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The song that led off the game-changing album “Led Zeppelin 1″ fifty-five years ago in January 1969,”Good Times, Bad Times” appropriately opened Led Zeppelin’s storied O2 Arena London reunion in November 2007.
Legendary wrestler-turned-Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant had an appropriately out-sized role in the Led Zeppelin “4” story as told here In the Studio by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant.
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant recall first rehearsals for Led Zeppelin first public performance 11-9-68 at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm.
Bad Company lead singer/songwriter Paul Rodgers, guitarist/songwriter Mick Ralphs (d.2025), and drummer Simon Kirke all agreed that being the first band signed to Led Zeppelin’s Swan Song label, as well as sharing management with them, was advantageous. However the expectations for this “supergroup”, containing Rodgers and Kirke from Free and Ralphs from Mott the Hoople, were exceedingly high. Golden anniversary of silver-clad “Run with the Pack”.
“The Principle of Moments”, Robert Plant’s second solo album, first convinced us that Plant could sustain a viable solo career outside of the legendary Led Zeppelin, which he fronted for twelve fabled years. But for me personally it was “Shaken ‘n’ Stirred” in 1985, served pre-release on a Walkman at 40,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean, that began my professional relationship with the complicated singer. Robert Plant is my guest In the Studio.
When Robert Plant performed this toe-tappin’, finger snappin’ “Rockin’ at Midnight” in concert in Birmingham England in September 1985, he had already successfully lifted the curtain on Act Two of his lengthy post-Led Zeppelin career.
The mid-Eighties was a most difficult time for the titans of rock’s Second Generation. The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and The Who were no longer recording, touring, and in some cases even SPEAKING together. Rock’n’roll was officially in full-blown midlife crisis …Pete Townshend joins me In the Studio for Deep End Live.
“The YES Album”, a progressive rock touchstone, was quietly released fifty-five years ago. If the British Invasion bands led by The Beatles and Rolling Stones wanted to be rock’n’roll’s second verse after “Be Bop a Lula” and “Maybe Baby”, then London’s King Crimson, Emerson Lake and Palmer, and YES were determined to be rock’s “C” section, the musical bridge which takes the listener somewhere unexpectedly before returning to the familiar refrain.
The Grateful Dead’s “other one”, Bob Weir, has died from cancer at 78.
It is the 55th anniversary of Emerson, Lake, & Palmer. Carl Palmer is my guest, along with my archival interviews of the late Keith Emerson and Greg Lake.