the recording of "In Through the Out Door." Their ninth album included songs in rock style as In The Evening, the tropicaleggiante Fool in the Rain, All My Love "and the ballad Carouselambra, trying to get closer to the progressive genre. But September 25, 1980, shortly before leaving for the United States, John Bonham came to the tests completely drunk, he continued to drink all night at a party at the home of Jimmy and he was put to sleep in a room. The next morning he was found suffocated in his own vomit. The press spoke of 40 ingested doses of vodka. After the death of Bonham, the other three components, with a press release issued December 4, 1980, made known the decision to want to stop the artistic activity under the name Led Zeppelin.
Even today, almost 30 years since their breakup, the airship Lead Led Zeppelin continues to remain at high altitude.
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