By Fraser Lewry, Classic Rock Led Zeppelin frontman and original golden god Robert Plant is reportedly working on a new version of a Zeppelin classic. The news emerged in a series of social media posts from those involved in the project. “While the project is currently top secret, it involves a Led Zeppelin song,” writer and singer/songwriter Antonella Gambotto-Burke told LedZepNews. “Spending time with Robert has been such a privilege,” she added. “The thing that surprised me most was the intense magic he brings with him. It literally fills the room. Spiritually speaking, he’s a giant, and the music is, of course, untouchable. I’m still flying!” Gambotto-Burke, author of Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine, also records with producer Gavin Monaghan as the duo Mama ft. Antonella. She posted further details on Facebook, saying, "In keeping with the rollercoaster that is 2024: hanging out for the day with Robert Plant in the studio. Robert specifically asked to work with Magic Garden Recording Studio, making the brilliant Gavin one of a handful of living producers who has had the honour of working on a Led Zeppelin track." Studio owner Monaghan, who previously worked with Plant when he added vocals to 12 Harps, a song by Wolverhampton singer Scott Matthews from his 2009 album Elsewhere, also posted on social media about the new session, raising hopes that Plant may have revisited more than one Led Zeppelin classic for the mystery project. "Absolute pleasure to be working with Robert Plant and Wolves Records at Magic Garden Studios again," he wrote. "And the thrill of a lifetime to be reimagining some classic cuts from Led Zeppelin. Keep your eyes peeled and more in the pipeline!" Wolves Records was launched in 2021 by Wolverhampton Wanderers, the football club that Plant supports and is vice-president of. Artists signed to the label include grime and rap artist Reepa, pop-punk singer-songwriter Ben Kidson, pop-rocker Split The Dealer and soul/r&b singer Sophia Saffarian. https://www.loudersound.com/news/robert-plant-new-versions-of-led-zeppelin-songs

And the hits just keep on comin! 😃

Part 2 of JCM's doc on Zeppelin in Munich.

Internationally recognized Rock Photographer with a portfolio of Rock Photography spanning five decades and whose award winning work has garnered the praise of such artists as Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Bono of U2, The Alice Cooper Group, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart, Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, Pete Townshend of The Who, Bruce Springsteen, Keith Emerson, Ronnie Lane and Ian McLagan of The Faces among many others. His gatefold center photograph from “Live From The Astroturf, Alice Cooper” was a key component of the award winning packages for the 2017 Best VINYL Package – 45 RPM ALEX Award in Detroit, Michigan and the 2019 “Best VINYL Record Store Day Package” – 12″ LP – ALEX Award in Hollywood, California. A native Texan, Mark Bowman’s work has been used in movies, album covers and documentaries & published in Rolling Stone, Texas Monthly, The BBC (England), CBS, PBS, LedZeppelin.com, JimmyPage.com, Houston Chronicle, Austin American-Statesman, Ultimate Classic Rock.com and the legendary fine art music publishing house – Genesis Publications, headquartered in Surrey, Great Britain, UK. In 2020 and 2021, in addition to his photography, Bowman expanded his creative palette to serve as Executive Producer for Texas Music Hall of Fame artist Joe King Carrasco’s latest two critically acclaimed, full length albums, “Mariachi Blues” and “Beer Bars & Guitars” for Anaconda Records in Austin, Texas. Here's Mark with a prized Les Paul guitar signed by Jimmy Page. Do a search of the forum; you'll find many of Mark's images. RIP

Or do we bend over backwards and say, well it was before Knebworth....4.5 years before!! 😆

A second source of audience footage from Richfield Coliseum 75. Check out Jonesy's hat during RnR! 😄 And rare video of HMMT '75. Thanks to lzf and the filmer, Don Andree!

Knebworth 4 Aug 79. Some pretty cool POV audience footage. What it was like to be down front not far from the stage-front barrier.

Haven't visited Bath 70 in a while but ledzepfilm has a fresh entry which led me to discover most of the YT clips I'd had saved are no more. Whether any of this is previously unseen tests my memory - I come up a loser there - but it's a fun watch. All those tales about whisking Flock's equipment off stage to get Zeppelin on at sunset...myths? The video don't lie. Seems it was still broad daylight about until "the sun refused to shine." 🙃 Anyway, enjoy.

Chicago Stadium 9 Apr 77 the aborted "Sick Again" show. A visual upgrade on prior footage supplemented by additional from a more distant camera. No Richard Cole 😐 but great stuff as we've come to expect from Speedy and ledzepfilm!

