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THE REAL REASON LED ZEP WERE RUBBISH
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— 3 Oct 2000 Tanya Headon Comment

THE REAL REASON LED ZEP WERE RUBBISH
The Zep war flaring twixt Tom and Fred is of course ridiculous to an extreme. Of course ver Zep were excrable, that was pretty much their raison d’etre. By way of proof I need merely offer one salient fact. […]

Progressive rock sought to expand
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— 3 Oct 2000 Tom Comment

Progressive rock sought to expand the language of rock music, and also to raise its artistic game until it achieved some kind of wider acceptance within the grand narrative of ‘proper’ artistic achievement. The successes and failures of t[…]

HOW TO WRITE A LED ZEPPELIN SONG
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— 3 Oct 2000 Tanya Headon 1 comment

HOW TO WRITE A LED ZEPPELIN SONG
1: Steal an old Robert Johnson blues track. Preferably one about being lonely, or flood defence mechanisms.
2. If the lyrics make too much sense, change them. Nip down the library and get out a copy of Tolkein’s[…]

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