10 Bands To Listen To If You Love Led Zeppelin
9. Heart
Although the origins of Heart date back to the late 1960s (when they were known as The Army), they weren’t full contemporaries of Led Zeppelin because their first studio LP – Dreamboat Annie – didn’t come out until 1975.
Even so, that debut record is packed full of the same sort of powerful yet sensitive singing and dynamic instrumentation. Actually, its third single, Crazy on You, outdoes many Zeppelin staples due to its sing-along forcefulness and sophisticatedly malleable arrangement.
Elsewhere, the album is ripe with comparably bold seduction (Magic Man), folk rock whimsy (Dreamboat Annie), and empowering immediacy (White Lightning & Wine).
To be fair, Heart moved into commercial pop rock and glam metal territory as they approached the mid-80s, yet even those collections feature tracks that any Led Zeppelin aficionado will enjoy (such as Together Now, The Wolf, and There’s the Girl). They don’t measure up to the band’s 1970s output, for sure, but they still scratch the same itch to certain degrees.
Of course, they also earn credibility and recommendation for their awesome versions of Rock and Roll and Stairway to Heaven, as well as the fact that 1995’s live sequence, The Road Home, was produced by John Paul Jones.