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Among the best strategies is the one used by England's Led Zeppelin, which recently dislodged the Beatles as England's most popular rock group (TIME, Sept. 28). The Zeppelin's aim is to explore all the styles and techniques in today's rock spectrum without ever losing a heavy core of raw feeling...
...supergroup consisting of ex-Yard-bird Jimmy Page and three other young veterans of the British rock scene, Led Zeppelin was launched in 1968 in what Lead Vocalist Robert Plant calls a "smash-bang-wallop" fashion. After a week's tour of Scandinavia, the group knocked out its first ragged LP in 15 hours. The group's spontaneity and free-floating blues improvisations struck a responsive chord among the young, and the LP became a million-dollar seller...
...time when even the young could begin to feel the chill of history. Last week London's Melody Maker magazine announced that its annual readers' popularity poll placed the Beatles in the No. 2 spot-behind the hard-rock quartet, Led Zeppelin. Since the group rose from Liverpool to world renown eight years ago, it was the first time the Beatles had ever slipped below...
Among those who were to have appeared are Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, the Stooges, the MC5, Junior Wells, and Buddy...
Most important, a close listen to any few cuts will show that Don Ferris is one of the best bassists around. His style is similar to that of John Paul (Led Zeppelin) Jones, but Ferris concentrates more on maintaining a strong beat and solid backing than on the melodic value of his own lines. He's also extremely versatile, and I'd have a hard time naming half a dozen bassists as good...