Bruce Dickinson’s Favorite Led Zeppelin Song

The singer of the Iron MaidenBruce Dickinson He was born in 1958, so he was a teenager in the early seventies when hard rock took hold. Among these bands were obviously the Led Zeppelina group that influenced him a lot. In 2016, in an interview with Metal Hammer magazine, he revealed that he had always been a bigger fan of Deep Purple that of the Led Zeppelinthis did not prevent him from stating that the band composed of Plant, Page, Jones and Bonham was among the most influential for his musical education.

Of all the songs of the Led Zeppelin There was one he loved above all the others: “Ramble On”. “I’ve always been a bigger Purple fan than Zeppelin. But I never saw Zeppelin or Purple live when I was a kid, when they were in their heyday. Zeppelin was adopted by American radio stations. But I have to confess that what I loved most about Zeppelin was their English folk roots. Not their copies of American blues tunes. “Ramble On” is one of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs.”

“Ramble On”
It was written by
Jimmy Page
And
Robert Plant
and is included in the British band’s second album from 1969
“Led Zeppelin II”
(
read the review here
). An album that can rightly be defined as ‘epochal’ which contained other songs such as
“Whole Lotta Love”, “Thank You”, “Living Loving Maid (She’s Just A Woman)”
And
“Moby Dick”

.

In 2000, Dickinson told Metal Rules that he believed
Robert Plant, Paul Rodgers
And
Ian Gillan
were the basis for the heavy metal singing style. “There are basically 3 bases for the metal singing style. If you combine the look of these three singers, you have it all. These three singers are Robert Plant, Ian Gillan and Paul Rodgers.”

Bruce Dickinson
had the chance to do a cover of the
Led Zeppelin
when the
Iron Maiden
engraved
“Communication
Breakdown”
(from
“Led Zeppelin I”
(from 1969) as the B-side of their 1990 single
“Bring Your Daughter To the Slaughter”
.