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** Plant absolutely ''hates'' "Stairway to Heaven" and it is rumoured that the fact that he would have been pressured to perform it repeatedly is one reason Zeppelin's reunion did not last for very long.

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** Plant absolutely ''hates'' "Stairway to Heaven" and it is rumoured that the fact that he would have been pressured to perform it repeatedly is one reason Zeppelin's reunion did not last for very long.long, though in the mid Nineties, the first few bars were played alone during Page and Plant tours in lieu of the final notes of "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You", and in November 1994 Page and Plant performed an acoustic version of the song at a Tokyo news station for Japanese television.


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** Prior to its finalised line-up, it was almost a {{supergroup}} comprising of Page, Music/JeffBeck, [[Music/TheWho John Entwhistle and Keith Moon]] with Steve Winwood and Steve Marriott considered as vocalists. Members of the never-materialised version took part in Jeff Beck's solo debut "Beck's Bolero".
** Page's Yardbirds bandmate Chris Dreja almost became the bassist as he was involved in the early development of the group before departing to start a career in photography.
** Terry Reid was Page's choice for lead singer before he declined the offer.
** It was almost a new line-up of Music/TheYardbirds before it became New Yardbirds and then ultimately taking its finalised name.
** Prior to Bonham's death, the group was planning to tour North America in late 1980 with the possibility of doing additional West Coast and UK tours in early 1981. "Carouselambra" would've been performed live for the first time.
** After Bonhan's death, there were rumours that the band would continue by replacing him with either [[Music/{{Rainbow}} Cozy Powell]], Carmine Appice, [[Music/JethroTull Barriemore Barlow]], [[Music/BadCompany Simon Kirke]] or [[Music/ElectricLightOrchestra Bev Bevan]].
** After the success of the 2007 one-off reunion concert, there were plans to do a full reunion with Jason Bonham becoming an official member. Page and Jones were interested in doing so, while Plant declined the offer after that. [[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Steven Tyler]] and [[Music/AlterBridge Myles Kennedy]] were potential candidates to replace Plant with Kennedy confirming in a 2014 interview that he was offered to replace Plant and was interested in doing so before it was abandoned in early 2009.
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* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}} did the cover art for ''Music/HousesOfTheHoly'', ''Presence'', ''Film/TheSongRemainsTheSame'' soundtrack album, ''In Through the Out Door'' and ''Coda''.

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* CreatorBreakdown: ''Presence'' was rush-recorded in eighteen days just prior to the arrival of Music/TheRollingStones, who block-booked the studio Zeppelin were working in to record ''Black And Blue'', and in a period when Robert Plant was recovering from injuries sustained in a car accident in Rhodes, Greece which led to the him recording ''Presence'' in a wheelchair, and the band cancelling a major tour. The lyrics are filled with Plant's introspective lyrics on the rock and roll lifestyle, and his fears that the weirdness surrounding the band was jinxing him and his bandmates. He contemplated retiring from music at one point. This, along with the band's short time to record the album and the band's wishes to return to a harder-rocking sound gave the album a tension and desperation not present in any other album, and is widely regarded as Led Zeppelin's worst album.

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* CreatorBreakdown: ''Presence'' was rush-recorded in eighteen days just prior to the arrival of Music/TheRollingStones, who block-booked the studio Zeppelin were working in to record ''Black And and Blue'', and in a period when Robert Plant was recovering from injuries sustained in a car accident in Rhodes, Greece which led to the him recording ''Presence'' in a wheelchair, and the band cancelling a major tour. The lyrics are filled with Plant's introspective lyrics on the rock and roll lifestyle, and his fears that the weirdness surrounding the band was jinxing him and his bandmates. He contemplated retiring from music at one point. This, along with the band's short time to record the album and the band's wishes to return to a harder-rocking sound gave the album a tension and desperation not present in any other album, and is widely regarded as Led Zeppelin's worst album.
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* OldShame: The band would like to forget their reunion performances at 1985's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TudbbVdz8os Live Aid]] and the 1988 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM2gw4iuUhE Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert]]. What were supposed to be epic reunion performances were made infamous by Jimmy Page's faulty guitars, poorly functioning monitors; and in the case of Live Aid, Robert Plant's voice was shot and Jimmy Page was higher than SnoopDogg on 4/20. The band went as far as preventing their performance from being put on the official Live Aid DVD in 2004.

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* OldShame: The band would like to forget their reunion performances at 1985's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TudbbVdz8os Live Aid]] and the 1988 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM2gw4iuUhE Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert]]. What were supposed to be epic reunion performances were made infamous by Jimmy Page's faulty guitars, poorly functioning monitors; and in the case of Live Aid, Robert Plant's voice was shot and Jimmy Page was higher than SnoopDogg Music/SnoopDogg on 4/20. The band went as far as preventing their performance from being put on the official Live Aid DVD in 2004.

