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Oct 2019
46m 8s

Led Zeppelin: Dark Power, Cocaine, Backs...

Double Elvis Productions
About this episode

Led Zeppelin were the biggest band on the planet. The great white shark of the seventies. They defined excess. They designed the avatar for the heavy metal rock star: themselves. Along the way there were violent brawls, car crashes, lots of cocaine, alcohol, satanic sexual rituals and a very freaked out David Bowie.

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