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British Heavy Metal

Heavy Metal vs mainstream rock

Led ZeppelinLed Zeppelin at the Fillmore in 1969

Listen to songs by Led Zeppelin

Whole Lotta Love

(#5, 1969) - video of live performance (1970, Royal Albert Hall)

Black Dog

Stairway to Heaven

3 excerpts:

More Info: an interesting article about "Audio Reversal" (backward lyrics)

Led Zeppelin in Dallas in 1975Houses of the Holy (1973), Physical Graffiti (1975), and Presence (1976) continued their incredible success

The Crunge - Dancing Days

Listen to James Brown's influence on the transition between these two cuts from
Led Zeppelin's "Houses of the Holy" (1973)
... a kind of "tongue-in-cheek" homage to the Godfather of Soul
remember "Make It Funky" from the James Brown page?

Other Live performance Videos by Led Zeppelin

The Band Calls it Quits

Jimmy PageRobert Plant
Robert Plant & Jimmy Page Reunion Tour

speaking of links with the occult ...

Black Sabbath

name suggested by Terry "Geezer" Butler (bassist) who was a fan of occult novelist Dennis Wheatley; generally the lyrical messages of the band are doom-and-gloom predictions

Listen to songs by Black Sabbath & Ozzy Osborne

Paranoid

Symptom of the Universe

Ozzy Osborne

Rock ‘n' Roll Rebel

Flying High Again