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* CreatorBreakdown: ''Presence'' was rush-recorded in eighteen days just prior to the arrival of Music/TheRollingStones, who block-booked the studio Zeppelin were working in to record ''Black And Blue'', and in a period when Robert Plant was recovering from injuries sustained in a car accident in Rhodes, Greece which led to the him recording ''Presence'' in a wheelchair, and the band canceling a major tour. The lyrics are filled with Plant's introspectve lyrics on the rock and roll lifestyle, and his fears that the weirdness surrounding the band was jinxing him and his bandmates. He contemplated retiring from music at one point. This, along with the band's short time to record the album and the band's wishes to return to a harder-rocking sound gave the album a tension and desperation not present in any other album, and is widely regarded as Led Zeppelin's worst album.

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* CreatorBreakdown: ''Presence'' was rush-recorded in eighteen days just prior to the arrival of Music/TheRollingStones, who block-booked the studio Zeppelin were working in to record ''Black And Blue'', and in a period when Robert Plant was recovering from injuries sustained in a car accident in Rhodes, Greece which led to the him recording ''Presence'' in a wheelchair, and the band canceling cancelling a major tour. The lyrics are filled with Plant's introspectve introspective lyrics on the rock and roll lifestyle, and his fears that the weirdness surrounding the band was jinxing him and his bandmates. He contemplated retiring from music at one point. This, along with the band's short time to record the album and the band's wishes to return to a harder-rocking sound gave the album a tension and desperation not present in any other album, and is widely regarded as Led Zeppelin's worst album.


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* FollowTheLeader: Try to name the number of rock bands (and noodling bedroom guitarists) this band ''hasn't'' inspired.
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** A completely different "Over The Hills And Far Away" was recorded by [[ThinLizzy Gary Moore]] in 1987.

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** A completely different "Over The Hills And Far Away" was recorded by [[ThinLizzy [[Music/ThinLizzy Gary Moore]] in 1987.
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* CreatorBreakdown: Between Robert Plant's grief over losing his son and Jimmy Page's increasing addiction to heroin, ''In Through the Out Door'' is commonly regarded as Led Zeppelin's worst album.
** The album before it, ''Presence'' was rush-recorded in eighteen days just prior to the arrival of Music/TheRollingStones, who block-booked the studio Zeppelin were working in to record ''Black And Blue'', and in a period when Robert Plant was recovering from injuries sustained in a car accident in Rhodes, Greece which led to the him recording ''Presence'' in a wheelchair, and the band canceling a major tour. The lyrics are filled with Plant's introspectve lyrics on the rock and roll lifestyle, and his fears that the weirdness surrounding the band was jinxing him and his bandmates. He contemplated retiring from music at one point. This, along with the band's short time to record the album and the band's wishes to return to a harder-rocking sound gave the album a tension and desperation not present in any other album.

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* CreatorBreakdown: Between Robert Plant's grief over losing his son and Jimmy Page's increasing addiction to heroin, ''In Through the Out Door'' is commonly regarded as Led Zeppelin's worst album.
** The album before it,
''Presence'' was rush-recorded in eighteen days just prior to the arrival of Music/TheRollingStones, who block-booked the studio Zeppelin were working in to record ''Black And Blue'', and in a period when Robert Plant was recovering from injuries sustained in a car accident in Rhodes, Greece which led to the him recording ''Presence'' in a wheelchair, and the band canceling a major tour. The lyrics are filled with Plant's introspectve lyrics on the rock and roll lifestyle, and his fears that the weirdness surrounding the band was jinxing him and his bandmates. He contemplated retiring from music at one point. This, along with the band's short time to record the album and the band's wishes to return to a harder-rocking sound gave the album a tension and desperation not present in any other album.album, and is widely regarded as Led Zeppelin's worst album.
** Doesn't mean it doesn't have awesome songs, though. Jimmy Page holds the opening track "Achilles Last Stand" in very high regard.
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** "Communication Breakdown" is not the ''Chilliwack'' song.

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*** Or a Dionne Warwick song.
*** Or a Music/MariahCarey song.

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*** Or a the Music/MichaelJackson song.
*** Or the
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*** Or a the Music/MariahCarey song.



*** Or the *shudder* Music/JustinBieber song

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*** Or the the... *shudder* Music/JustinBieber song
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*** Or a Creator/MariahCarey song.
*** Or the RollingStones song.

