Comparisons With Led Zeppelin
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, criticising their blatant use of Led Zeppelin's sound and image.This, in spite of thefact that Led Zeppelin themselves were successfully sued by Blues men for copyright infringement. To this day, a persistent urban legend has it that vocalist Lenny Wolf further inflamed the situation in an interview with Kerrang magazine by proclaiming to have never heard of Led Zeppelin. A similar quote has been attributed to Stag, who did actually once tell an MTV reporter that he had never PURCHASED a Led Zep record.This reporter then told Jimmy Page in a subsequent interview that, "Kingdome Come's guitarist says he has never heard your playing", and that appears to be the source of this continuing and false narrative. Wolf has been adamant that his and Kingdom Come's greatest influences were The Beatles and AC/DC, particularly the Bon Scott era. Danny Stag is on record as having said that his biggest influence was Jimi Hendrix. These claims are backed up by the cover of the Beatles classic "Across the Universe" from "Ain't Crying For The Moon" and the hard rocking tribute "Bon Scott" (in honour of the former AC/DC front-man) from the same album.
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