Led Zeppelin has been called one of the most influential bands for the development of Heavy Metal. Zeppelin Incorporates elements of many types of music including American Blues, Celtic, Arabic, and British Folk just to name a few. Many incredible Heavy Metal bands have credited Zeppelin as being influential to their own artistic expressions. James Hetfield himself quoted "Stairway to Heaven" as his send favorite song of all time according to Farout Magazine .
Led Zeppelin started out around 1968 in the London basement in what is now the "Chinatown" of London. There Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, and Robert Plant decided to play a song from the old Yardbirds song called "Train Kept a Rollin". This was the first time the band had felt the "Power", as John Paul Jones calls it. The band realized at this point that, they needed to be careful because their performance felt amazing, but they knew it was in it's infancy and they had to be careful so they would not lose it. That performance became the the Begginning of Led Zeppelin.
Led Zeppelin began touring in 1998 and toured together until September 25th, 1980. That was the day that John Bonham, the long time drummer of Led Zeplin died. Bonham died of alcohol poisoning and the Band decided to break-up out of respect for Bonham.
