Magical Mystery tour came out and the world went.... 
The the beachboys did Pet sounds....
Those 2 albums changed music as we know it,multi tracking,run tape backwards,sampleing...didnt know they were doing that but they did!
Then several years later some group did an album about the Darkside and again the world went....
This is not to say Zepplin isnt in the class of these guys because Zep IV certainly made most go....
IMHO Alice Bowie is the greatest!!!!!
more then the fourth Album made em go
im old now a days and cant remember all the records they broke, but I know they are the most requested band ever.
they broke ALL the beatles records for attendance.
A lot of people who hate Zeppelin-pure case of envy, because they are so popular now and for the last 40 years...even though they haven't put out a Album in...what 1980......When they were together they were the most dissed band in America by the critics, they hated on Zepp bad....they were banned from many a city. ( this was mostly due to the riots that accompanied their concerts)
many many musicians state Zeppelin as their influences....Ive been around, I am not some regular dood, Ive tattooed probably over 50,000 people, maybe double that
I have met many a band member and so many of them list Zepp as the best....
every band today owes Led Zeppelin.....EVERYONE in the music business owes them..why?....you ask....before Zeppelin the Arena and record companies took most of the money made by the band playing there. it was Peter Grant, Zeppelin's manager that changed all that, he forced them to give more money to the bands and then when the record companies didn't wanna play ball he went and made his own record company.
I don't know, whatever, I do know that I personally absolutely love Zeppelin, they do not have one bad song, NOT one....I can listen to them every day and never get tired of hearing them.
