The interviewer talks about the beatles as if they were completely finished... it's incredible how nowdays afte 50 years they are still alive in the heart of the people
Well, Sir Paul McCartney is, with the incredible career he has had/has. Paul is probably the single greatest musical artist in UK's history. Paul is the Greatest promoter of "The Beatles" then, and now. But once the personality is gone someday, as will be the personalities gone someday, from all of these famous 70's bands, it will be interesting to see what 70's recordings the teens of 25 years from now gravitate to on their own vs. what grandpa or great-grandpa would influence them with. I say that to say that the love for the music of Led Zeppelin is organic. And it doesn't require big media, or morning or evening talk shows to keep it alive. By word of mouth, now through the internet, what's really good gets passed around. So we'll see, when the power of the personalities of these bands have all gone on, and there's just the musical record left. And we'll see what the real Legacy of these superstars are.
If anybody was wondering, The Lemon Song is what's played at the beginning. = ) Then Bring It On Home. Which are the words cut off just before they go on to the next top news. ; p
Led Zeppelin will always be number 1 🤘🏼 they created masterpieces that influenced many artists like Greta Van Fleet, Queen, and more! LZ used what they knew to create something new. Really, back in the 60s they were far ahead of their time, so innovative and genius, and now they’re still ahead of our time. No one has beat Led Zeppelin. I’m really glad I can listen to their music 😁
Yep it sure is! That's why he can still sing today in his late 60's (and is still fucking hot young women)! Have you seen the 08 Zep reunion concert? He sang for two+ hours! Plant is widely considered one of the best vocalists in the history of music and that really must kill all of you anti smoking Nazi's!
Saw them at Earls Court in '75 and most of the songs were tuned down even then. Loved the band but Plant was a disappointment. Ian Gillan with Deep Purple was better live.
Led Zeppelin forever. The best band in the world the best band ever. 🎤🥁❤️🇬🇧💯🔥👏🤘👍👌🌞😁✌️🤗🍀🎶☮️ Robert Anthony Plant forever best singer and John Henry Bonham best drummer.
This would have come after the 1970 BBC 'Nationwide' introduction and preview. I would cross reference it to the relevant sequence. I have the reference
The Beatles had their time and Zeppelin had theirs . Different times different groups. Buddy Holly 50s Beatles 60d and the mighty Zep 70s the rest were icing on the cake .
Hmm, too bad Bonham didn't live to see the further generations to become Beatles fans without Beatlemania, only the music. I love them both, of course.
So much of pop culture and that includes rock 'n' roll is image. I doesn't mean that some if isn't really good, but the public buys into an image more so then the substance of the art. From what I read, Led Zeppelin never trashed hotels, but it would often be publicized that they did. Why? Because if fed to certain group of fans. Let's face it, most musicians are not street fighters, but the often wear scowl if their photos. These are creative people not thugs. Pete Townshend hated smashing guitars, but he did it.
D Anton thank you for elaborating that very subject. Seemingly, this "image" concept has again come full circle. Not at ALL about the art, but again image. Society beckons as ever. Dictators of the industry infiltrate art and society. Also, this is the very first time I'd ever heard John speak. Such an eloquent gentile and gentle young man. But an artist of his ilk, not sure why I'm surprised, but I am. :) A great loss to music. Another day the music died. Thank you for posting this interview. And trolls, I expect you at some juncture. So, I say, billy be damned. Bring on the trolls and enjoy my post! :) Feel free to vex me. Dazzle me.
"So, tell me, Mr. Interviewer, do you think you'll still be alive and working in eight years? Is there any chance you'll soon flop and just go away? It's an honest question."
I understand what Bonham was saying. For a lot of people, like the hysterical screaming girls, The Beatles were just faces. They'd scream and cry over the music being played essentially until their lungs bled. They, those people, never truly cared for the music the four boys made. They just wanted the boys. But others were able to look past that and actually stop to listen. The Beatles had great music (mainly after their early pop day, although even some of those spring merit). Bonham was focused on Beatlemania. I think he was also someone who didn't actually fully appreciate the music, but from a different perspective than the girls.
Yes they were more sophisticated. The early 60s music was almost comically simple. Zeppelin barely scratches the surface of what the late 60s and early 70s were producing as far as sophisticated pop music goes. Zeppelin's my favorite band mind you, but still. Zeppelin fans back then also like ELP, and Yes etc. I mean this was a miniature Renaissance period for pop music.
