40 Years Ago: Led Zeppelin release their eponymous debut album through Atlantic Records on January 12, 1969. Despite being a commercial triumph and lauded by anyone with a decent music taste today, upon its release the record received some damning reviews. The Rolling Stone in particular blasted it for being to inferior to the Jeff Beck Group and called Robert Plant “as foppish as Rod Stewart, but nowhere near as exciting.” Doh!
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