Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin performing at the Empire Pool in London. Michael Putland/Getty Images hide caption

Robert Plant. Mads Perch/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin are defendants in a copyright lawsuit that accuses their band of lifting music from the song "Taurus" by the Los Angeles band Spirit. Laurance Ratner/WireImage hide caption

John Paul Jones, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. The band's "Stairway to Heaven" is the subject of a current copyright-infringement lawsuit. Danny Martindale/Getty Images hide caption

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Jimmy Page is remastering and reissuing all of the Led Zeppelin albums, along with previously unreleased recordings. Ross Halfin/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Robert Plant's new album is lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar. Ed Miles/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Lisa Robinson interviews a young Michael Jackson at his family's house in Encino, Calif., in October 1972. Andrew Kent/Courtesy of Riverhead Books hide caption

British rockers Led Zeppelin pose in front of their private plane, dubbed "The Starship," in 1973. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption

As the NPR Music team and others prepared to leave the network's old headquarters, mysterious messages began appearing on the windows and walls: "Everything will be better!" Mito Habe-Evans/NPR hide caption

The fictional band from This Is Spinal Tap plays a real-life concert in 1984. Nigel Tufnel, the guitarist played by Christopher Guest, favored amplifiers whose volume could be cranked up to 11. Ebet Roberts/Redferns hide caption

A levee on the Mississippi River in Louisiana during the Great Flood of 1927. Hulton Archives/Getty Images hide caption

As a boy, Robert Plant marveled at the voices of Smokey Robinson and James Brown on the radio. Getty Images hide caption