Zep drummer John Bonham died on Sept. 25, 1980. A day of hard drinking as the band rehearsed for a North American tour led to him dying in his sleep. Jimmy Page revealed Led Zeppelin could never ...
When John Bonham died in September 1980, there was no future for Led Zeppelin as a working band. As John Paul Jones later put it, Bonham was not just the drummer; he was “a quarter” of Zeppelin (and a ...