Bernard MacMahon assumes we know a lot about Led Zeppelin. He’d guess that most fans have listened to the riffs and record sides thousands of times, tracked down the bootlegs, scoured YouTube for ...

When filmmaker Bernard MacMahon began thinking about making a documentary about the early days of Led Zeppelin, he was warned against it. The British director recalls, “We had a couple of people ...

Shortly after forming in London in 1968, Led Zeppelin bombed as gig audiences held their ears. To kindle British interest, their manager, Peter Grant, booked a brief American tour. As Robert Plant, ...

English rock group Led Zeppelin posed sitting on car bonnet during their first photo shoot for WEA records in London in December 1968. L-R John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Bonham.

The guitar player was a London session man, whose gigs included elevator muzak sessions that sickened him; he worked on the song “Goldfinger” with the bass player, who also did the arrangements on “To ...