@@chaosh7040 who is really anything stunning, Rolling Stones wanted to be The Beatles and would probably be not as popular if they weren’t influenced by them. Pink Floyd maybe would’ve been popular, but probably not. The Beatles did more than people think they did.
@@alien6812 Floyd didn't need the Beatles at all...the were a completely different genra of rock whose influence "Revolution 9" wouldn't exist w/out. It wasn't the Beatles talent that kept them at #...it was radio censorship only allowing broken heart songs/love songs/happy bubblegum music (the latter 2 being the complete early years of the Beatles) on mainstream radio...which is why it was just them & the Beach Boys at #1 in US & only them in England...because of censorship. Floyd definitely had some over the top stuff w/Sid Barret but after Gilmore joined they were destined to be heard & the Beatles were more influenced by them (although not publicly acknowledged...just in musical switch) than vice verse. Kieth Moon was the original thrash drummer ("My Generation" outro & a few other examples) & Who (like Zep & Floyd) just needed to wait for "mainstream" to be uncensored enough to start letting real music be played. Granted...Beatles musical switch in the later years left the censors in a tough place..."We've declared them #1 all these years & now they go & switch there music style to the same as all those other bands we've been keeping off the top to keep them at #1...guess we gotta starts acknowledging some of those other bands now". Was never really big on the Stones (some stuff ok but generally not that big of a fan)...just put them in because...but Floyd/Who/Beatles/Stones in that order for actual music talent IMO...but I've never been a big fan of what was allowed on the radio as opposed to the actual good music on the albums that was never allowed to be played...until it finally reached the 25 year mark & got classified as "Classic Music"...& even today it's the same 25 songs on each classic station played over & over w/about 25 other songs randomly switched each few weeks & thrown in for filler for the same 25 songs.
I wonder how "The Led Zeppelin" would have reacted all those years ago if they knew back then that we'd be watching them "on the line" all these years later........
Funny how the interviewer is talking about how a couple of unknowns had taken over the mantle of the Beatles. By 1970 the Beatles were more or less done but were still huge household names. Now 50 years on Led Zeppelin are themselves household names.
The Beatles are great but Led Zeppelin is Led Zeppelin... Zepps were supergroup which during late 60s and throughout the 70s had best singer, best guitarist, great bassist and the greatest rock drummer eva :)
Touring is part of being the Greatest. The Beatles failed on that Big Time, but Sir Paul McCartney has done his share of massive touring after The Beatles called it quits.
Note Robert's Van Dyke goatee& mustache.This is probably early '70 before ever going to Wales and getting ideas down for LZIII. For 1970 and most of '71 all four members wore facial hair. I think Robert shaved first...
As a Zep fan,we can tell this is early'70. So tell a Texican what A Shilling or for that matter what a Grout would have been worth then? And what denominations they were? Any Brits a trolling?
A shilling was 5p (12 old pennies). There were 20 to the pound. Groats were long gone by 1970 but they had been worth 4d, that is 1 2/3 p. Shillings stopped being referred to in prices in early 1971 when we "decimalised" (as the US had done 180 years before). So, instead of referring to 3/6 (three shillings and sixpence), we said 17 1/2p. (The 1/2 p coin disappeared in 1983 or so). Instead of £1 10s (also called 30 shillings), we said £1.50, as we do today. However, the shilling coins continued to be worth 5p until 1990 when the original 5p coin (first brought out in 1968) and the shilling coin, which was the same size but of an earlier design, were replaced with a smaller single 5p coin.
'Old squares' always put THE in front of band names. THE Pink Floyd was another one. 'Can you hum the tune?' was another old fashioned question. Interesting that John Bonham doesn't seem to have a Birmingham area accent. Robert Plant still does. It's not so apparent here. Maybe they are trying to hide it. In a BBC interview with Jimmy Page when he was a teenager he had quite a posh accent. Now he has a more generic London one.
They knocked the Beatles off in 1970 because the Beatles had broke up by then. They didn't overtake them, the Beatles weren't there to contend for the award.
That was because they had far better equipment by 1970. You need to remember that the Beatles stopped touring in 1965. A lot happened in those 5 years. There's no doubt that they'd be selling out stadiums if they had played them too. In fact, they were the first to ever play a staduim-like venue.
