The immediate success of the first album kick-started the band's career, especially in the United States, where they would frequently tour and where their album sales totals are second only to the Beatles. Its combination of blues and rock influences with distorted amplification made it one of the pivotal records in the evolution of heavy metal music. Shortly after their first tour, the group's first eponymous album was released on January 12, 1969. These reports are backed up by ads in Swedish newspapers of the period, in which they are billed as The Yardbirds, and even an autographed photograph of the band with the word Yardbirds signed next to each name (the word New being conspicuously absent). Fans who attended those early Scandinavian shows have indicated that the band was billed simply as The Yardbirds in 1968. Note: Although the story about Led Zeppelin playing under the name 'The New Yardbirds' is so common as to be nearly canonical, there is actually some controversy about this. The word 'lead' is misspelled deliberately to avoid confusion, fearing Americans might pronounce it 'lead Zeppelin' (as in 'lead singer'), as opposed to a zeppelin constructed of lead.
Bassist John Paul Jones was informed by his wife that Page was forming a group Jones and Page knew each other well from their days as session musicians and Jones contacted Page who asked him then to join the band.Īfter some concerts as the New Yardbirds, the band's name was changed to Led Zeppelin, after Keith Moon, drummer with The Who, said, 'With that lineup you'll go down like a lead balloon'. Plant brought with him drummer John Bonham. Vocalist Robert Plant, known from his work with The Band of Joy, was himself on the verge of a record deal when Page saw him perform at West Midlands College of Education with a pickup band of art students and drafted him into the new band. The band was originally formed in 1968 by guitarist Jimmy Page under the name The New Yardbirds in order to fulfill some performance commitments booked in Scandinavia before the break up of the original Yardbirds.
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