Thank you for posting these images.

After reading Flares post about Zep's stay at the Polar studios I dug this out and yes you can hear their influence on Abba.

Thank you for posting that article. The part about the cassette having to be presented to their wives as being proof of their work genuinely made me giggle. It is also clear that Zep influenced the last studio LP by Abba. The Visitors track especially makes so much more sense knowing the bands crossed paths. An interesting read.

RIP. Mr Emerson.

For all the people I have loved.

RIP Sir George.

Also the sound systems and amps would be much more basic than what is available today. From the look of that kit Mr Bonham was simply a genius.

Never seen that image before. Thank you for posting it.

Incredibly underrated act IMHO. I got you still holds up all these years on.

6 Music Black Dog on Radcliffe and Maconie. March 1st 2016.

New acts that I am enjoying at the moment.

Can I add my thoughts to this discussion please. What is fascinating about Led Zeppelin is that they achieved what they did without TV, very few radio interviews and only a few music paper interviews usually chatting to only one of the band. That's an almost impossible model to follow now. Like mentioned preciously music has been fragmented for a while now through the specialist radio to the internet sub genres formed for people who enjoy subgenres and nothing else. The history of the UK industry bewilders me at times. Remember The Beatles were turned down. Guitar bands were seen as a passing fad(as was Rock n, Roll itself). If you read about the birth of the UK music scene kids in their teens played illegal gigs in stinking shop cellars, fights happened a lot Police raids, venues becoming the go to places for the new and angry generation. What I have noticed recently is that somehow music has been rebranded as a market force. The commercial being seen as the way forward. Actually what made the UK scene was the oddballs and the outsiders. Being different was they key. Zep, Bowie, The Beatles were the shock of the new, talented yet pushing the boundaries. Radio in the UK has definitely overtaken TV in trying to introduce new acts to people. I hope that people stay creative and musically curious. I hope that the industry wakes up and sees the talent in the outsiders rather than just wanting to maintain the profits as that will kill music.

The only one I cannot find is a specific portrait shot from the Prince sequence from the song remains the same. Robert as an older bloke still is incredibly charismatic.

Thank you for those images. Never seen the last two before and wonder where they are from.