Third show in Chicago set to drop Saturday. First Knebworth gig on Sunday. https://www.youtube.com/@speedysfilms/videos

Awesome! 50+ mins of fresh footage. Click the video in the first post. 😁

Dunno whether it's new stuff or an upgrade on what we've seen. Looking forward to Sunday!

A Wiltshire Thatcher – a Photographic Journey through Victorian Wessex Exhibit at Wiltshire Museum from 6th April 2024 - 1st September 2024. This exhibition celebrates the work of Ernest Farmer, who today is little-known but was a leading figure in the development of photography as an art form. Through the exhibition, we will show how Farmer captured the spirit of people, villages and landscapes of Wiltshire and Dorset that were so much of a contrast to his life in London. It is fascinating to see how this theme of rural and urban contrasts was developed by Led Zeppelin and became the focus for this iconic album cover 70 years later. A framed colour version of this image of an elderly man carrying a large bundle of sticks on his back will be recognised worldwide. It is the centrepiece of the iconic front cover of Led Zeppelin IV which famously features no words. The origin of the central figure has remained a mystery for over half a century. It can now be revealed as a late Victorian coloured photograph of a Wiltshire thatcher. A grey beard underlining his weathered face, the figure stoops whilst apparently pausing for the photographer, his leathery hands grasp the pole supporting the bundle of hazel on his back. The original of the photograph made famous by the band was recently discovered in a late Victorian photograph album. The discovery was made by Brian Edwards, a Visiting Research Fellow with the Regional History Centre at the University of the West of England, and is in the Museum collections. Released on November 8, 1971, Led Zeppelin IV has sold more than 37 million copies worldwide. The album’s cover artwork was radically absent of any indication of the musicians or a title. The framed image, often been referred to as a painting, is understood to have been discovered by the band’s lead singer Robert Plant in an antique shop near guitarist Jimmy Page’s house in Pangbourne, Berkshire. Closer inspection reveals this framed image was a coloured photograph, the whereabouts of which is now unknown. The black and white original Victorian photograph was discovered during ongoing research extending from the Ways of Seeing Wiltshire exhibition (20 May 2021 to 30 August 2021), which was curated by Brian Edwards in partnership with Wiltshire Museum. From paintings to photographs and artefacts to memories, Edwards’ research involved monitoring everyday sources that stimulates public engagement with Wiltshire’s past. While following up on some early photographs of Stonehenge, Edwards came across the Victorian photograph Led Zeppelin made familiar over half a century ago. Featuring exceptional photographs from Wiltshire, Dorset and Somerset, the Victorian photograph album contained over 100 architectural views and street scenes together with a few portraits of rural workers. Most of the photographs are titled and beneath the photograph made famous by Led Zeppelin the photographer has written ‘A Wiltshire Thatcher’. The Victorian photograph album is titled ‘Reminiscences of a visit to Shaftesbury. Whitsuntide 1892. A present to Auntie from Ernest.’ Brian Edwards said: “Led Zeppelin created the soundtrack that has accompanied me since my teenage years, so I really hope the discovery of this Victorian photograph pleases and entertains Robert, Jimmy, and John Paul.” A part signature matching the writing in the album suggests the photographer is Ernest Howard Farmer (1856-1944), the first head of the School of Photography at the then newly renamed Polytechnic Regent Street. Now part of the University of Westminster, Farmer had worked in the same building as the instructor of photography since 1882, when it was then known as the Polytechnic Young Men’s Christian Institute. https://www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/?exhibition=wiltshire-thatcher-a-photographic-journey-through-victorian-wessex

Piggybacking on Reids post ^^. "The Mr Jimmy film is showing in selected Light cinemas on April 25 including Cambridge, Banbury, Redhill, Sittingbourne and Stockport." Seems the 19th some places, the 25th others. This is kinda old but don't see it in this thread.

OK gotcha. I thought there were some "Jones-ations" between songs that we hadn't heard. Plus the reported set list must be out of order. I actually thought the piano improvs at the end were similar some of the Zeppelin-era solos from the extended live versions. Perhaps that was the No Quarter attributed in the set list. Thanks for the clarification.

The Hand That Feeds is Swingin Pig. Tonight You Will be Happy is Headley Grange Records.

Thirty minute video but there's a cut between YTIGC and Levee. According to the set list NQ followed YTIGC but he steps away from the organ straight after the opener, so...? Anyway, enjoy.

Two more for April. The Hand That Feeds "definitve version" 4/27/69 3LP Tonight You Will Be Happy 9/28/71 2LP