Dread Zeppelin

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Dread Zeppelin is an American band best known for covering the songs of Led Zeppelin in a reggae style sung by an Elvis Presley impersonator named Tortelvis (Greg Tortell), though their act now encompasses many other songs and other styles of music. Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant has said that Dread Zeppelin is his favorite Led Zeppelin cover band. The first Dread Zeppelin release, the 7" single "Immigrant Song/Hey Hey What Can I Do", was recorded at the home studio of Dave Stewart of Eurythmics and released in 1989. After its success, a second single, "Whole Lotta Love/Tour-telvis: A Bad Trip" was released. A third, "Your Time is Gonna Come/Woodstock (live)" was released not as a single but as part of a singles compilation entitled Komm Gib Mir Deine Zeppelin (a play on the title of the German version of The Beatles' song "I Want to Hold Your Hand"). The rest of Dread Zeppelin's first album, Un-Led-Ed, consisted of more covers taken from Led Zeppelin and Led Zeppelin II, plus ... full article at wikipedia

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Un-Led-Ed
  • 1990
5,000,000*
  • May 7, 1991
It's Not Unusual
  • 1992
No Quarter Pounder
  • Sep 12, 1995
Hot & Spicy Beanburger
  • Sep 28, 1995
The First No-Elvis
  • Nov 7, 1995
The Fun Sessions: Tortelvis Sings the Classics
  • Feb 20, 1996
Spam-Bake
  • 1997
De-Jah-Voodoo
  • Sep 19, 2000
Re-Led-Ed: The Best of Dread Zeppelin
  • Jul 13, 2004
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