Led Zeppelin Talk about The Beatles

Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and Robert Plant talk about the Beatles in 3 different interviews

3 times when Led Zeppelin members talked about The Beatles!

Which of these two legendary bands is your favorite and why? Let me know in the comments 🙂

Long before Led Zeppelin existed, Jimmy Page was already one of the busiest session guitarists in London, cutting tracks for hire right through the height of Beatlemania in the mid-1960s. That overlap gave Page a front-row seat to the Beatles’ rise, watching from inside the same recording studios and industry circles as the group redefined what a rock band could be.

The timing between the two bands lines up almost perfectly. Led Zeppelin formed in 1968, just as the Beatles were entering their final, most experimental years together before splitting in 1970. In a sense, Zeppelin picked up the torch of British rock just as the group that had carried it through the decade was setting it down — two acts from the same scene, a few years apart, both reshaping the sound of a generation.

Over the years, both Jimmy Page and Robert Plant have spoken publicly, in various interviews and documentaries, about how much the Beatles shaped the British music scene they came up in — not just as songwriters, but as a template for what a band from the UK could accomplish on a global scale. Their comments have ranged from technical admiration for the group’s studio innovations to broader reflections on the cultural weight the Beatles carried in the 1960s.

https://youtu.be/IBExMI0r5rQ

The video below captures Page and Plant addressing the Beatles directly, in their own words. Give it a watch, and let us know in the comments which of these two legendary bands means more to you — and why.