THE LED ZEPPELIN REVIEWS
What follows are reprints of every Led Zeppelin album review CREEM has run. Because Led Zeppelin, the band's debut LP, was issued in January 1969, and the first CREEM came in March of that year, no review of that disc is included. Instead, the closest we’ve come was in CREEM Vol. 1, No. 1—Pam Brent's piece on Zep’s debut at Detroit's Grande Ballroom, which is reprinted in this Special Edition on page 7.
THE LED ZEPPELIN REVIEWS
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What follows are reprints of every Led Zeppelin album review CREEM has run. Because Led Zeppelin, the band's debut LP, was issued in January 1969, and the first CREEM came in March of that year, no review of that disc is included. Instead, the closest we’ve come was in CREEM Vol. 1, No. 1—Pam Brent's piece on Zep’s debut at Detroit's Grande Ballroom, which is reprinted in this Special Edition on page 7. Meanwhile, read what 10 years worth of CREEM writers had to say about Led Zeppelin...
LED ZEPPELIN Led Zeppelin II (Atlantic)
Led Zeppelin is the best living English sTiperfunk band. Cream is dead and Traffic’s gone left them here to sing that song. Champions by default. Yes and whatever happened to Jeff Beck anyway who I guess they started out to be and turned out better than. It isn’t apparent at the first few listenings but yes they’re taking all those predictabilities and often cliches to new levels. I do believe that Stones, Beatles aside they’re the best rock ’n’ roll band in the world.