Led Zeppelin released two albums in 1969 and almost endlessly crisscrossed the Atlantic Ocean for concerts for 18 months after forming. They had no choice but to write songs for their second album ...

No one would blame you for picking “Stairway to Heaven” (1971) as the definitive Led Zeppelin song. The eight-minute epic is synonymous with the Zep for all the right (and a few of the wrong) reasons.

The lessons we learn from our parents often carry us well into our personal and professional adult lives, and the same is certainly true of John Bonham’s role in Led Zeppelin’s iconic track “Kashmir,” ...