The POP EXPOSE ‘John Bonham Led Zeppelin’ by Mitchell Smith!

John Henry Bonham was born on May 31st 1948 in Redditch, Worcestershire, England. John was a natural, and started at the age of 5 banging on tin cans. His mother Joan gave him a snare drum when he was 10 and his father Jack got him a Premier Percussion drum set when he was 15. Bonham never had a formal drum lesson, he learned from other local drummers and from some of his idols such as Max Roach, Gene Krupa, and Buddy Rich. Bonham left school in 1964 and went…

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