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Chris Dreja, co-founder of influential English rock band the Yardbirds and co-writer on many of the band’s memorable songs, died at 79. His death was announced by his former bandmate Jimmy Page. “I heard today of the passing of musician Chris Dreja, who passionately played with the iconic Yardbirds, on …

Terry Reid, the artists’ artist who was revered by the likes of Aretha Franklin and Mick Jagger, and nearly became the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, has died, The Guardian reports. He was 75. A rep for the British musician confirmed his death. An exact cause of death was not …

Singer-songwriter Jake Holmes has revived a long-dormant battle with Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page over the songwriting credits for “Dazed and Confused.” Holmes’ new copyright infringement suit alleges that he has not received proper credit or royalties for early versions of “Dazed and Confused” performed by the Yardbirds, including a recording …

This interview was originally published on February 23, 2015. By the time Led Zeppelin released Physical Graffiti in 1975, they no longer needed to prove anything. “All of us knew that it was a monumental piece of work, just because of the various paths that we’d trodden along to get …

Fresh off of their Rock Hall nomination, the Black Crowes will revisit their time performing alongside Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page with a 25th-anniversary edition of their live album Live at the Greek. For the reissue, the original 20-song double album has been expanded to 36 tracks, each one newly remixed …

The new documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin charts the origins and early days of the influential rock & roll band through new interviews with surviving members Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones, and a never-before-heard archival interview with late drummer John Bonham. The film opened in theaters this month, …

Thanksgiving might be over, but gratitude is still in the air: The trailer for Bernard MacMahon’s Becoming Led Zeppelin is finally here. A glimpse of the first authorized Led Zeppelin documentary can be seen below, where Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones discuss forming one of the greatest …

Jimmy Page paid tribute to the late Steve Albini, who served as recording engineer and mixer for the 1998 album, Walking into Clarksdale, a collaboration between Page and his former Led Zeppelin bandmate, Robert Plant. “I was very sad to hear of Steve Albini‘s passing this week,” Page wrote in …

There was a moment when Megan Thee Stallion was in the studio laying down her latest single, “Cobra,” that hit like an epiphany. Artist/producer Diggy Lessard had just finished unleashing an epic guitar solo from his Gibson SG when the rapper proclaimed: “This is it. This is that thing right …

The new documentary Mr. Jimmy tells the story of a Japanese kimono salesman named Akio Sakurai, who worships Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. For three decades, Sakurai has adopted the persona of “Mr. Jimmy,” playing guitar like Page and attempting note-for-note recreations of Led Zeppelin concerts in Tokyo clubs. After …