Originally posted by cking
it would have to come down to areosmith and led zeppelin. zeppelin had one smash hit "stairway to heaven" which was in the seventies. that song was hard to beat during its time. none of areosmith's songs was as good as that. led zeppelin was a Little older band and they started in the mid sixties. they band broke up in the early eighties after their lead singer died of alcohol poisoning in a drinking binge. when he died so did led zeppelin. This fate happened to another band that wasn't considered a rock group. lynard skynard was a popular band in the seventies until in 1977 a plane crash in a woods changed everything. Ronnie van was the lead singer and song writer for the group, he died and so did others and after that lynard skynard was never heard of again. led zeppelin was a hot group in the seventies while aerosmith was descent. but when zeppelin broke up, areosmith took over and the eighties was the decade for areosmith.
Stairway to Heaven their only hit? Appareantly you've never heard Communication Breakdown, or Kashmir.
Originally posted by alcoholicpoetJohn Henry Bonham, the drummer, was the guy that died in the alcohol overdose.
And, on a side note,Robert Plant, lead vocals for Led Zeppelin, alive and breathing in the 90s. He didn't die.
To add some of Led's 'only' hits:
Over the Hills and Far Away
Kashmir
The Ocean
Heartbreaker
Ramble On
White Summer/Black Mountain Side
Black Dog
Ten Years Gone
Just a small list, mainly because I don't really rate songs like Communication Breakdown and Whole Lotta Love.