The band was originally formed in 1968 by guitarist Jimmy Page under the name "The New Yardbirds," based on Page's previous band, The Yardbirds. While The New Yardbirds arose at first simply to fulfill some performance commitments booked in Scandinavia before the original band's break-up, Page attempted to create a rock-supergroup out of the new band, which would have been composed of the Yardbirds' own Page and Jeff Beck, The Who's Keith Moon and John Entwistle(who were considering leaving their band), and possibly Steve Winwoodor Steve Marriott. After Page's attempt at forming a supergroup failed, Page filled the band with vocalist Robert Plant, drummer John Bonham and former Yardbirds bassist Chris Dreja. After Dreja left early in the project to become a photographer (and would later take the photograph that appeared on the back of the group's debut album), he was replaced by Page's long-time friend and fellow London recording session player John Paul Jones. Page's first choice as singer, Terry Reid, declined the opportunity but unselfishly recommended Plant, who accepted and then brought in his old friend Bonham from the defunct Band Of Joy.
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Led Zeppelin
(page/plant)
Ive been to london, seen seven wonders. I know to trip is just to fall
I used to rock it, sometimes Id roll it. I always knew what it was for.
There can be no denyin that the wind ll shake em down
And the flat worlds flyin. theres a new plague on the land
If we could just join hands (x3)
Traversed the planet when heaven sent me. I saw the kings who rule them all
Still by the firelight and purple moonlight. I hear the rested rivers call
And the wind is crying, from a love that wont grow cold
My lover, she is lying, on the dark side of the globe
If we could just join hands (x3)
You got me rockin when I ought to be a-rollin
Darlin, tell me, darlin, which way to go
You keep me rockin, baby, then you keep me stolen
Wont you tell me, darlin, which way to go... thats right
Oh how I wonder, oh how I worry and I would dearly like to know
Ive all this wonder of earthly plunder will it leave us anything to show
And our time is flyin see the candle burnin low
Is the new world rising, from the shambles of the old
If we could just join hands.