Top Gear — the music show, not the car-focused TV reboot — was one of England’s premier radio shows. As such, it attracted the cream of the crop when it came to talent. The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, the ...

Ideas for this Led Zeppelin album were born from live improvisation and captured before they cooled, produced across a patchwork of locations.

If you ever listen to the outtakes and studio chatter from the Beatles’ Let It Be sessions (January 1969), you might catch an interesting exchange between George Harrison and someone else in the ...

On a pleasantly warm, rain-free Tuesday of May 13, 1969, British rock band Led Zeppelin made non-contiguous U.S. history as one of the first bands of its kind to perform in Hawaii. It was the band’s ...

Led Zeppelin’s sophomore effort featured six new original tunes co-written by singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page. It also included three songs that were adapted from blues tunes— two by ...

Where were you during Woodstock weekend? Rocker Jimmy Page remembers. He was playing with Led Zeppelin at Convention Hall in Asbury Park for two shows on Aug. 16, 1969. Joe Cocker and the Grease Band, ...

Fifty years ago, rock 'n' roll had, definitively, its greatest year, featuring a landmark run of debut albums and artistic achievements that make 1969 an unrivaled mini-era in the genre's history. It ...

The opening bars of Led Zeppelin’s first song outline much of what followed: A mean series of Jimmy Page riffs introduces “Good Times, Bad Times,” from its self-titled 1969 debut, followed by a ...

Myriad times over the last 15 or so years we’ve asked our pal Angus Wynne to tell us tales from the Texas International Pop Festival, held over Labor Day weekend in 1969. Angus put together one hell ...