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*** Or a Creator/MariahCarey Music/MariahCarey song.
*** Or the RollingStones Music/TheRollingStones song.
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** The album before it, ''Presence'' was rush-recorded in eighteen days just prior to the arrival of TheRollingStones, who block-booked the studio Zeppelin were working in to record ''Black And Blue'', and in a period when Robert Plant was recovering from injuries sustained in a car accident in Rhodes, Greece which led to the him recording ''Presence'' in a wheelchair, and the band canceling a major tour. The lyrics are filled with Plant's introspectve lyrics on the rock and roll lifestyle, and his fears that the weirdness surrounding the band was jinxing him and his bandmates. He contemplated retiring from music at one point. This, along with the band's short time to record the album and the band's wishes to return to a harder-rocking sound gave the album a tension and desperation not present in any other album.

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** The album before it, ''Presence'' was rush-recorded in eighteen days just prior to the arrival of TheRollingStones, Music/TheRollingStones, who block-booked the studio Zeppelin were working in to record ''Black And Blue'', and in a period when Robert Plant was recovering from injuries sustained in a car accident in Rhodes, Greece which led to the him recording ''Presence'' in a wheelchair, and the band canceling a major tour. The lyrics are filled with Plant's introspectve lyrics on the rock and roll lifestyle, and his fears that the weirdness surrounding the band was jinxing him and his bandmates. He contemplated retiring from music at one point. This, along with the band's short time to record the album and the band's wishes to return to a harder-rocking sound gave the album a tension and desperation not present in any other album.
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Hey Its That Guy cut by TRS decision. Ditto for Hey Its That Voice.


* HeyItsThatVoice: "The Battle of Evermore" has [[Music/FairportConvention Sandy Denny]] on vocals, the only guest performer ever to appear on any of the band's songs.
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*** Or the *shudder* Music/JustinBieber song
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* OldShame: The band would like to forget their reunion performances at 1985's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TudbbVdz8os Live Aid]] and the 1988 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM2gw4iuUhE Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert]]. What were supposed to be epic reunion performances were made infamous by Jimmy Page's faulty guitars, poorly functioning monitors, and in the case of Live Aid, Robert Plant's voice was shot and Jimmy Page was higher than SnoopDogg on 4/20. The band went as far as preventing their performance from being put on the official Live Aid DVD in 2004.

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* OldShame: The band would like to forget their reunion performances at 1985's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TudbbVdz8os Live Aid]] and the 1988 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM2gw4iuUhE Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert]]. What were supposed to be epic reunion performances were made infamous by Jimmy Page's faulty guitars, poorly functioning monitors, monitors; and in the case of Live Aid, Robert Plant's voice was shot and Jimmy Page was higher than SnoopDogg on 4/20. The band went as far as preventing their performance from being put on the official Live Aid DVD in 2004.
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* OldShame: The band would like to forget their reunion performances at 1985's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TudbbVdz8os Live Aid]] and the 1988 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM2gw4iuUhE Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert]]. What were supposed to be epic reunion performances were made infamous by Jimmy Page's faulty guitars, poorly functioning monitors, and in the case of Live Aid, Robert Plant's voice was shot and Jimmy Page was higher than SnoopDog on 4/20. The band went as far as preventing their performance from being put on the official Live Aid DVD in 2004.

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* OldShame: The band would like to forget their reunion performances at 1985's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TudbbVdz8os Live Aid]] and the 1988 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM2gw4iuUhE Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert]]. What were supposed to be epic reunion performances were made infamous by Jimmy Page's faulty guitars, poorly functioning monitors, and in the case of Live Aid, Robert Plant's voice was shot and Jimmy Page was higher than SnoopDog SnoopDogg on 4/20. The band went as far as preventing their performance from being put on the official Live Aid DVD in 2004.
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* OldShame: The band would like to forget their reunion performances at 1985's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TudbbVdz8os Live Aid]] and the 1988 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM2gw4iuUhE Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert]]. What were supposed to be epic reunion performances were made infamous by Jimmy Page's faulty guitars, poorly functioning monitors, and in the case of Live Aid, Robert Plant's voice was shot. The band went as far as preventing their performance from being put on the official Live Aid DVD in 2004.

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* OldShame: The band would like to forget their reunion performances at 1985's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TudbbVdz8os Live Aid]] and the 1988 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM2gw4iuUhE Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert]]. What were supposed to be epic reunion performances were made infamous by Jimmy Page's faulty guitars, poorly functioning monitors, and in the case of Live Aid, Robert Plant's voice was shot.shot and Jimmy Page was higher than SnoopDog on 4/20. The band went as far as preventing their performance from being put on the official Live Aid DVD in 2004.
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* OldShame: The band would like to forget their reunion performances at 1985's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TudbbVdz8os Live Aid]] and the 1988 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM2gw4iuUhE Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert]]. What were supposed to be epic reunion performances were made infamous by Jimmy Page's faulty guitars, poorly functioning monitors, and in the case of Live Aid, Robert Plant's voice was shot. The band went as far as preventing their performance from being put on the official Live Aid DVD in 2005.

