History Trivia / LedZeppelin

** Prior to its finalised line-up, it was almost a {{supergroup}} comprising of Page, Music/JeffBeck, [[Music/TheWho John Entwhistle and Keith Moon]] with Music/SteveWinwood and [[Music/TheSmallFaces Steve Marriott]] considered as vocalists. Members of the never-materialised version took part in Jeff Beck's solo debut "Beck's Bolero".

** Prior to its finalised line-up, it was almost a {{supergroup}} comprising of Page, Music/JeffBeck, [[Music/TheWho John Entwhistle and Keith Moon]] with Music/SteveWinwood and Steve Marriott considered as vocalists. Members of the never-materialised version took part in Jeff Beck's solo debut "Beck's Bolero".

* FanNickname: "Led Zeppelin IV" -- or, somewhat less commonly, "Zoso" or "The Ruins" -- for the Led Zeppelin album with just the symbols on it.

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* AuthorExistenceFailure: John Bonham died in 1980, just before their American tour, effectively ending the band.

** 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".

** Peter Grant turned down an invitation for the band to perform at the original Woodstock, believing they would be just another band on the bill instead of a major headliner, and advised them to stick to their scheduled show in New Jersey.

* OldShame: The band would like to forget their reunion performances at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TudbbVdz8os 1985's]] UsefulNotes/LiveAid 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 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.

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

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: When "Stairway To Heaven" was released, many called attention to the fact that the opening chords sounded suspiciously similar to the opening notes of "Taurus" by the Californian band Spirit. Led Zeppelin had opened for Spirit very early in their career which meant Plant and Page would have definitely heard Spirit play Taurus. Led Zeppelin was then taken to court in for alleged copyright infringement and a trial began in 2016. The band ended up winning the case, but two years later in 2018, another judge ruled there were errors in the previous trial, and threw out the verdict. A new trial was ordered and the matter has yet to be resolved.

** To many kids living in the TheNewTens, the ''Immigrant Song"' has become Led Zepplin's best known and greatest song. Thanks in large part to it being associated with the popular film Film/ThorRagnarok and now becoming the character Thor's unofficial theme song.

* 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]].

* 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 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.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: John Bonham died in 1980 effectively ending the band.

** To many kids living in the TheNewTens, the ''Immigrant Song"' has become Led Zepplins's best known and greatest song. This is thanks in large part to it being associated with the popular film Film/ThorRagnarok and becoming the character Thor's unofficial theme song.

** Another rumor about the band is that the members sold their souls to {{Satan}} in exchange for fame and fortune, and John Paul Jones was the only one who refused, which is why Jones is the only member of Led Zeppelin who hasn't suffered a horrible tragedy in his life.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: When "Stairway To Heaven" was released, many called attention to the fact that the opening chords sounded suspiciously similar to the opening notes of "Taurus" by Spirit. Led Zeppelin had opened for Spirit very early in their career, and Plant and Page would have definitely heard them play Taurus. Led Zeppelin was then taken to court in 2016 for alleged copyright infringement and a trial began. The band ended up winning the case, but two years later another judge ruled there were errors in the previous trial, and threw out the verdict. A new trial was ordered and the matter has yet to be resolved.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: When "Stairway To Heaven" was released, many called attention to the fact that the opening chords sounded suspiciously similar to the opening notes of "Taurus" by Spirit. Led Zeppelin was then taken to court for alleged copyright infringement and a trial began. The band ended up winning the case, but two years later another judge ruled there were errors in the previous trial, and threw out the verdict. A new trial was ordered and the matter has yet to be resolved.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: When "Stairway To Heaven" was released, many called attention to the fact that the opening chords sounded suspiciously similar to the opening notes of "Spirit" by Taurus. Led Zeppelin was then taken to court for alleged copyright infringement and a trial began. The band ended up winning the case.

* UrbanLegends:
** The alleged Satanic messages when "Stairway to Heaven" is played backwards.
** Another rumor about the band is that the members sold their souls to {{Satan}} in exchange for fame and fortune, and John Paul Jones was the only one who refused, which is why Jones is the only member of Led Zeppelin who hasn't suffered a horrible tragedy in his life.

** Zepp - or at at least, Peter Grant - turned down an invitation for the band to perform at the original Woodstock.

** 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]].

* OneOfUs: Plant is a huge fan of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', and has worked in references in his lyrics, most notably in "Ramble On".

** The planned [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XYZ_(UK_band) XYZ]] project with Page, Plant, and Music/{{Yes}}'s rhythm section Alan White and Chris Squire. Didn't happen due to Plant's grief over Bonham's death and his dislike for the complexity of the music. It eventually turned into Yes's later reunion and ''90125'' album. Page did perform with Yes at one show in 1984 (although I'm unsure if any recording of this show exists), and a demo tape of XYZ material can be found on the internet.

* BlackSheepHit: "Stairway to Heaven". Robert Plant once called it a "bloody wedding song".

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