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What a Creep

Led Zeppelin on the Road: Mud Sharks, Baby Groupies , and Backstage Beatdowns!

What a Creep

Margo Donohue

True Crime, Entertainment News, News, Comedy

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

What a Creep
Led Zeppelin on Tour
Season 28, Episode 7

Led Zeppelin is making headlines again with releasing their first official documentary in decades, titled "Becoming Led Zeppelin." The film primarily focuses on the band's music and the early stages of their career as iconic touring legends. One of us is a huge fan (the one leading this episode) and appreciates the band’s remarkable talent while also acknowledging their complicated history, which includes some unsettling stories.

Their life on the road has become part of the groupie lore passed down for decades, and there are also stories involving witchcraft and devil worship connected to Jimmy Page. The band officially broke up in 1980 following the death of drummer John Bonham. They have regrouped in various forms over the years, but the late '60s and '70s Led Zeppelin—with their numerous tales of debauchery—form the basis for most of this episode. Let's Ramble On, y'all!

Trigger warnings: SA, sexual harassment, grooming, and host Margo breaking out in song from time to time. 
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0:00.0

Welcome to What a Creep, the show with Margotonio and Sonia Mansfield, talking about creeps from the past to the present.

0:08.4

This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes, and losers, the best of the worst.

0:14.6

From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy.

0:32.3

Welcome back to What a Creep. This is Margot Donahue, and my cohort in Creepitude, as always,

0:51.4

is the sniffly Sonia Mansfield. Hello, my friend with a cold. Hello, my friend. I apologize, everybody, if my voice sounds a little icky. And if I'm all a little sniffily, I've got a cold. At least it's not the bird flu.

0:54.5

It's not that. Right side. It's not COVID. So it's just a little cold. She's fine, everybody. It's not the bird flu. It's not that. It's not COVID.

0:56.6

So it's just a little cold.

0:57.5

She's fine, everybody. It's just a little cold.

0:58.4

I'm fine, everyone.

0:59.6

But I am going to be leading today's discussion.

1:01.8

And we are the podcast that talks about creeps from the past to the present.

1:05.0

Today we're talking about some creepy stuff that happened with a very popular band, mostly sticking to their road life in the 70s.

1:12.8

There's other stuff we could talk about, but we'd be here all day if I had to talk about all the

1:16.6

creepy things associated with Led Zeppelin.

1:19.1

But this is your first...

1:20.2

Never heard of them.

1:20.8

And by the way, I'm a huge fan.

1:22.3

I'm doing all this from love.

1:24.1

This is Margo.

1:25.1

I'm leading it this week.

1:26.6

This all comes for me from a place of love. This is Margo. I'm leading it this week. This all comes for me from a place of love.

1:29.8

You got any problems? Don't bother Sonia. She has nothing to do with this. This is mine.

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