10 Legendary Artists That Never Saw Their Last Music Record Come Out

10. Coda - Led Zeppelin

The dissolution around Led Zeppelin's breakup was more about being realistic than anything else. The idea of replacing John Bonham behind the drum kit was never going to work no matter how talented the drummer was, and it was only natural for the band to call it a day when one of them ended up passing away. That didn't mean that we didn't at least have a few scraps left over from the past few years.

Released right at the start of the '80s, Coda almost feels like more of an odds and ends collection of what Led Zeppelin were up to in between recording their masterpieces, including alternate versions of classic songs like I Can't Quit You Baby. Aside from the actual demo material, some songs like Ozone Baby and Walter's Walk do a good job and showing us where their head was at at the time, trying to find a way to incorporate their bluesy sound into the next generation with different synthesizer sounds they were touching on on In Through the Out Door.

Since he's no longer with us though, this is just as much a love letter to Bonzo as it is a proper album, with one track being comprised of one of his many amazing drum solos, put together from different live cuts that he'd done from touring off and on. There was no way for Led Zeppelin to actually continue in any capacity, but Coda offers up the alternate reality of what the fathers of heavy rock might have looked like in the MTV generation.