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I guess if you want to measure the true difference between classic rock<\/a> of old and contemporary music of today, you would just need to turn on the radio, right? <\/p>\n Besides the odd online radio station, it\u2019s mostly used these days to peddle commercial bubblegum crap, with fans accepting the fact that they have to go digging themselves, if they want to find good music. But in decades past, authenticity and commercialism were more seamlessly merged. The term \u201cradio edit\u201d wasn\u2019t yet a thing and so musicians were given free-reign to drench their songs in whatever experimentalism they liked. <\/p>\n In the 1960s, musicians largely had The Beatles<\/a> to thank for this. The Fab Four hammered down the wall of sensibility, allowing a myriad of esoteric and innovative ideas to follow along with them. By the time they split and the 1970s beckoned, it was open season for anyone with half a creative mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n But between the powerful four members that made up Led Zeppelin, there was more than half a mind. There were four groundbreaking creatives, ready to turn the new dawn of music on its head. From the moment they released their self-titled debut album<\/a>, it was clear that this band were operating on their own steam, driving a new identity of rock and roll forward, replacing whatever void fans might have felt from the dissolution of The Beatles. By no means were they a replacement. They were just the new kids on the block.<\/p>\n That being said, there was perhaps one artistic trope, they borrowed from their predecessors. \u201cWe were more concerned with diversity, self-satisfaction, creativity,\u201d Robert Plant explained. \u201cSo, really, there was nobody to compete with, because we were trying to entertain ourselves first and foremost, with no intentional stab at a pretty song for a pretty song\u2019s sake.\u201d<\/p>\n Adding, \u201cFrom the beginning, really, it was a group policy that singles were not to be considered, that the whole game would be that if you wanted to find out about Led Zeppelin, you had to get into the whole thing. We would not put out singles as calling cards.\u201d<\/p>\n