For bands, navigating the previous can usually be a difficult enterprise. In some instances, there may be an avowed refusal to have interaction in something aside from the work in entrance of them – as if stopping to look again will one way or the other derail hard-won ahead momentum. In others, it may be someplace they’d quite not revisit; a spot of dangerous recollections or tough circumstances. For Led Zeppelin, the previous is a supply of extraordinary triumphs but in addition, finally, nice loss. How, in different phrases, do you reconcile the nice instances with the dangerous instances?
For this month’s cowl story, we’ve reunited Robert Plant, Jimmy Web page and John Paul Jones for a sequence of unique interviews to have fun the fiftieth anniversary of Bodily Graffiti – the immense double album that marked the loftiest peak of their formidable imperial section. The three musicians take us far contained in the album – however alongside the best way, the story turns into unexpectedly reflective. It’s not merely that, 50 years on, Bodily Graffiti continues to work its highly effective magic on its principals. However because it deepens, our cowl story usually appears like an intricate research of the relationships between Plant, Web page and Jones because it unfolds in Headley Grange, on the world’s largest levels or within the wilds of Morocco; three very totally different folks whose ardour for the work they achieved collectively stays as sturdy and unifying as ever. “I used to be by no means an amazing fan of different bands,” insists John Paul Jones. “I didn’t actually go to concert events. I didn’t take heed to different bands. I wasn’t as a result of I wasn’t in them. I used to be a fan of Led Zeppelin, as a result of I used to be in it.”
Elsewhere, there’s new interviews with Jason Isbell, Bryan Ferry, The Waterboys‘ Mike Scott, Metal Pulse, Maddy Prior, Destroyer, the Intercourse Pistols and Valerie June, whereas David Bowie‘s closest collaborators elevate the lid on an early ‘Berlin’ period basic, the survivors revisit hippie stronghold Center Earth, Mick Jones shares his memorabilia assortment and a clutch of luminaries together with Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams and Adam Granduciel recreate Blood On The Tracks as Dylan’s 1975 masterpiece turns 50.