Led Zeppelin rewrote the book on rock ‘n’ roll excess and extremes.
Constantly trumping one another with drink, drugs, sexual conquests and unspeakable acts of debauchery, they made even the likes of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards look like Cliff Richard.
By their side through their heyday, and arguably even more hard-living, was their hellraising tour manager Richard Cole, who has died of cancer aged 75.
As well as arranging the band’s security and transportation on the road, he was