There's a line that can be drawn between Led Zeppelin's first four albums and their last four. From 1969 through 1971 -- the period that spans their self-titled debut through their untitled fourth ...

Complete BBC Sessions includes all of the original two-disc compilation from 1997, plus a third disc of newly unearthed performances. The above take on "Communication Breakdown" is actually one of two ...

Top Gear — the music show, not the car-focused TV reboot — was one of England’s premier radio shows. As such, it attracted the cream of the crop when it came to talent. The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, the ...

As we could always use some Led Zeppelin news, here is some Led Zeppelin-related news to get your Thursday going. First off, there’s a sweet new Zeppelin reissue on the way — the BBC Sessions will be ...

On June 29th, 1969, the British DJ John Peel opened Top Gear, his progressive-rock program on the BBC’s Radio One, by spinning the Rolling Stones’ new single “Honky Tonk Women.” Peel then introduced ...

Since Led Zeppelin had the final say on every one of its studio recordings, fans always got what the band wanted released — and not an outtake more. Before all those bonus tracks emerged with the ...

Power and pleasure see-saw for more than three hours in the expanded Complete BBC Sessions. This is Zeppelin from 1969-1971, working through the core material of their first four albums (and taking ...

I call it the "Led Zeppelin" problem. Many fans, both aging and youthful, sort of learned the band in reverse. They started, often enough, with the fourth album, which has as its centerpiece "Stairway ...

Led Zeppelin's 1997 collection "BBC Sessions" is getting an expanded re-release next month. The set will now include a third disc of eight previously unreleased tracks. The Zeppelin original "Sunshine ...

The 1970s represented what BBC Music Magazine recently called rock's "golden decade," an era when albums became ambitious artistic statements and bands evolved into global cultural forces. In a new ...