[SamAdams76]

The band supposedly got their name from an early critic that predicted they'd go over like a "lead zeppelin".

Maybe the same critic that told The Beatles that guitar bands were on their way out.

[God luvs America]

Not true.

There was talk of Jimmy Page starting a band with Keith Moon and a few others after the Yardbirds broke up. It was Keith Moon who said the proposed line-up which he was part of would “go over like a lead balloon.”