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News: Jason Bonham brings Physical Graffiti in full to Australian & NZ stages

Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening will bring its Physical Graffiti 50th anniversary tour to Australia, closing the world tour with full-album performances and a set drawing from across Led Zeppelin’s catalogue.

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Classic Album: Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti

When it came to Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin opted to make the biggest splash instead of the most impressive splash.

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Classic Album: Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin’s debut album was proof of concept for Jimmy Page, taking what Cream did with super-charged blues-rock, and just making it more slick and dynamic and marketing it directly…

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Not Forgotten: Led Zeppelin – In Through the Out Door

In Through the Out Door was no disaster, but you can’t help escape the feeling that it was just the start of something new for the band.

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Classic Album: Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin

The New Yardbirds doesn’t sound like a particularly promising prospect does it? If you plonk the word ‘New’ at the start of something, most of the time you’re setting someone…

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Classic Album: Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy

On the release of Houses of the Holy in 1973, there simply wasn’t a bigger band on the planet than Led Zeppelin. Over their first four albums they had perfected…

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Not Forgotten: Led Zeppelin – How the West Was Won

Legend has it that Led Zeppelin were the best live band of the 1970s. For far too long the only official example of this for those of us that weren’t…

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Classic Album: Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV

Down the decades certain albums have had so much praise heaped upon them by fans and critics alike, that it becomes almost impossible to be objective about them. If so…

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A Buyers Guide to Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin. You’ve heard of them right? They were quite good at that rock music thing back in the day and after years of putting it off their chief architect…

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Live: The Fruitful Earth – “Rising Sun” album launch at Servant Jazz Quarters

Dalston Kingsland, half-eight on a dreary Thursday night, the capital greasily covered with filthy spring rain. This is not at all in keeping with the spirit of the record we’re…

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