This time, Zeppelin's tour director fired a gun at journalists

How was Led Zeppelin different from the Beatles? There are too many ways to count. However, you can start by looking at the approach of both groups on tour. In the case of the Fab Four, they stopped playing concerts in 1966 – nearly four years before the split of the band.

As for Led Zeppelin, the group's performances quickly became an institution. Even people who did not like music were amazed by the raw energy (and duration) of Zeppelin's shows. After listening to Jimmy Page and John Bonham in attack mode for three hours, you have not forgotten it.

But it's not just the nature of the concerts that made Zeppelin stand out from the Beatles. The excesses of a Zep tour – from the group's private jet to legions of groupies and the destruction of hotel suites – have become almost as famous as "Stairway to Heaven".

In some cases, the scene has become really scary. The story of Richard Cole, the leader of Zeppelin's tour, who decided to shoot a group of journalists is a good example.

An argument between Page and a British journalist quickly degenerated.

Lisa Robinson, a rock journalist who spent a lot of time on tour with Zeppelin in the '70s, published excerpts from her journals in Vanity Fair in 2003. These stories are crazier than you'd imagine, unless you know Hammer of the gods.

Robinson tells a particularly crazy scene of 1975. On the road from New York to Detroit, Jimmy Page and a Daily Express reporter began to exchange annoyances. "You're not supposed to make smart remarks," he told Page at some point. Robinson feared the worst,

However, things have deteriorated faster than expected. At the Detroit show, Cole decided to send a message and prevented the reporter from going backstage. This led to shouting. Once the show was over and everyone was back in Zeppelin's throw, Page was pissed off.

He called the journalist a "communist" and said the music did not interest him. Then, Page shouted about politics when someone started a cocktail on the reporter, which Robinson described as "belligerent" at that time. He had chosen the wrong tactic with this group.

Cole stood in the middle of the plane, brandishing a gun.

In another entry, Robinson wrote about Bonham and some Zeppelin staff members hitting someone who had played with the group. On board Zeppelin 's Starship aircraft that night, nothing like that happened. Instead, Cole pulled out a gun and stood there, shocked by everyone present.

"I had never seen a weapon before," Robinson wrote. "We had 25,000 feet in the air. I curled up in my seat. She describes a general air of fear and tension sweeping the plane. As Zeppelin's safety joined Cole in the aisle of the plane, no one knew what to expect.

Fortunately, it has ended without any violence. Bonham shouted from the front of the plane that he was trying to sleep a little. "In the interest of Christ, are you all going to shut up?" This seems to have spread the situation, even involuntarily.

The scary scene recalled another entry from Robinson during his first meeting with Robert Plant. She asked him questions about the group's reputation in madness and debauchery. "Everything is true," said Plant. "When there are no prohibited catches, there are no prohibited catches."

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