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OriginalGeek

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5. Also I have a quibble with the Led Zep entry

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Thu Apr 3, 2014, 07:56 PM

Apr 2014

I don't think they meant to reference the Hindenburg disaster with their name - it was just Moon or Entwhistle (I don't think anyone remembers really which it was) saying it would go over like the world's biggest lead balloon so the biggest lead balloon Jimmy could think of was a zeppelin. I think they already had the name in mind before they did the cover art for the first album.

Unless the lead balloon thing is a direct reference to the Hindenburg? British slang?

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