Why? Who?

Max Kaye

Odd indeed. You must have been wasting your youth supporting the Labour Party and other silly causes. Those of us who were natural conservatives could enjoy the good things that life had to offer.

PJD

Perhaps it is because LZ did not release the popular songs from their albums as singles in the UK. But surely you must be familiar with Stairway to Heaven and Whole Lotta Love. The latter was used as the theme for top of the pops for many years.

Joshua

No doubt your children will: loathe horse racing and football; love tennis, fiction, heavy metal, jazz and McD's; prefer to chew nails than have to sit in a room where classical music is playing; have absolutely no interest in politics; eventually become Haredi.

Tiberius

I find myself having similar sentiments to you, Stephen. While many of my schoolfriends were eulogizing LZ and other bands like ELP and Yes, I was engaged in soul and R&B, although Matt does claim LZ did R&B too. (R&B lite, perhaps? Or should that be heavy?).

Scipio

My feelings are the same regarding Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars, and The Matrix.

Neil Turner

I agree When I was at school in the early 70's, we used to write the names of our favourite groups on the covers of our Rough Books. Only really weird people had groups like Led Zep, Pink Floyd etc. Most sane kids had Rod Stewart, The Sweet, Showaddywaddy or Earth Wind and Fire. I once bought a LedZep album to try to get in with the incrowd, but it soon resigned to the bin This position was completely vindicated some years later when I found out about the backward masking and subliminal messages on Stairway to Heaven

Verity

Ihave never (knowingly) heard one of their songs either. I'm also with Scipio. There's a whole swathe of life I have always instinctively known was never going to appeal to me. I haven't read The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, either.

Steve

I call the genre PAP - Pre-adolescent puerile.

archie wedderspoon

Why is Led Zeppelin? And why are so many people, some of them not visibly barking, so sold on him, or them, or it?