Song for song, there isn't an album out there that celebrates the power of the riff like Led Zeppelin II. Almost every single track on the record – including the one that's a drum solo – packs a riff ...

Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II and Four Symbols — return to charts in the U.K. during a huge week for the rock band.

Led Zeppelin II -- which came out on Oct. 22, 1969 -- is one of their heaviest records and is credited with paving the way for many hard-rock bands to come. But there are also hints of the more ...

Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin II debuts at No. 93 on the U.K.’s Official Album Downloads chart, the band's first new entry on the tally in seven years. ENGLAND - 1969: Rock band 'Led Zeppelin' poses for ...

What was the difference between Led Zeppelin and The Beatles? For one thing, Zep’s studio approach was far less tedious. You aren’t going to hear about Zep running through 100 takes of a song, as the ...

Page formed Led Zeppelin when his previous band, the Yardbirds, dissolved. That band’s manager asked Page for the group before the guitarist joined, but he initially declined and recommended his ...

The rock track never reached No. 1 yet became one of the most recognizable rock songs of all time.

Hey, man, I take it all back! This is one fucking heavyweight of the album Led Zeppelin II. OK—I'll concede that until you've listened to the album eight hundred times, as I have, it seems as if it's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The release of the Becoming Led Zeppelin documentary pushes several ...

“On the second LP, you can really hear the group identity coming together,” Jimmy Page recalled years after its release. While Zeppelin recorded their first album in three weeks after a single, ...

Led Zeppelin changed the sound of rock music in 1969, and that turned me into an audiophile. Sure, it was the music that first sucked me in, but the “Led Zeppelin” and “Led Zeppelin II” albums were so ...

When the album came out 40 years ago, Rolling Stone critic John Mendelsohn wasn’t exactly glowing in his 1969 review of the album, writing tongue-in-cheekily, “I’ll concede that until you’ve listened ...