#But i'm gonna focus on my fave bc he clearly is no angel

[kulturegroupie]

I think I know why Jimmy doesn’t have a memoir written yet. It’s probably because he doesn’t want to admit to the fact that he raped those “baby groupies” and treated his wives horrible. How he treated Charlotte, then Patricia, and then Jimena. I hope all those women are doing ok (sadly Patricia passed away). I know most rockstars were like this but it’s especially Jimmy that has done lots of damage and also glorified those fucked up things.

Btw I’m not saying that people can’t listen to Led Zeppelin but at least acknowledge the information about them that I’m not sure is 100% true but could be. They were “small beans 🥺” they were rockstars who are technically rapists.

hi anon, finally i get to touch on this topic.

first of all, yes i completely agree with you. this may come as a tiny shock from someone who has a whole blog dedicated to sharing info about him and keeping his musical legacy alive, but boy, if i have to be completely honest i'm pretty big into feminism and human rights, and it's funny how my love for him and my beliefs can co-exist because researching stuff about him has oftentimes made me sick.

i hate to bring negativity to any of my followers' timeline who might have opened the app to relax and/or just mindlessly scroll, but some things need to be addressed - and i want y'all to know that i will never support any actions of his that i find problematic or degrading towards women.

as for his memoir, there is actually an interview where he talks about it, and the reason is pretty much the one you mentioned (basically he wants to release it posthumously, to avoid any "legal wranglings").

this said, i feel like us zeppelin fans - especially the ones who have jimmy as their fave - have to constantly repeat ourselves and reassure others that no, we don't support jimmy's actions. yes, we're all aware of what he did, but i can assure you that if we're under 40 and not absolute fucking bigots, we do not agree with them, neither do we want nor need to be constantly reminded of them as if we're the ones who did anything wrong.

to be fair, i was angry at him for a long time, at first even scared to admit that i liked him and his bands because of those rumours, and i feel like it's pretty much a universal experience for a lot of the zeppelin fandom. but at the end of the day my hands are clean, i didn't do those things - he did.

i think it's important to acknowledge that the ones who are glorifying his actions are mostly cis het male fans, especially the older ones... they're also the ones being negatively influenced. most women and girls do know that what he did was wrong.

...he's a tough one to love for sure. but there is a number of classic rock artists who are fairly worse than him and their wrongdoings and literal crimes rarely ever get mentioned. although this does not excuse his actions in any way, the culture back then was fucked up as a whole.