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The Latest Breaking News from Robert Plant

Guest spots, duets, team-ups and mashups – we take a look at the weird, wonderful world of the rock’n’roll collaboration…

Louder

Man featured on Led Zeppelin IV album cover identified 52 years after its release

Identity of figure pictured on rock band’s fourth album cover has long been shrouded in mystery

The Independent UK

Iconic Led Zeppelin album cover star finally identified as 19th-century thatcher

The unnamed studio album, which was released in 1971, features legendary tracks such as Stairway to Heaven

Evening Standard

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An original photograph of the mysterious figure on the cover of Led Zeppelin IV has been discovered in an old photo album - and he's been identified

One of rock's great mysteries appears to have been solved

Louder

Figure on Led Zeppelin IV cover identified as Victorian Wiltshire thatcher

Fifty-year mystery solved as research suggests picture shows Lot Long, a widower from Mere

The Guardian - UK

An 80th Birthday Concert for Bert Jansch review – moving homage to 60s folk guitar hero

Pentangle’s Jacqui McShee as well as Robert Plant, Bernard Butler and Sam Lee were among stellar acts celebrating the late musician in impressive style

The Guardian - UK

"You can’t play Stairway to Heaven with cold fingers in front of Jimmy Page!": What happened when Ann and Nancy Wilson performed Stairway To Heaven for Led Zeppelin

Nancy Wilson reveals what it was like to perform Stairway To Heaven for Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, President Obama and an audience of stars

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"When they said they wanted the whole full-length version of Whole Lotta Love, I said, Really?": what happened when Jimmy Page took a Led Zeppelin classic to China

Jimmy Page, Leona Lewis, and a double-decker bus that transforms into a privet hedge: it can only be the closing ceremony of the 2008 Olympics

Louder

15 awful albums by classic bands, from Led Zeppelin to Metallica

Even rock’n’roll heroes can have a bad day at the office, writes Kevin E G Perry

The Independent UK

"I can't work a bloody digital watch, never mind a phone": Ozzy once accidentally texted Robert Plant looking for his missing cat

Ozzy Osbourne's lack of technical know-how was confirmed by his son Jack

Metal Hammer

“I knew exactly what I wanted to do in every respect”: How Jimmy Page built Led Zeppelin from the ashes of the Yardbirds

Using knowledge gleaned from his time as a first-call session pro – and his brief but crucial tenure alongside Jeff Beck in the Yardbirds – Page formed a rock colossus from the ground up

Guitar World

“Led Zeppelin was responsible for bigging it up. We had no choice… it was insane”: Robert Plant on how Led Zeppelin invented stadium rock

Led Zeppelin took live music into another stratosphere in the 70s and Robert Plant says they had to make it up as they went along

Louder

Nato’s venue, a lazy author, and yet another Johnson – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

“There was an extraordinary amount of tension...” Inside Led Zeppelin’s final US tour

Led Zeppelin's record-breaking final run of shows coincided with trouble and tragedy

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Guitar World

“I wrote Black Dog on a train. There was a Muddy Waters song with a riff that never ended...” How John Paul Jones wrote Led Zeppelin's Black Dog

Despite Jimmy Page’s masterful guitar playing, Black Dog was written by Led Zeppelin's bass hero John Paul Jones

Louder

"Zeppelin wasn’t safe, but we had such a following that virtually everything was accepted" - How Robert Plant made peace with the end of Led Zeppelin

In 1982, Robert Plant gave his first ever post-Led Zeppelin interview, and Classic Rock's Geoff Barton was the man with the tape recorder

Louder

Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes: Live at the Greek - Album Of The Week Club review

Live At The Greek wasn't quite what it should have been due to contractual obligations, but it was the most animated Jimmy Page had sounded in years

Louder

"We’ve been a rock band, we’ve been pop stars, and then we became dinosaurs. But if you can live through the dinosaur period you become a legend..." The epic saga of Nazareth

Axl is a huge fan. Robert Plant owes them money. They were almost on that plane with Skynyrd. Nazareth: the full crazy story

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Louder

The golden rule that Jimmy Page was determined to break on Stairway To Heaven

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page knew he was going to do things his own way on their Stairway To Heaven epic

Louder

Days of thunder: the triumph and tragedy of John Bonham

John Bonham’s drumming powered Led Zeppelin like the engine of a battleship, but his death in 1980 did for his band. This is his story

Kiplinger

A Grandparent’s Guide to Today’s Popular Music

A guide for grandparents to today's popular music, including how to stream music online.

Louder

Silverhead could have been huge: instead they imploded from a mix of class-A chemicals and "mad, decadent sex"

British glam rockers Silverhead provided the musical template for Hanoi Rocks, Mötley Crüe and Poison, and in frontman Michael Des Barres they gave Hollywood a star

Louder

"I don't think I could hum any of your stuff" - what happened when Led Zeppelin visited the BBC

In 1970 The Beatles abdicated and Led Zeppelin took their crown, so Robert Plant and John Bonham visited the BBC to explain the rock revolution

Metal Hammer

"It's a tragedy": Watch a shocked Led Zeppelin react to news of the death of Jimi Hendrix in rare 1970 interview footage

Immediately after the death of guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, a mourning Led Zeppelin got hounded by journalists asking about links between illicit substances and rock music

Metal Hammer

10 great heavy metal songs that came before Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath may have been the official ground zero for metal, but these heavy-as-lead bangers all predate that classic first album

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