To celebrate the 45th anniversary of Houses of the Holy, we took six of our writers to the top of a mountain and asked them five questions about Led Zeppelin's classic album. Here are their responses.

Led Zeppelin’s homage to James Brown proved to be a bold experiment. It also happens to be the worst Houses of the Holy song. It has a promising start. John Bonham flashes his drumming chops with a ...

Led Zeppelin kicked off their fifth album with a track called "The Song Remains the Same." But that was a lie. Critics, as usual, drew their swords when the album -- whose release was delayed to get ...

Houses of the Holy might have been Led Zeppelin’s brightest album. The sharp production mirrored the positive vibes of many of the songs. Heavy electric blues, a staple of the first four albums, ...

Following the 1-2-3 punch of its first three albums—first released between January 1969 and October 1970 and reissued in June, 2014 as the first batch of a year-long series of overdue (and expanded) ...

Veiled blues, shimmering acoustic guitars, James Brown funk, quasi-reggae, a little jazz -- Zeppelin's first post-"Stairway" LP, released March 29, 1973, captured the band at its most playful and ...

It’s easy to forget just how quickly Led Zeppelin went from sharply juxtaposing blues thump with delicate folk on their debut to blending the two sounds seamlessly at once. After releasing three ...

The band wrapped up their Australian tour in 1972 and used the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio to start working on the album. Many of the songs had already been worked out before they sat down to record, ...

James Christian says Led Zeppelin helped him explore new techniques, new sounds, and new themes in his own music. James Christian: My favorite record was and still is Led Zeppelin. I was 16 years old ...

Earlier this week it was reported that Facebook had banned posts containing Led Zeppelin’s iconic Houses of the Holy album cover. Now, though, the social network is reversing course. In a statement to ...

It takes a certain sense of courage to cover a Led Zeppelin song, and it takes a whole new level of courage to cover a Led Zeppelin song and reshape it completely. So H.C. McEntire is a brave person.

James Christian of veteran hard rockers House of Lords talks about how Led Zeppelin “got beyond the limits of rock ’n’ roll.” James Christian: My favorite record was and still is Led Zeppelin. I was ...