No. You really don't.

The musical style on Kingdom Come's debut album was very close to the early blues-rock style of English rock band Led Zeppelin, to the point that some listeners initially thought that Kingdom Come was actually a Led Zeppelin reunion. With a sound that was thought by many to be highly derivative of Led Zeppelin's, there was a backlash from critics, with the band being dubbed "Kingdom Clone" in the press.

"Obviously it can get to the point where it gets past being a compliment and it can be rather annoying, when you've got things like Kingdom Come, actually ripping riffs right off, that's a different thing altogether."

— Led Zeppelin's guitarist and producer Jimmy Page commented in 1988

Irish rock guitarist Gary Moore however went one step further, with the track "Led Clones" from his After the War album. Moore with Ozzy Osbourne on lead vocals, pokes fun at bands such as Kingdom Come on the track, criticizing their blatant use of Led Zeppelin's sound and image.

Vocalist Lenny Wolf further inflamed the situation in an interview with Kerrang magazine where he alleged to have never heard of Led Zeppelin, so how could he just be influenced by Zeppelin if he's supposedly never heard of them. :)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/28/2018 05:07AM by Silver Light.