PlsDetox No Elvis played those before them. The Beatles would not have lived on in the problem ridden 70s, they were way too chirpy and they had a relatively weak command over strong sound production and they weren't heavy enough for the large arenas that drew the audiences in the 70s. As they were saying, the personality cult was dying out. As more and more youngsters were making bands, just being a band was not enough for the beatles. Musicality and ferocity became important and the youth wanted to hear music more than the musicians. People and teenage girls particularly came to see the Beatles in the 60s. That charm had died out after a few years. Zeppelin's stadiums were so large most people couldn't see the band and were that far away. The beatles would've surely sold out audiences, but to imagine them out-seliing Led Zeppelin in the 70s is unimaginable. It's a testament to the fact that people will always support new artists over the same stale music. It is impossible that the Beatles could've been mainstream in the 70s.
Some Teeny pop award is pretty irrelevant but Zeppelin won it anyway because of the first two albums. Either way the Beatles and Zeppelin can only be compared based on popularity and what they did for music but to compare their musical styles would be silly, try to imagine the Beatles playing Achilles Last Stand
+PlsDetox Some of The Beatles most popular songs came out between 1968-1970. To say they were on their way out was a bold statement. Led Zeppelin is much more talented then The Beatles. Led Zeppelin knocked them out when they were still big, The Beatles couldn't have survived the 70's as a top group.
I've often thought about The Beatles abilities compared to other groups what I found throughout my teenagers and 20s and 30s is that there are lots of individuals groups that have made records which might challenge The Beatles or be better than a lot of Beatles songs but the fact is I've listened after listen to LP after LP from Stella rock bands like Led Zeppelin Hendrix AC DC the stones etc the difference is with their albums maybe three tracks are outstanding and the rest of quite ordinary the first Led Zeppelin album I heard was had 3 great tracks fantastic tracks Stairway to Heaven black dog but the rest of the album wasn't that good wheras. with The Beatles I would say about 2/3 or 3/4 are really high standard and if you really want to argue about the best songs of The Beatles did then they can compare with the best of anybody comparing Please Please Me with Voodoo Child is comparing chalk with cheese comparing Stairway to Heaven With A Day in the Life is possibly more apposite But the latter song stands up to comparison well with any other great song
The twits were too used the Pop countdowns of bands like The Who, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones. Zeppelin broke the Pop naming mold, as did Pink Floyd.
It's odd that they were supposed to be something new as opposed to the personality cult, yet none of the beatles kept an aura about themselves as Robert Plant used to live.. I mean they invented the idea of a "Rock God". Hell, he even called himself "golden god of rock". They reallly paid a lot more attention to what their audiences were "seeeing" compared to the beatles. I find it an irony
Lol, you can't really blame the interviewer, remember The Beatles and Elvis were met with the same type of skepticism or bewilderment from the press in their days. Many considered the way Elvis shook his hips as vulgar,, and thought the Beatles had long hair, lol
Blame Jimmy Page when Ritchie Blackmore told John Bonham that their material was a copycat, Bonham was upset at Page. I believe Jimmy have done this behind Plant, Jones, and Bonham's backs.
The Beatles had their day, then went away. Had they continued to tour and not quit on the crowd like they did, they might have been able to continue as a top band. Maybe, maybe not. They might have seen the writing on the wall that bands like the Stones, Zep, Pink Floyd, The Doors etc...were eclipsing them. One thing's for sure, none of the Beatles made music worth a damn after the breakup save a few songs from Lennon & Harrison.
HumanRiff69 I think the Beatles were being Out Rocked and they knew it. Zeppelin, theStones, Hendrix, Cream, they were all Blues Bands. TheBeatles followed Chuck Berry and Little Richard while other bands copied Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf. George didn't go Rock, he went Revival.
The interviewer talks about the beatles as if they were completely finished... it's incredible how nowdays afte 50 years they are still alive in the heart of the people
This interview is from the same year as the Beatle's break up. At the time, the Beatles were essentially finished in a technical sense.
Well, Sir Paul McCartney is, with the incredible career he has had/has. Paul is probably the single greatest musical artist in UK's history. Paul is the Greatest promoter of "The Beatles" then, and now.
