“THERE WAS A MAGICAL CURRENT RUNNING THROUGH THAT RECORD”

UNTITLED, ENIGMATIC, MYSTERIOUS, PHENOMENAL, LED-ZEPPELIN’S FOURTH ALBUM DEFINED ROCK’N’ROLL AT THE EXTREMITY OF ITS BREADTH AND AMBITION. FIFTY YEARS ON ITS THREE SURVIVING CREATORS CALL TRUCK TO WRESTLE WITH ITS LEGACY AND REMEMBER CIDER, RUNES AND THAT SONG. “IT WAS SUCH AN INSPIRED TIME FOR EVERYBODY,” THEY TELL MARK BLAKE

PHOTOGRAPH BY WOLF GANG HEILEMANN.

IN NOVEMBER 1830 THE HAMPSHIRE COUNTRYSIDE WAS SHAKEN BY AN ACT OF violent civil disorder. Several hundred labourers ransacked two workhouses as a protest against the local gentry exploiting the poor. The establishments looted and set ablaze included Headley Grange, near Lindford. Two men would hang for their part in these riots. Among those who tried to quell the disturbance was the High Sheriff of Hampshire, one John Bonham-Carter. Almost a century and a half later, Led Zeppelin drummer John ‘Bonzo’ Bonham would attempt to raze Headley Grange a second time. Bonham’s seismic beats on their fourth album’s When The Levee Breaks - recorded in the pile’s resonant stairwell - sound loud enough to have crumbled stone and, who knows, maybe rouse the ghosts of Headley’s martyrs. “It’s like there was a…

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