Happy birthday dear boy! 🥳
On what would have been Keith Moons 74th birthday, lets take a moment to remember the man who, allegedly, gave Jimmy Page the name for his new group...
“...After rejecting Whoopee Cushion and Mad Dogs*, Page recalled a phrase Keith Moon had used a couple years earlier when there had been a vague plan to form a new group out of the sessions with Jeff Beck for 'Beck's Bolero’. “Moon's joke was about going down like a lead zeppelin”, recalls Grant. "In the circumstaces the name seemed perfect. I got rid of the 'a’. I was doodling in the office and it just looked better and I also didn't want any confusion over the pronunciation in America...”
🎉 Happy birthday Moonie! 🎉😁
(also Robert “playing” drums...😆😍)
Honourable mention to The Ox, John Entwhistle, who also claims to be the originator of the name Led Zeppelin...that’s a story for another day 😄
*) @ledbythreads Whoopee Cushion?! Mad Dogs?! Is there a chance Bad Arthur could actually have been on the table at one point?! 😳