But once the personality is gone someday, as will be the personalities gone someday, from all of these famous 70's bands, it will be interesting to see what 70's recordings the teens of 25 years from now gravitate to on their own vs. what grandpa or great-grandpa would influence them with.
I say that to say that the love for the music of Led Zeppelin is organic. And it doesn't require big media, or morning or evening talk shows to keep it alive. By word of mouth, now through the internet, what's really good gets passed around.
So we'll see, when the power of the personalities of these bands have all gone on, and there's just the musical record left. And we'll see what the real Legacy of these superstars are.
It's nice to see and hear Bonzo speak
If anybody was wondering,
The Lemon Song is what's
played at the beginning. = )
Then Bring It On Home.
Which are the words cut
off just before they go on
to the next top news. ; p
He calls them "The Led Zeppelin", reminds me of "The Facebook".
The Deep Purple....
This has to be the most which Bonzo ever spoke into a mike.
You haven't listened to the drum isolated Tracks? Fool in the Rain intro and then Whole Lotta love outro after the solo. That's him "talking".
But it shows he was a hell of a smart guy at just 22, I'm impressed!
Maybe.
So rare to see any interview footage of Bonham
You rarely hear John Bonham speak but he told it like it was!
It is awesome to hear him. And it dawns on me that some of him comes out to this day when Jimmy is speaking.
That was dope, thank you for sharing
'the' led zeppelin. Bob Wellings had his 80th birthday a few weeks ago.
Given all the cover bands today they were THE Led Zeppelin. The one that drove Zeppelin's wife mad.
That old fart was still breathing in2015? Blimey! I reckon that's wot a Brit would express?
Bonham speaks!
Bonzo's face absolutely priceless when he said ' do u think u will last as long as beatles' . Lol
3.40 Says it all really. To see the geniuses behind the genius music in person.
Always been a fan of The Led Zeppelin's.
The Beatles
The Who
The Rolling Stones
The Deep Purple
The Led Zeppelin
Yeah, whatever!!!
Wonderful!
In 69 they really was a little better The Beatles. I love both The Beatles and Led Zeppelin. They different
From Great Russia with love 🤘🏻
Led Zeppelin will always be number 1 🤘🏼 they created masterpieces that influenced many artists like Greta Van Fleet, Queen, and more! LZ used what they knew to create something new. Really, back in the 60s they were far ahead of their time, so innovative and genius, and now they’re still ahead of our time. No one has beat Led Zeppelin. I’m really glad I can listen to their music 😁
Long live John Henry Bonham
Keep smoking, Robert. It's great for the voice.......
Yep it sure is! That's why he can still sing today in his late 60's (and is still fucking hot young women)! Have you seen the 08 Zep reunion concert? He sang for two+ hours! Plant is widely considered one of the best vocalists in the history of music and that really must kill all of you anti smoking Nazi's!
not really...his voice changed a lot over the years. smoke is not the right therapy.
i was being facetious......
Saw them at Earls Court in '75 and most of the songs were tuned down even then. Loved the band but Plant was a disappointment. Ian Gillan with Deep Purple was better live.
I apologize :) I did't catch the meaning of your sentence. ;)
Wow this is amazing.
Led Zeppelin forever. The best band in the world the best band ever. 🎤🥁❤️🇬🇧💯🔥👏🤘👍👌🌞😁✌️🤗🍀🎶☮️ Robert Anthony Plant forever best singer and John Henry Bonham best drummer.
This would have come after the 1970 BBC 'Nationwide' introduction and preview. I would cross reference it to the relevant sequence. I have the reference
The Beatles had their time and Zeppelin had theirs . Different times different groups. Buddy Holly 50s Beatles 60d and the mighty Zep 70s the rest were icing on the cake .
Robert Plant
20/08/1948
73 años (74)
I can whistle heart breaker for one mate.
I don't recall whistling any rock songs, whether by The Beatles or otherwise.
I guess whistling is a British thing.
Doesn’t matter if you whistle or hum it. Just listen to it again and again or you’ll go crazy 😩
0:35 makes me laugh since we forget how old that Zeppelin song really is!
I can whistle a lot of their stuff.
Hmm, too bad Bonham didn't live to see the further generations to become Beatles fans without Beatlemania, only the music. I love them both, of course.
John Bonham
31/05/1948
25/09/1980
32 años
This poor guy who said people were no more interested what Paul McCartney had for breakfast, certainly didn't anticipate social media craze lol.
