Led Zeppelin was a British rock band formed in London in 1968, comprising Jimmy Page (guitar), Robert Plant (vocals), John Paul Jones (bass/keyboards), and John Bonham (drums). Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential rock bands of all time, they pioneered hard rock, heavy metal, and folk rock.
Synthesized blues, folk, Eastern music, and occult symbolism into a mythic rock aesthetic; established the album-as-complete-artwork paradigm; their sonic and visual vocabulary — drawing on Tolkien, Aleister Crowley, and Celtic mythology — gave rock music mythopoetic depth and ambition.
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