Led Zeppelin

“With the first album, the blueprint gets laid down,”Page said. In essence it was heavy stuff – blues-based rock, as pioneered by Hendrix and Cream, only super-sized.

And yet for all the brute force in Communication Breakdown and How Many More Times, there was the lyricism of folk music in Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You and Black Mountain Side. And in Dazed And Confused, a feverish blues, Page conjured otherworldly sounds using a violin bow.

Rolling Stone‘s review slammed the band’s “self-indulgence” and “weak, unimaginative songs”. On the contrary, this was the birth of a legend.