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      <bio>
    <published>Fri, 6 Mar 2009 18:18:04 +0000</published>
    <summary><![CDATA[Led Zeppelin was originally formed in 1968 by guitarist <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Jimmy+Page" class="bbcode_artist">Jimmy Page</a> under the name &quot;The New Yardbirds,&quot; based on Page's previous band, <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Yardbirds" class="bbcode_artist">The Yardbirds</a>. While The New Yardbirds arose at first simply to fulfill some performance commitments booked in Scandinavia before the original band's break-up, Page attempted to create a <a href="http://www.last.fm/tag/rock" class="bbcode_tag" rel="tag">rock</a>-supergroup out of the new band, which would have been composed of the Yardbirds' own Page and <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Jeff+Beck" class="bbcode_artist">Jeff Beck</a>, <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Who" class="bbcode_artist">The Who</a>'s Keith Moon and <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/John+Entwistle" class="bbcode_artist">John Entwistle</a> (who were considering leaving their band), and possibly <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Steve+Winwood" class="bbcode_artist">Steve Winwood</a> or <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Steve+Marriott" class="bbcode_artist">Steve Marriott</a>.  ]]></summary>
    <content><![CDATA[Led Zeppelin was originally formed in 1968 by guitarist <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Jimmy+Page" class="bbcode_artist">Jimmy Page</a> under the name &quot;The New Yardbirds,&quot; based on Page's previous band, <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Yardbirds" class="bbcode_artist">The Yardbirds</a>. While The New Yardbirds arose at first simply to fulfill some performance commitments booked in Scandinavia before the original band's break-up, Page attempted to create a <a href="http://www.last.fm/tag/rock" class="bbcode_tag" rel="tag">rock</a>-supergroup out of the new band, which would have been composed of the Yardbirds' own Page and <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Jeff+Beck" class="bbcode_artist">Jeff Beck</a>, <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Who" class="bbcode_artist">The Who</a>'s Keith Moon and <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/John+Entwistle" class="bbcode_artist">John Entwistle</a> (who were considering leaving their band), and possibly <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Steve+Winwood" class="bbcode_artist">Steve Winwood</a> or <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Steve+Marriott" class="bbcode_artist">Steve Marriott</a>. 
 
 After Page's attempt at forming a supergroup failed, Page filled the band with vocalist <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Robert+Plant" class="bbcode_artist">Robert Plant</a>, drummer John Bonham and long-time friend and fellow London recording session player <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/John+Paul+Jones" class="bbcode_artist">John Paul Jones</a>. Page's first choice as singer, <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Terry+Reid" class="bbcode_artist">Terry Reid</a>, declined the opportunity but selflessly recommended Plant, who accepted and then brought in his old friend Bonham from the defunct Band of Joy.
 
 After some concerts with this new line-up billed variously as the New Yardbirds, or sometimes simply The Yardbirds, the band's name was changed to <strong>Led Zeppelin</strong>, after a comment was made by The Who's drummer Keith Moon while the New Yardbirds supergroup was still a possibility. Moon (although some attribute the comment to the Who's bassist John Entwistle) was quoted saying that the band would go down faster than a &quot;lead zeppelin&quot;. The group adopted the name, deliberately misspelling the first part to prevent fans from pronouncing it as &quot;leed.&quot;
 
 Shortly after their first tour, the group's eponymous first album was released on January 12, 1969. Its blend of <a href="http://www.last.fm/tag/blues" class="bbcode_tag" rel="tag">blues</a> and rock influences with distorted amplification made it one of the pivotal records in the evolution of <a href="http://www.last.fm/tag/heavy%20metal" class="bbcode_tag" rel="tag">heavy metal</a> music. Although several of Zeppelin's earliest songs were based on or were cover versions of blues standards, others such as &quot;Communication Breakdown&quot; had a unique and distinctively heavy sound. Led Zeppelin also featured delicate acoustic guitar on &quot;Black Mountain Side&quot; in which you can hear the influence of  <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Davy+Graham" class="bbcode_artist">Davy Graham</a>, and a combination of acoustic and electric approaches on the reworked folk song &quot;Babe I'm Gonna Leave You.&quot; The immediate success of the first album kick-started the band's career, especially in the <a href="http://www.last.fm/place/United+States" class="bbcode_place">United States</a>, where they would frequently tour. 
 
 The second record, simply titled <em>Led Zeppelin II</em>, followed in similar style later that year: the album begins with the bludgeoning riff of &quot;Whole Lotta Love,&quot; which, driven by the rhythm section of Bonham on drums and Jones on bass, defined their sound at the time. Led Zeppelin II—often referred to by fans as the &quot;Brown Bomber&quot;—was an even greater success for the group, reaching the Number 1 chart position in both the United States and the <a href="http://www.last.fm/place/United+Kingdom" class="bbcode_place">United Kingdom</a>.
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