{"id":169383,"date":"2025-12-05T11:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/169383\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:25:12","slug":"on-this-day-in-1980-one-of-the-biggest-rock-bands-in-history-officially-called-it-quits-after-suffering-a-tragic-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/169383\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in 1980, One of the Biggest Rock Bands in History Officially Called It Quits After Suffering a Tragic Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day (December 4) in 1980, members of <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/tag\/led-zeppelin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Led Zeppelin<\/a> released an official statement announcing the end of the band. The decision came months after the death of drummer John Bonham.<\/p>\n<p>Led Zeppelin formed in 1968. In 12 short years, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham changed the face of rock and roll forever. Their heavy, blues-based brand of rock influenced nearly every band to come after them. Their reign over the music world came to a tragic end on September 25, 1980, when Jones and the band\u2019s tour manager found Bonham unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/on-this-day-in-1969-led-zeppelin-released-one-of-the-greatest-rock-albums-of-all-time-and-inspired-many-inferior-groups-to-imitate-their-style\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">[RELATED: On This Day in 1969, Led Zeppelin Released One of the Greatest Rock Albums of All Time and \u201cInspired Many Inferior Groups To Imitate Their Style\u201d]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After Bonham\u2019s tragic passing, the band canceled their forthcoming North American tour. Additionally, the surviving members did their best to stay out of the public eye as they mourned their friend and bandmate.<\/p>\n<p>While they didn\u2019t announce it until months later, Led Zeppelin died with Bonham.<\/p>\n<p>Led Zeppelin Calls It Quits After Their Tragic Loss<\/p>\n<p>A little more than two months after John Bonham\u2019s passing, the members of Led Zeppelin released a joint statement outlining their decision and the reasoning behind it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish it to be known that the loss of our dear friend, and the deep sense of undivided harmony felt by ourselves and our manager, have led us to decide that we could not continue on as we were,\u201d the statement read, in part.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Page explained their decision to disband in a 2014 interview. \u201cLed Zeppelin wasn\u2019t a corporate entity. Led Zeppelin was an affair of the heart,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rhino.com\/article\/this-day-in-1980-led-zeppelin-disband\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">said<\/a>. \u201cEach of the members was important to the sum total of what we were. I like to think that if it had been me that wasn\u2019t there, the others would have made the same decision. And what were were going to do? Create a role for somebody, say, \u2018You have to do this, this way\u2019? That wouldn\u2019t be honest,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Featured Image by Dick Barnatt\/Redferns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this day (December 4) in 1980, members of Led Zeppelin released an official statement announcing the end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[25615,156,15132,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-169383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-classic-rock","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-led-zeppelin","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}