So serious back then
lol THE Led Zeppelin
LZII kicked them into superduperstardom, and there they stayed.
So much of pop culture and that includes rock 'n' roll is image. I doesn't mean that some if isn't really good, but the public buys into an image more so then the substance of the art.
From what I read, Led Zeppelin never trashed hotels, but it would often be publicized that they did. Why? Because if fed to certain group of fans. Let's face it, most musicians are not street fighters, but the often wear scowl if their photos. These are creative people not thugs.
Pete Townshend hated smashing guitars, but he did it.
D Anton thank you for elaborating that very subject.
Seemingly, this "image" concept has again come full circle. Not at ALL about the art, but again image. Society beckons as ever. Dictators of the industry infiltrate art and society.
Also, this is the very first time I'd ever heard John speak. Such an eloquent gentile and gentle young man. But an artist of his ilk, not sure why I'm surprised, but I am. :)
A great loss to music. Another day the music died.
Thank you for posting this interview. And trolls, I expect you at some juncture.
So, I say, billy be damned.
Bring on the trolls and enjoy my post! :)
Feel free to vex me. Dazzle me.
You obviously read the wrong sources.
That's where Zeppelin went wrong.They never came out with any tunes you could whistle or hum.No wonder they never made it big.
Very interesting observations. Quite revealing, too.
"So, tell me, Mr. Interviewer, do you think you'll still be alive and working in eight years? Is there any chance you'll soon flop and just go away? It's an honest question."
I understand what Bonham was saying. For a lot of people, like the hysterical screaming girls, The Beatles were just faces. They'd scream and cry over the music being played essentially until their lungs bled. They, those people, never truly cared for the music the four boys made. They just wanted the boys. But others were able to look past that and actually stop to listen. The Beatles had great music (mainly after their early pop day, although even some of those spring merit). Bonham was focused on Beatlemania. I think he was also someone who didn't actually fully appreciate the music, but from a different perspective than the girls.
You went to a Beatles concert in the 60's to experience "The Personalities" but you went to Zeppelin concert to experience "The Music."
What was that about south east anglers?
Yes they were more sophisticated. The early 60s music was almost comically simple. Zeppelin barely scratches the surface of what the late 60s and early 70s were producing as far as sophisticated pop music goes. Zeppelin's my favorite band mind you, but still. Zeppelin fans back then also like ELP, and Yes etc. I mean this was a miniature Renaissance period for pop music.
No beatles,no british invasion
Who? Stones? Floyd?
@@chaosh7040 who is really anything stunning, Rolling Stones wanted to be The Beatles and would probably be not as popular if they weren’t influenced by them. Pink Floyd maybe would’ve been popular, but probably not. The Beatles did more than people think they did.
@@alien6812 Floyd didn't need the Beatles at all...the were a completely different genra of rock whose influence "Revolution 9" wouldn't exist w/out.
It wasn't the Beatles talent that kept them at #...it was radio censorship only allowing broken heart songs/love songs/happy bubblegum music (the latter 2 being the complete early years of the Beatles) on mainstream radio...which is why it was just them & the Beach Boys at #1 in US & only them in England...because of censorship.
Floyd definitely had some over the top stuff w/Sid Barret but after Gilmore joined they were destined to be heard & the Beatles were more influenced by them (although not publicly acknowledged...just in musical switch) than vice verse.
Kieth Moon was the original thrash drummer ("My Generation" outro & a few other examples) & Who (like Zep & Floyd) just needed to wait for "mainstream" to be uncensored enough to start letting real music be played.
Granted...Beatles musical switch in the later years left the censors in a tough place..."We've declared them #1 all these years & now they go & switch there music style to the same as all those other bands we've been keeping off the top to keep them at #1...guess we gotta starts acknowledging some of those other bands now".
Was never really big on the Stones (some stuff ok but generally not that big of a fan)...just put them in because...but Floyd/Who/Beatles/Stones in that order for actual music talent IMO...but I've never been a big fan of what was allowed on the radio as opposed to the actual good music on the albums that was never allowed to be played...until it finally reached the 25 year mark & got classified as "Classic Music"...& even today it's the same 25 songs on each classic station played over & over w/about 25 other songs randomly switched each few weeks & thrown in for filler for the same 25 songs.
