Article: EX CESS all areas; LED-ZEPPELIN WEEK Day 1: Road to notoriety TVs were hurled out of windows A 'coke lady' would see to their needs.(News)

Byline: By VICTORIA WARD

THEY were the original monsters of rock - the band whose antics are the stuff of rock legend.

From 1969 to 1980, Led Zeppelin - the British band who virtually invented heavy metal - raised the bar on riotous rock star excess.

They hurled TVs out of a hotel windows. In one drunken rampage they chopped up a room with Samurai swords.

And they got up to all sorts of unprintable shenanigans with a willing groupie and a shark, catfish or red snapper - depending on who you believe.

At the same time, they ...

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