Zeppelin

performing music. Ways that had never been seen or heard before. Artists who would never have been popularized a decade earlier were finding a following in the free spirited 1960’s culture. Artists like Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and Led Zeppelin all took and borrowed from their contemporaries. For a through line, The Beatles will be used to highlight the prominent cultural and musical trends that were exhibited by themselves and other artists searching for a…

disaster started the end of the airship transportation. There was a total of ninety two people on the Hindenburg at the time that it crashed. The Hindenburg had a smoking lounge despite being filled with hydrogen at the time. The gas cells for earlier zeppelins were made of goldbeaters skin (the outer membrane of cattle intestines) the cells aboard the Hindenburg used a new material, similar to that used by Americans, which was made by brushing layers of gelatin onto a sheet of cotton; this…

There are many historical events that contributed greatly towards Albert Speer however, there are three events in which were significant, these include his early work for the Nazi Party, the Germania project and the new Reich Chancellery and finally, his work as armaments Minister. It is through these events, that lead Speer to the almighty powerful ‘architect’ he is record to be in history. Through Speers early work in the Nazi Party, it led to his first commissions, which was to renovate the…

and that were credited with the title of “Heavy Metal” would be bands like Black Sabbath, who broke out into the newly formed metal scene with their single “Paranoid” in 1970, Led Zeppelin, who gained mainstream commercial success with their albums Led Zeppelin 1-4 in 1969-1971, and also Deep Purple, who with Zeppelin and Sabbath, formed “The Unholy Trinity of hard rock and heavy metal bands in the early to mid-1970’s”. Many bands over the next few years evolved the sound and then you get bands…

to this distinctions better hard rock and heavy metal styles are usually subtle and often more determined by a bands image rather than its songs. The two genres have some crossovers. Heavy metal pioneers such as Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin are are often considered to be both hard rock bands and heavy metal bands. Where Nazareth, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Status QUO and Guns N’ Roses and KISS are normally referred to as just hard rock bands and not heavy metal bands. One of the heavy…

This leads to people openly comparing white and black music and noticing these contrasting lyrics although the messages are the same. As a case in point, about fifty years ago, in 1969, Led Zeppelin released “Whole Lotta Love.” “Whole Lotta Love” became one of the most popular rock songs that a lot of people do not even know is about sex because of the extensive use of signifying, or singing lyrics about something noncontroversial but with a…

replaced by decibels it is hard to hear errors on an electric guitar. Let’s look at Led Zeppelin who took the killing floor from Howling Wolf “Ultimately, I wanted Zeppelin to be a marriage of blues, hard rock and acoustic music,” guitarist Jimmy Page once explained. “Between unique adaptations, clever arrangements and more than a few borrowed lyrics and melody lines – hats off here to Willie Dixon – Led Zeppelin returned to a full well of blues music for inspiration throughout the entirety of…

military targets, and British civilians were forced to hide underground, where it was safe. Germany took advantage of their new weapon and dropped 27 air raids on them. Finally able to fight back in 1916, Britain’s planes were enough to challenge the Zeppelins. Britain and Germany went on battling through air attack, and eventually, the Allied forces won because the United States joined the war and inhibited Germany from receiving food (The First Modern War Video). This shows how the improvement…

building airships became very popular, and Germany quickly became the most developed and impressive builders of this type of lighter-than-air innovation. A German businessman, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin was one of the leading inventors who build many experimental dirigibles. The Hindenburg was one of Zeppelin and Ludwig Dürr’s most successful airship. By 1936, the Hindenburg had concluded ten very successful trips which made it very popular and well known. Therefore, when the Hindenburg…

Today, May 6th, we remember the devastating tragedy from over half a century ago. It has been almost 80 years since the Nazi propaganda aircraft, the Hindenburg Zeppelin, burned and crashed taking several lives on its way down. This day, every year we remember the lives lost and the death of the largest and most magnificent aircraft ever constructed. The Hindenburg, a Nazi propaganda mission, was constructed from 1931-1936 in Germany. It completed hundreds of successful missions without…