 Page wrote most of Led Zeppelin 's music , particularly early in their career , while Plant generally supplied the lyrics . Jones ' keyboard @-@ based compositions later became central to the group 's catalogue , which featured increasing experimentation . The latter half of their career saw a series of record @-@ breaking tours that earned the group a reputation for excess and debauchery . Although they remained commercially and critically successful , their output and touring schedule were limited during the late 1970s , and the group disbanded following Bonham 's death from alcohol @-@ related asphyxia in 1980 . In the decades that followed , the surviving members sporadically collaborated and participated in one @-@ off Led Zeppelin reunions . The most successful of these was the 2007 Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert in London , with Jason Bonham taking his late father 's place behind the drums . 
