Led Zeppelin III – Audio Cassette

If you regress, reverse-chronologically through the 1970s, it’s all very trend-led until you rewind prior to the beginning of glam rock. Then you drop into a sort of crisis of direction in which a lot of the decade’s potential stars aren’t really sure where they’re going. You’ve reached the year 1970, and you’ll be hearing a lot of folk influence, as the overdriven blast of the late 1960s reaches its first “have we gone too far?” moment.

Led Zeppelin ‘1’ – Audio Cassette

I made a post about the Jimi Hendrix Experience the other day, taking a glance at their defining role in the birth of rock music. But Hendrix didn’t single-handedly invent heavy rock. He was a supreme innovator, but when it came to setting the musical paramaters of what we now refer to as hard rock, there was a much more direct instigating force. That force, was Led Zeppelin.