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Tag: Led Zep

"Candy Store Rock"
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True or False? Led Zep on K-Tel

True or False?  Led Zeppelin have appeared on a K-Tel album. Answer: ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ True! The band that famously refused to do TV appearances did not, generally speaking, stoop to K-Tel‘s level of crass commercialism.  Led Zeppelin cultivated such a mystique amongst

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"Wearing and Tearing"
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Led Zep Resorts to Gimmickry

How could have I have lived through the Led Zeppelin era and not have known that their final studio release featured an inner sleeve that (like Donovan‘s Cosmic Wheels) began life as a monochromatic image but (unlike any album before or since) would magically burst with color when washed with

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"Second Fiddle"
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1973: The Year Pop Reggae Broke

You can count on one hand the number of times that reggae singles by Jamaican artists have cracked the Top 40 here in the States:  “Israelites” by Desmond Dekker in June, 1969 (#9) and  “Double Barrel” by Dave Barker and Ansel Collins in August, 1971 (#22).  Two times [*actually, three

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