re: I don’t quite understand how losing Bonham killed Led Zeppelin

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Or was he that important to the process?

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Yes.

And Plant was very close to him, and besides that had had enough of the Zeppelin machine. He and Page were both devastated by it, but Page never though it would be the permanent end to the band. Plant on the other hand was done with all the behind the scenes machinations and cliques and posturing and the endless drama, and without his dear friend being there anymore, he was through with it all.