Led Zeppelin/Trivia

• Creator Backlash:
  • Robert Plant has come to abhor the band's classic song, "Stairway to Heaven" - and refuses to play it in concerts.
  • Jimmy Page has also stated that he hates "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)", saying it was just written as filler ^[1] and making it one of the few Led Zeppelin songs never performed live. Doesn't stop classic rock stations from keeping it in heavy rotation to this day (usually following "Heartbreaker", since there was no real gap between the songs on the original album).
  • Then, to round things out, John Paul Jones is said to have never been too fond of the song "D'yer Mak'er".
  • That leaves John Bonham as the only member who had no dislike for something.
• Hipgnosis: Did the cover art for Houses of the Holy, Presence, The Song Remains the Same, In Through the Out Door and Coda.
• Name's the Same: Many examples, musical or not. Among them are:
  • John Paul Jones: A naval commander from The American Revolution.
    • John Baldwin, his real name: a figure skater.
  • "Heartbreaker" is not the Pat Benatar song.
    • Or a Dionne Warwick song.
    • Or a Mariah Carey song.
  • "Friends" is unrelated to the show.
  • "Stairway to Heaven" was recorded by Neil Sedaka in The Sixties.
• The Other Darrin: Jason Bonham, John's son, has filled in on drums in the handful of live performances the group has done since his death.
• Trope Namers:
  • The Song Remains the Same
  • Stairway to Heaven
  • Trampled Underfoot
• Urban Legend of Zelda: The alleged Satanic messages when "Stairway to Heaven" is played backwards.
• What Could Have Been: Zepp - or at at least, Peter Grant - turned down an invitation for the band to perform at the original Woodstock.
  • A tour planned in August 1975 got cancelled when Robert Plant got injured in an accident in Greece. The group recorded Presence instead.

1. ↑ Probably didn't help that his girlfriend ended up hating it as well