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{{quote|''"Oh pilot of the storm who leaves no trace ''
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''I will return again. ''
''Sure as the dust that floats high in June ''
''When movin' through Kashmir"''
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{{quote|''"Thank you for making us the world's number one band."''|Melody Maker advertisement for the release of ''Led Zeppelin III''}}
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The band have written their fair share of famous, classic hard rock songs that sometimes get overplayed like hell on AOR/"classic rock" radio for new generations to get annoyed, such as: "Dazed and Confused" (cover!), "Whole Lotta Love", "Heartbreaker"/"Living Loving Maid", "Immigrant Song", "Black Dog", "Rock and Roll", "Stairway to Heaven", "When the Levee Breaks" (cover too!), "Kashmir" and "Trampled Under Foot". Don't really peg them as simple noise-merchants though, because their discography's really varied and sometimes experimental, ranging from [[Blues Rock]] and acoustic [[Folk Rock]] to Eastern-influenced material, [[Funk]], [[Progressive Rock]] and weirder material. They're widely respected for their superior musical abilities, eclectic tastes, legendary concerts and well-known for their infamous exploits (such as the [[Noodle Incident|''shark episode'']]), among others. Also, pretty much any rock and metal band formed since owes them at least a bit, whether they admit to it or not.
But as with every mega-successful and influential band, there are downsides. Negative marks on their record include Plant's habit of [https://web.archive.org/web/20090326071845/http://www.turnmeondeadman.net/Zep/Originals.php lifting lyrics from old blues songs without credit] (which led to the occasional lawsuits), his occasionally embarassing lyrics (they referenced ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' about thirty years before [[The Lord of the Rings (film)|the movies]] made it [[Fantasy Ghetto|cool to do that]]), the band inevitably allowing success to go to their heads and descending into overblown excess post-1975, and the infamous 1976 [[Rockumentary]] film ''The Song Remains the Same'', commonly cited as one of the [[So Bad It's Good|worst concert films ever]], thanks to the sub-par performances and self-indulgent [[Cliché Storm|fantasy sequences]]. Also to be mentioned is their continued refusal to allow their songs into rhythm games, such as [[Guitar Hero]] and [[Rock Band]].
'''Band members:'''
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** Jason Bonham (his son) played drums on the 2007 reunion
* January 1969 - ''Led Zeppelin''
* October 1969 - ''Led Zeppelin II''
* October 1970 - ''Led Zeppelin III''
* November 1971 - [[No Title|Untitled]] (
* March 1973 - ''Houses of the Holy''
* February 1975 - ''Physical Graffiti''
* March 1976 - ''Presence''
* September 1976 - ''The Song Remains the Same'' ([[Live Album]], recorded in 1973)
* August 1979 - ''In Through the Out Door''
* 1982 - ''Coda''
* 1997 - ''BBC Sessions'' (compilation of live radio performances, recorded 1969-1971)
* 2003 - ''How the West Was Won'' (live, recorded in 1973)
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* [[Stairway to Heaven]]
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== Music Tropes: ==
* [[Black Sheep]]:
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* [[Epic Rocking]]: They have three songs that go over the ten-minute mark, and dozens of others that are at least five. Also, on their live album, ''The Song Remains The Same'', except for the first few, every song is at least ten minutes long, including a version of "Dazed And Confused" that clocks in at ''twenty-seven minutes''. One recording of "Dazed and Confused" sits at ''forty-five minutes''. "Moby Dick", Bonham's face-melting drum solo, appears as a ''twenty'' minute piece on ''How The West Was Won'', though it was known to go on longer. "Whole Lotta Love" often extended well past the ten-minute mark in concert as well, often as a blues/rockabilly medley.
* [[Fake-Out Fade-Out]]: "Thank You".
* [[Filk Song]]: "The Battle of Evermore" is perhaps their best known one here, but it's without doubt that the group were fans of [[The Lord of the Rings|J.R.R. Tolkien.]]
* [[Four More Measures]]: "Tangerine".
* [[Gag Penis]]: [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|"Gonna give you every inch of my love."]]
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* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: "Hey Hey What Can I Do".
* [[Metal Scream]]: 'Immigrant Song' has an early one.
* [[Mind Screw]]: Many of Zeppelin's songs are strange. "Stairway To Heaven" is their most famous example. "Dancing Days", a song about taking a girl on a date, contains the line, ''I saw a lion/He was standing along/With a tadpole in a jar.''
* [[Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness]]: All in all, Led Zeppelin's catalogue span the gamut from 1 to 7 - showing how versatile they were.
** 1 - Most of ''Led Zeppelin III''
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* [[Self-Titled Album]]: Three of them.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** Most famously, the [[The Lord of the Rings]] references in "Ramble On" and "The Battle of Evermore".
** The cover of ''Houses of the Holy'' is a depiction of the end of [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s ''[[
** The ''Presence'' object, according to the band members, was an artistic depiction of the ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey|2001]]'' monoliths.
** In an example of a ''literal'' [[Shout-Out]], Plant can be heard saying "Joni!" (Mitchell) on the live version of "Going to California" from ''How the West was Won''. Fitting, considering the song was basically about how the band were big fans of [[Joni Mitchell]].
** Also, the Pan imagery from ''Stairway to Heaven'' appears to be inspired by ''[[The Wind in the Willows]]''.
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* [[The Alcoholic]]: Bonzo could drink an absurd amount. On the night he died, he reportedly drank 30 screwdrivers (vodka and orange juice).
* [[All Drummers Are Animals]]: [[The Who|Keith Moon]] may be considered the quintessential example of this, but Keith just trashed hotel rooms. Bonzo trashed ''people''.
* [[Appropriated Appellation]]: Led Zeppelin got their name when Keith Moon and John Entwistle suggested that a supergroup with them, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck, would "go down like a lead balloon".
* [[Author Vocabulary Calendar]]: If you had a dollar for every single time Robert Plant says "baby", you would never have to work another day.
* [[Badass Beard]]: Their manager Peter Grant. Also Bonham.
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* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Dorian Red Gloria, the fabulously gay art thief from [[From Eroica with Love]], was physically modeled after Robert Plant. (Three of his subordinates in the Eroica gang are ''also'' modeled after other Zeppelin band members.)
* [[Noodle Incident]]: The mudshark incident. [[The Rashomon|Depending on who you ask,]] during the band's stay at Seattle's Edgewater Hotel in 1969, one or more members of the band and/or crew {{spoiler|sodomized one or more groupies with one or more fish or mudsharks, living or dead, which the band had just caught while fishing off their balcony.}}
* [[Painted-On Pants]]: Plant's trademark usual attire. Little wonder that his 'girly whine' is his ''other'' trademark...
* [[Popcultural Osmosis]]
* [[Pretty Boy]]: Robert Plant. Jimmy Page also qualifies.
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* [[Self-Plagiarism]]: Jimmy Page took many late Yardbirds songs and reworked them. "Tangerine" is an almost note-by-note copy of "Knowing That I'm Losing You," an unreleased Yardbirds track from just before they broke up.
* [[Serious Business]]: Allegations of plagiarism plus the occasional [[Fan Dumb]] equals not very fun indeed.
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* [[Spinning Paper]]: In the band's movie ''The Song Remains the Same''; "Led Zeppelin Robbed of $203k".
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: The Black Crowes, arguably.
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