Founded in 2012, LedZepNews is the leading unofficial and independent source of news about Led Zeppelin. For more than a decade, we have broken major stories about the band and its members and published longform investigative journalism.

Our journalism has been referred to in The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, The Telegraph, The Daily Mirror, The Verge, NME and Classic Rock Magazine.

We’ve also published hundreds of previously unseen photographs of Led Zeppelin and shared hundreds of pages of unseen documents about the band’s history.

The LedZepNews website has been viewed more than 8 million times since its launch in 2017 and the LedZepNews Substack is one of the most popular music newsletters on the site since its launch in 2023.

LedZepNews is run by James Cook, an experienced journalist with more than 10 years of media experience including working as a special correspondent at a leading UK national newspaper.

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LedZepNews does not support or promote the sale of bootleg records. While this site reports on bootleg releases, we do so because of their newsworthiness, not to encourage readers to purchase the items. We do not publish links to purchase bootleg recordings.

Here are some highlights from our reporting:

• The Day on the Green Files: Unseen documents reveal the full impact of Led Zeppelin’s 1977 backstage violence
• Exclusive: NYPD files on robbery of $180,000 from Led Zeppelin revealed after 50 years
• The mystery of where Led Zeppelin first rehearsed together has been solved after 56 years
• Revealed: Led Zeppelin’s full 1968 recording contract
• The complete history of The Starship, the Boeing 720 plane used by Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Elton John and more
• Revealed: Jimmy Page’s secret 18-year battle to reclaim his most iconic stage outfits
• The previously untold history of Willie Dixon’s legal battle with Led Zeppelin over ‘Whole Lotta Love’
• The history of Jimmy Page’s Equinox occult bookshop
• The intricate global network of companies behind Led Zeppelin’s 1977 US tour
• Inside Peter Whitehead’s Filming of Led Zeppelin in 1970 And The 52-Year Journey To Its Release
• The bizarre history of Led Zeppelin’s official rollercoaster and the doomed Hard Rock Park
• The Rossminster Affair: How Led Zeppelin tried to use a Shakespearean theatre charity to avoid paying tax
• How a rainstorm transformed Led Zeppelin’s Tampa 1977 show into a riot

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