No American Invasion of the UK by way of WWII service member's LPs and acts touring, and no British Invasion. And No Elvis, no Beatles. Yeah, Okay.
Led Zeppelin looked bad ass
I wonder how "The Led Zeppelin" would have reacted all those years ago if they knew back then that we'd be watching them "on the line" all these years later........
Bob Wellings was just too old to rock and roll then. Still young enough now though
Not just "a" Led Zeppelin, but "The" Led Zeppelin.
Funny how the interviewer is talking about how a couple of unknowns had taken over the mantle of the Beatles. By 1970 the Beatles were more or less done but were still huge household names. Now 50 years on Led Zeppelin are themselves household names.
The Beatles are great but Led Zeppelin is Led Zeppelin... Zepps were supergroup which during late 60s and throughout the 70s had best singer, best guitarist, great bassist and the greatest rock drummer eva :)
Touring is part of being the Greatest. The Beatles failed on that Big Time, but Sir Paul McCartney has done his share of massive touring after The Beatles called it quits.
So much more intelligent than the cretinous pop stars of today. Imagine a rapper being that articulate.
this sounds like something a grump old man would say. there are rappers like that, you just don't know enough about music
Yeah, imagine a rapper using words.
What year is this from? thnx!
Note Robert's Van Dyke goatee& mustache.This is probably early '70 before ever going to Wales and getting ideas down for LZIII.
For 1970 and most of '71 all four members wore facial hair. I think Robert shaved first...
led zeppelin changed the course of rock music..
So as The Beatles.
LZ was Music-Music. The Beatles, The Who, and The Rolling Stones were "Personality-Music." Good music, but you see the difference.
Well at least they were polite.
00:44 Austin Powers' long lost Cousin....
Led Zeppelin are surely The Beatles' fans.
groovy
"Dads" are so out of touch with what's cool and groovy. But look who got to actually conduct the interview, Junior.
and Bonham is Simbad, the pirate
As a Zep fan,we can tell this is early'70. So tell a Texican what A Shilling or for that matter what a Grout would have been worth then? And what denominations they were? Any Brits a trolling?
A shilling was 5p (12 old pennies). There were 20 to the pound.
Groats were long gone by 1970 but they had been worth 4d, that is 1 2/3 p.
Shillings stopped being referred to in prices in early 1971 when we "decimalised" (as the US had done 180 years before). So, instead of referring to 3/6 (three shillings and sixpence), we said 17 1/2p. (The 1/2 p coin disappeared in 1983 or so). Instead of £1 10s (also called 30 shillings), we said £1.50, as we do today.
However, the shilling coins continued to be worth 5p until 1990 when the original 5p coin (first brought out in 1968) and the shilling coin, which was the same size but of an earlier design, were replaced with a smaller single 5p coin.
“THE Led Zeppelin.”
'Old squares' always put THE in front of band names. THE Pink Floyd was another one. 'Can you hum the tune?' was another old fashioned question. Interesting that John Bonham doesn't seem to have a Birmingham area accent. Robert Plant still does. It's not so apparent here. Maybe they are trying to hide it. In a BBC interview with Jimmy Page when he was a teenager he had quite a posh accent. Now he has a more generic London one.
Helen Trope Hah, so true! I remember when one of my sisters thought “Led Zeppelin” was a person.
@@heliotropezzz333 BTW...which one's Led?
@@chaosh7040 Led should get together with Pink (Pink Floyd)
@@heliotropezzz333 The Deep Purple...
They knocked the Beatles off in 1970 because the Beatles had broke up by then. They didn't overtake them, the Beatles weren't there to contend for the award.
They would've anyway thrown them off. They beat their attendance records in a heartbeat too.
That was because they had far better equipment by 1970. You need to remember that the Beatles stopped touring in 1965. A lot happened in those 5 years. There's no doubt that they'd be selling out stadiums if they had played them too. In fact, they were the first to ever play a staduim-like venue.
PlsDetox
No Elvis played those before them. The Beatles would not have lived on in the problem ridden 70s, they were way too chirpy and they had a relatively weak command over strong sound production and they weren't heavy enough for the large arenas that drew the audiences in the 70s. As they were saying, the personality cult was dying out. As more and more youngsters were making bands, just being a band was not enough for the beatles. Musicality and ferocity became important and the youth wanted to hear music more than the musicians. People and teenage girls particularly came to see the Beatles in the 60s. That charm had died out after a few years. Zeppelin's stadiums were so large most people couldn't see the band and were that far away. The beatles would've surely sold out audiences, but to imagine them out-seliing Led Zeppelin in the 70s is unimaginable. It's a testament to the fact that people will always support new artists over the same stale music. It is impossible that the Beatles could've been mainstream in the 70s.
