#hoskyns

Barney Hoskyns writes of the band's enduring power and appeal:

"Led Zeppelin still speaks to [us] of danger and spirituality, darkness and light, power and beauty... Because Jimmy Page wrote the most crunchingly powerful riffs ever fashioned by an electric guitar player... Because live, they took songs into new dimensions of improvisation. Because John Bonham did things on his drum kits that confound the ear to this day ...Because- even when his lyrics smacked of ethereal piffle- Robert Plant possessed the most frighteningly exciting hard-rock voice ever captured on tape..." *and because John Paul Jones was an epically talented multi-instrumentalist and arranger. (*Last one added by me)

Barney Hoskins, Led Zeppelin: Oral History of the World's Greatest Rock Band

BILL BONHAM (organist in Robert Plant’s pre-Zeppelin band Obs-Tweedle, not related to John)

“I saw Listen at Walsall Town Hall. Robert was on another level, very dynamic. I’d never seen anything like him. Very misunderstood in the working men’s clubs, where they thought he just wailed. He always had a tremendous girl following.”