 50 years ago today, Led Zeppelin released the Crown Jewel in their catalogue, an untitled album frequently referred to as Led Zeppelin IV. This release marked a shift in Led Zeppelin's career. Before Led Zeppelin IV, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, Robert Plant, and John Paul Jones were musicians like anyone coming out of the blues rock scene in England. But after the album released, they became gods. Led Zeppelin IV is the birth of Zeppelin as we know them today. It saw the band push studio experimentation on songs like Win the Levy Grace. It saw them rock as hard as anyone ever has a black dog. And of course it saw them change the face of rock and roll with stairway to heaven. If you can draw a line in the sand as to win Led Zeppelin ascended to the pantheon of rock gods, you'll draw it on November 8th, 1971. November 8th is an important date to me as well. 22 years to the day after Led Zeppelin released their fourth album, I was born. Another 15 or 16 years after that, I became obsessed with Zeppelin. They were one of my deepest musical love affairs, and it was a video on Zeppelin that helped this very channel blow up and become my career. And so I'm going to be dedicating this entire month to Led Zeppelin. Over the next three weeks, I'm going to be releasing a trilogy of videos interrogating the legacy of Led Zeppelin. Throughout them, I'll try to celebrate the things that make Zeppelin exceptional, but I'm also going to look at the band through a critical lens. Because for all the celebration of their legacy, there are skeletons in Zeppelin's closet that I personally need to exhume and reckon with if I'm going to go on being a fan of their music. And I hope that you're willing to take this journey with me. If you are, buckle in and get ready because it's time for Zeppelin Month. If you want to be the first to see each and every video of Led Zeppelin Month, you can do so at Nebula. The first episode will drop on Nebula tomorrow and each subsequent episode will be there with no ads before it's released to YouTube. And while you're there, you can also watch my other Zeppelin series, Led Zeppelin's Epics, which is exclusive to Nebula. And the great news is that if you buy anything from my merch store, it comes with a free month of Nebula. Which is fitting because I've got three Led Zeppelin posters inspired by paperback fantasy novels that I designed earlier this year up on my store. So go ahead and treat yourself and be the first to see every video of Zeppelin Month with no ads. Thank you all so much for your support of this channel and I really hope that you enjoy the series.