Some Teeny pop award is pretty irrelevant but Zeppelin won it anyway because of the first two albums. Either way the Beatles and Zeppelin can only be compared based on popularity and what they did for music but to compare their musical styles would be silly, try to imagine the Beatles playing Achilles Last Stand
+PlsDetox Some of The Beatles most popular songs came out between 1968-1970. To say they were on their way out was a bold statement. Led Zeppelin is much more talented then The Beatles. Led Zeppelin knocked them out when they were still big, The Beatles couldn't have survived the 70's as a top group.
I've often thought about The Beatles abilities compared to other groups what I found throughout my teenagers and 20s and 30s is that there are lots of individuals groups that have made records which might challenge The Beatles or be better than a lot of Beatles songs but the fact is I've listened after listen to LP after LP from Stella rock bands like Led Zeppelin Hendrix AC DC the stones etc the difference is with their albums maybe three tracks are outstanding and the rest of quite ordinary the first Led Zeppelin album I heard was had 3 great tracks fantastic tracks Stairway to Heaven black dog but the rest of the album wasn't that good wheras. with The Beatles
I would say about 2/3 or 3/4 are really high standard and if you really want to argue about the best songs of The Beatles did then they can compare with the best of anybody comparing Please Please Me with Voodoo Child is comparing chalk with cheese comparing Stairway to Heaven With A Day in the Life is possibly more apposite
But the latter song stands up to comparison well with any other great song
Well, they lasted for a dozen of years, that objective is down :)
That's not Ringo. That's BONZO!
Jam Baxter anyone?
This guy must feel like he's interviewing two unfrozen neaderthal specimens.
🤣🤣🤣
lol "The Led Zeppelin"
It's cool, it's groovy, it's number one, the led zeppelin.
can the interviewer just shut up and let the damn guy talk???
A longer interview would have been nice.
You could almost see the patronising attitude to this piece. The Led Zeppelin. Honestly?
The twits were too used the Pop countdowns of bands like The Who, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones. Zeppelin broke the Pop naming mold, as did Pink Floyd.
leginds
It's odd that they were supposed to be something new as opposed to the personality cult, yet none of the beatles kept an aura about themselves as Robert Plant used to live.. I mean they invented the idea of a "Rock God". Hell, he even called himself "golden god of rock". They reallly paid a lot more attention to what their audiences were "seeeing" compared to the beatles. I find it an irony
Lol, you can't really blame the interviewer, remember The Beatles and Elvis were met with the same type of skepticism or bewilderment from the press in their days. Many considered the way Elvis shook his hips as vulgar,, and thought the Beatles had long hair, lol
1970
funny as shit parody
This was more about the Beatles, uhg
Bonham didn’t last too long did he!
3:27 Bonzo has the right idea.
Yeah, but giving the Beatles as an example of this is the most retarded thing I’ve heard anyone say.
@@alien6812 Indeed.
I love Led Zeppelin but always felt it a pity and totally unnecessary how much of their early album cuts were stolen material.
Blame Jimmy Page when Ritchie Blackmore told John Bonham that their material was a copycat, Bonham was upset at Page. I believe Jimmy have done this behind Plant, Jones, and Bonham's backs.
The Beatles had their day, then went away. Had they continued to tour and not quit on the crowd like they did, they might have been able to continue as a top band. Maybe, maybe not. They might have seen the writing on the wall that bands like the Stones, Zep, Pink Floyd, The Doors etc...were eclipsing them. One thing's for sure, none of the Beatles made music worth a damn after the breakup save a few songs from Lennon & Harrison.
HumanRiff69 I think the Beatles were being Out Rocked and they knew it. Zeppelin, theStones, Hendrix, Cream, they were all Blues Bands. TheBeatles followed Chuck Berry and Little Richard while other bands copied Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf. George didn't go Rock, he went Revival.
Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed
How many Beatle songs are featured on Rock Star Video Games vs. other bands??