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Not only did the story of Led Zeppelin <\/a>end with tragedy, but it ended with finality. This may sound silly on the surface. You don\u2019t really get much more final than the tragic passing of a band member, and the death of John Bonham absolutely shattered the group at their core\u2014except, as a number of the peers surrounding the biggest hard rock band of all time proved, that this is absolutely not the case. <\/p>\n The Who continued after losing half their classic line-up; AC\/DC only became Led Zeppelin\u2019s closest contender to the title of \u201cbiggest hard rock band of all time\u201d after not only losing a band member but also their singer to boot. However, more than most bands of their time, Led Zeppelin was a band bigger than the sum of their parts. <\/p>\n While the majority of their songs are Jimmy Page and Robert Plant compositions (when they weren\u2019t ripping off bluesmen of the 1950s, natch), the arrangements always came from the band as a whole. Bassist John Paul Jones <\/a>and Bonham were as important to the band\u2019s sound as anyone else, and it just wouldn\u2019t work without them. So, naturally, the moment they lost one of them, the band was done. <\/p>\n You wouldn\u2019t know it listening to their final single as an active band, \u2018Fool in the Rain\u2019, though. The song was recorded in 1978, when the band\u2019s personal lives were at their worst. Page and Bonham were totally at the mercy of their addictions, with Robert Plant reeling the worst of all of them after losing his five-year-old son the previous year. Despite this, the song is an absolute joy on the surface. <\/p>\n What inspired the Led Zeppelin song \u2018Fool in the Rain\u2019? <\/p>\n