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* OldShame: The band would like to forget their reunion performances at 1985's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TudbbVdz8os Live Aid]] and the 1988 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM2gw4iuUhE Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert]]. What were supposed to be epic reunion performances were made infamous by Jimmy Page's faulty guitars, poorly functioning monitors, and in the case of Live Aid, Robert Plant's voice was shot. The band went as far as preventing their performance from being put on the official Live Aid DVD in 2005.2004.
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* OldShame: The band would like to forget their reunion performances at 1985's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TudbbVdz8os Live Aid]] and the 1988 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM2gw4iuUhE Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert]]. What were supposed to be epic reunion performances were made infamous by Jimmy Page's faulty guitars, poorly functioning monitors, and in the case of Live Aid, Robert Plant's voice was shot. The band went as far as preventing their performance from being put on the official Live Aid DVD in 2005.
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** The album before it, ''Presence'' was rush-recorded in eighteen days just prior to the arrival of TheRollingStones, who block-booked the studio Zeppelin were working in to record ''Black And Blue'', and in a period when Robert Plant was recovering from injuries sustained in a car accident in Rhodes, Greece which led to the him recording ''Presence'' in a wheelchair, and the band canceling a major tour. The lyrics are filled with Plant's introspectve lyrics on the rock and roll lifestyle, and his fears that the weirdness surrounding the band was jinxing him and his bandmates. He contemplated retiring from music at one point. This, along with the band's short time to record the album and the band's wishes to return to a harder-rocking sound gave the album a tension and desperation not present in any other album.


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** A completely different "Over The Hills And Far Away" was recorded by [[ThinLizzy Gary Moore]] in 1987.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: "The Battle of Evermore" has [[Music/FairportConvention Sandy Denny]] on vocals, the only guest performer ever to appear on any of the band's songs.
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* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}} did the cover art for ''Houses of the Holy'', ''Presence'', ''The Song Remains the Same'', ''In Through the Out Door'' and ''Coda''.

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* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}} did the cover art for ''Houses of the Holy'', ''Music/HousesOfTheHoly'', ''Presence'', ''The Song Remains the Same'', ''Film/TheSongRemainsTheSame'' soundtrack album, ''In Through the Out Door'' and ''Coda''.
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** Jimmy Page has also stated that he hates "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)", saying it was just written as filler [[note]]It probably didn't help that his girlfriend ended up hating it as well[[/note]] and making it one of the few Led Zeppelin songs never performed live. Doesn't stop classic rock stations from keeping it in heavy rotation to this day (usually following "Heartbreaker", since there was no real gap between the songs on the original album).

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** Jimmy Page has also stated that he hates "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)", Woman)" from ''Music/LedZeppelinII'', saying it was just written as filler [[note]]It probably didn't help that his girlfriend ended up hating it as well[[/note]] and making it one of the few Led Zeppelin songs never performed live. Doesn't stop classic rock stations from keeping it in heavy rotation to this day (usually following "Heartbreaker", since there was no real gap between the songs on the original album).
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** While Page doesn't dislike "Stairway" as much as Plant does, he regards "Achilles Last Stand" as their finest song. To be fair, this isn't an uncommon opinion among people familiar with it.
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* BigNameFan: Inverted with [[Music/TheWho Pete Townshend]], who likes the band very much as people, but really can't stand their music.

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* BigNameFan: Inverted with [[Music/TheWho Pete Townshend]], who likes the band very much as people, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTJywZoG_bw really can't stand their music.music]].
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* BigNameFan: Inverted with [[Music/TheWho Pete Townshend]], who likes the band very much as people, but really can't stand their music.
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* ShortLivedBigImpact: Led Zeppelin had a career that spanned little more than a decade, cut short by drummer John Bonham's death. Their impact on the rock genre is undeniable, and their sound was one of the precursors to Music/HeavyMetal.

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* ShortLivedBigImpact: Led Zeppelin had a career that spanned little more than a decade, cut short by drummer John Bonham's death. Their impact on the rock genre is undeniable, and their sound was one of the precursors to Music/HeavyMetal.HeavyMetal.
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** That leaves John Bonham as the only member who had no dislike for something (except sobriety).

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** That leaves John Bonham as the only member who had no dislike for something (except sobriety).[[note]]except sobriety[[/note]].
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** That leaves John Bonham as the only member who had no dislike for something.

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** That leaves John Bonham as the only member who had no dislike for something.something (except sobriety).



** "Heartbreaker" is not the Music/PatBenatar song.

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** "Heartbreaker" is not the Music/PatBenatar song.

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