Led Zeppelin
To be a rock and not to roll.
By James McNair.
Kings of mettle: Led Zeppelin flying high (from left) Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, Jimmy Page.
IS A VISIONARY too strong? Certainly Jimmy Page had vision. In July 1968, when an LA psalmist told him of imminent “life changing” decisions just days before his then-bandmates called time on The Yardbirds, the guitarist was already conceptualising a supergroup who – after a brief spell as The New Yardbirds – would be named Led Zeppelin as per Keith Moon’s suggestion.