• was formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page and Peter Grantfrom the remnants of the Yardbirds.
• performed first as the New Yardbirds to fullfill a former contract
• they chose the name Led Zeppelin for its irony and as a joke since alead zeppelin certainly can't   float. It was a term coined byKeith Moon of the Rolling Stones, but Page changed the spelling   from "Lead Zeppelin" to "Led Zeppelin" so that people wouldnot mispronounce it.
• one possible name the band had thought of before settling on Led Zeppelinwas "Mad Dogs"
• in the early days, the band opened for shows like Iron Butterfly andJethro Tull
• was forced to perform under a name other than Led Zeppelin once in theNetherlands because a   woman named Eva von Zeppelin claimedthey disgraced her name and threatened to sue them. So   theyplayed their show under the alias, The Nobs so they wouldn't offend herany further.
• Led Zeppelin I was recorded in less than 30 hours, and though creditwas given to Jimmy Page for   writing all the songs, Robert Plantdid have a hand in writing the lyrics. He was still tied to a former   contractand was unable to put his name on them.
• Led Zeppelin II was recorded in many different studios and was put togetherwhile the band was   touring America.
• it also went gold the day it was released.
• Led Zeppelin III was recorded at Headly Grange, the Rolling Stones mobilerecording truck, but   all of the songs were written at a Welshretreat where the band stayed after a long tour.
• The inside cover of Led Zeppelin IV was painted by a friend of JimmyPage, but was taken from a    tarot card generally meaningthat one must not proceed into the future without contemplation and    reflection.
• On the back cover of the untitled album, the poster on the wall is apicture of a dying man on a    stretcher that ironicallyreads "Every day someone receives relief from hunger."
• "Stairway to Heaven" is officially the greatest song never released. Officially, the greatest song that    was released, to date, is Whitney Houston's version of  "I will AlwaysLove You."
• The children on the cover of Houses of the Holy aren't actually naked.They are wearing flesh    colored bodysuits.
• Though the album, Houses of the Holy, was released in 1973, the song "Houses of the Holy" was    released in 1975 onPhysical Graffiti.
• The Song Remains the Same was filmed in 1973 and released in 1976 becauseof personal    problems within the band, but mostly becausethey couldn't find visual footage to match up with    theaudio samples. Each band member then created his own fantasy sequence inorder to fill in the    gaps.
• The soundtrack to TSRS is not identical to the movie. (that wasn't toohard to notice ;-)
• Presence was recorded with Plant in a wheelchair in a very short periodof time under very high    pressure, yet they still managedto pull off an excellent album.
• The cover of Presence was a joke on 2001: Space Odyssey.
• In Through the Out Door was the last studio album recorded by Led Zeppelinin 1979. The whole    thing was carried along by John PaulJones.
• Coda was a posthumous release of studio and live recordings compiledby Jimmy Page in 1982.
   the word "coda" in music means the end.
• The closest things to a Zeppelin reunion have been the Live Aid concertin 1985, Atlantic's 40th    Anniversary Party in 1988, andthe Page/Plant Reunion.
• Led Zeppelin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
• They receivedLifetime Achievement Honors at the Indian Music Awards in1995.
• In 1988 the three surviving members were offered $100 million by UnitedArtist Records to do 1   album, 1 video, and 1 tour. They declined.
• "Stairways to Heaven" is an album released in 1992 in Australiacontaining 12 different versions    on "Stairway toHeaven" by 12 different artists.

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