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What do you know about Led Zeppelin, “the Biggest Band of the Seventies”?

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The Led Zeppelin rock band is still widely regarded as one of the most successful, innovative and best-selling music bands in history.

The band’s musical influence on the world has been comparable with other influential rock giant supergroups in the history of audio recording, including: the Beatles; Jimi Hendrix; Santana; Rolling Stones; Pink Floyd; Deep Purple; Cream; Fleetwood Mac; Lyn Skynard, and the Who.

Their unique Led Zeppelin sound is marked by the music’s definitive speed, its heavy power, unusual rhythmic bass, rolling drum patterns, contrasting terraced dynamics, trancy melodic keyboards, wailing singing vocals, and distorted guitar riffs.

In the 1970s; Led Zeppelin embarked on many major stadium concert tours of North America; Europe and the world; and broke all concert attendance records, one after the other, along the way – during their tours.

On 30 April 1977, at one of their many sold-out concerts; the Led Zeppelin band set the world record for the largest attendance (to that date) for a single act show indoors with an attendance of 76,229 fans at the Pontiac Silverdome, Michigan –thereby eclipsing the earlier attendance record set by the Beatles.

Led Zeppelin was highly financially profitable throughout its career. But in the later half of the 1970s, towards the end of the decade; some of the band members began to have serious personal problems off-stage.

Later on, after being beset by a fatal tragedy in which one of them died; the band broke up and disbanded.

In 1995, Led Zeppelin was inducted into the ‘Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’; and the museum stated that: “the Led Zeppelin band were as influential during the1970s, as the Beatles were during the 1960s”. 

According to, the Guinness World Records 2009;  Led Zeppelin set another world record in 2007, for the “Highest Demand for Tickets Made for One Music Concert”; after 20 million people requested to buy tickets online for the Led Zeppelin’s single, one-off, reunion Tribute concert, that was held on 10 December 2007.

There is still a massive demand for Led Zeppelin’s music to date; with huge unprecendented cash offers being made for them to regroup; but the remaining band members have so far refused to restart the band again.

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  • Question of

    How many Led Zeppelin albums are reckoned to have been sold worldwide?

    • 100 million units/albums
    • 150 million units/albums
    • 250 million units/albums
  • Question of

    Led Zeppelin released nine studio albums before the band broke up. How many of these albums got into the Top 10 of the US Billboard album charts?

    • Five out of nine
    • Seven out of nine
    • All nine of them
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    Which one of these Led Zeppelin songs is still used by the BBC as the signature tune for the start of: the Top of the Pops television programme?

    • “Ramble On”
    • “Whole Lotta Love”
    • “Stairway To Heaven”
    • “Dazed and Confused”
  • Question of

    What is the name of the singer of the Led Zeppelin rock band?

    • Led Zeppelin
    • Robert Plant
    • Jimmy Page
    • John Bonham
  • Question of

    Which Led Zeppelin album features their song – Stairway To Heaven – one of the most popular and influential songs in rock music?

    • Led Zeppelin I
    • Led Zeppelin II
    • Led Zeppelin III
    • Led Zeppelin IV
  • Question of

    Which major global music magazine glowingly described Led Zeppelin, as: “the biggest band of the Seventies”; and “one of the most enduring bands in history”; and “the heaviest band of all time”?

    • Rolling Stone
    • Guitar World
    • NME
    • Melody Maker
  • Question of

    Who was the ace guitarist of the Led Zeppelin band?

    • Led Zeppelin
    • Robert Plant
    • Jimmy Page
    • John Bonham
  • Question of

    The media gave Led Zeppelin a reputation for engaging in wild acts and raunchy/lewd behaviour. What were the chaps not accused of by the press?

    • Trashing their hotel suites and throwing TV sets out of windows into pools.
    • Having drug-fuelled, after-concert crazy parties with sexy female groupies.
    • Running around naked in the Welsh countryside hills chasing butterflies.
    • Riding motorcycles through the floors of their posh rented manor houses.
  • Question of

    Which one of the following tracks is not on the debut, Led Zeppelin album, Led Zeppelin I?

    • “You Shook Me”
    • “Since I Have Been Loving You”
    • “Your Time Has Gonna Come”
    • “I Can’t Quit You Baby”
  • Question of

    Which one of the following music genres is not a major musical influence for Led Zeppelin’s unique style of rock music?

    • Soul music
    • Blues music
    • Psychedelic music
    • Folk music
  • Question of

    In which year, and where, was the Led Zeppelin band formed?

    • In 1967, in Birmingham
    • In 1968, in London
    • In 1969, in New York
    • In 1970, in Toronto
  • Question of

    Who was the Led Zeppelin bassist and keyboardist?

    • John Bonham
    • Robert Plant
    • John Paul Jones
  • Question of

    Led Zeppelin is widely regarded as one of the first bands ever to play which genre of rock music?

    • Heavy metal
    • Blues rock
    • Psychedelic hippie rock
    • Folk music rock
  • Question of

    Which one of the following tracks is not on the Led Zeppelin album, Led Zeppelin IV?

    • “When The Levee Breaks”
    • “Stairway To Heaven”
    • “Baby I’m Gonna Leave You”
    • “Black Dog”
  • Question of

    Who was the drummer of the Led Zeppelin band?

    • Led Zeppelin
    • John Bonham
    • Ginger Baker
    • John Paul Jones
  • Question of

    In the US; which position is Led Zeppelin ranked, in terms of the most album sales ever made by a best-selling band?

    • Best-selling band ever
    • Second-best-selling band ever
    • Third-best-selling band ever
    • Fourth-best-selling band ever
  • Question of

    In 1980, Led Zeppelin broke up and disbanded because one of them died from alcohol-related asphyxia; which band member was it?

    • John Bonham
    • Jimmy Page
    • Robert Plant
    • John Paul Jones
  • Question of

    In 2007; Led Zeppelin reunited briefly for a one-off reunion concert with Jason Bonham, the son of John Bonham, on the drums. What was the name of this concert held in London?

    • Led Zeppelin Reunited Concert
    • Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert
    • John Bonham Tribute Concert

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Written by Daniel Obiago

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  9. 14/18 Even though I got the one right about their being the first heavy metal band, I think that title should go to Steppenwof. Heck, they were ever the first to use that phrase in “Born to Be Wild.”