Uncut
“And if you feel that you can’t go on/In the light you will find the road”
On the cover: Led Zeppelin by Terry O’Neill/ Iconic Images
FOR bands, navigating the past can often be a tricky business. In some cases, there is an avowed refusal to engage in anything other than the work in front of them – as if stopping to look back will somehow derail hard-won forward momentum. In others, it can be somewhere they’d rather not revisit; a place of bad memories or difficult circumstances. For Led Zeppelin, the past is a source of extraordinary triumphs but also, ultimately, great loss. How, in other words, do you balance the good times with the bad times?