The Real Story Behind The Names Of Music's Most Iconic Bands - Page 8 of 78

Led Zeppelin

A collaboration between Keith Moon and John Entwistle, members of The Who, with Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones helped make music history. They had joined together on a song from Jeff Beck called “Beck’s Bolero,” in 1966 and started the conversation about creating a new group.

When Jones, John Bonham, and Robert Plant decided to make a band in 1968, Jimmy Page remembered a joke that Moon or Entwistle had said “that it would go over like a lead balloon.” And thus Led Zeppelin was born.