SteveZ98 - many thanks for the swift and helpful reply. Exactly what I was looking for. For anyone else interested, you need to google royal-orleans.com and select "what place to rest the search" and then select "list of known..." as SteveZ98 says. It seems comprehensive and up to date and all in date order too.

Once upon a time i.e. the late 80's/early 90s I viewed a 3 hour VHS video cassette of LZ live footage in date order. Of the 77 tour it contained 3 items: (1) Birmingham (that crowd hysteria!) (2) One of the New York shows (very black but JP was visible because he was in white) and (3) A montage of ALS. I've no idea if that represented everything available at the time. And now this latest offering. This may be one of those question which takes a few seconds to ask but a lot of work for someone to answer but here goes: Does anybody have a completed list of all the 77 footage now available? Perhaps a list of the 77 tour dates with a yes or no next to it? It seems to be fairly well covered now from start to finish.

To answer the original question - yes, RP has discussed and talked about his lyrics. I've watched a 1995 interview for MTV from Florida on youtube. RP and the interviewer are discussing the LZ tribute album and the dialogue is (roughly) as follows: INT: I was surprised as I actually...some of the lyrics...that's it! RP: Hey listen. I've seen the Led Zep book of lyrics and there's so much bullshit in there. I can't believe the lyrics! No wonder people think I need to go to a rest home. INT: So they're not the same? RP: No! They're miles out. Terrible. Cos I didn't know what half the lyrics were so I got them printed out for me. I'd forgotten them and I went "This ain't right". And it's terrible. The publishing company who put these books out should really... INT: I'm curious how they do the transcription. RP: They ain't got a clue. Some guy with cotton wool in his ears.

If you are struggling with IMToD wait until you get to Nobody's Fault But Mine (NFBM). IMToD - I used to think it was something like instant traces too but in issue 149 of Classic Rock magazine Barney Hoskins wrote about Physical Graffiti and IMToD stating: "...complete with a reference to R&B singer Benny Spelllman's hit Lipstick Traces (on a cigarette): "I must have did somebody some good, yeah/Oh, I believe I did/I see the smiling faces/I know there must be lipstick traces, oh God..." The Ocean has a difficult line too which I'm convinced is "I've got a date I can't be late for the hell I'm heading for". Houses of the Holy did come with lyrics but that difficult line was deliberately transcribed incorrectly to avoid the reference to hell but I can't remember where I got that bit of info from. If you are working on a definitive lyric book with every oooh and ahhh, you may find an article in Tight But Loose issue 23 of interest. It's a deep dive into the lyrics of Led Zeppelin using software to isolate everything including studio chat and so on. The motive of the writer was "...I've always been fascinated by the Zeppelin lyrics. A few years ago, I went through the process of attempting to transcribe them, as the available ones, I feel, have errors". Finally back to NFBM. This is not a lyric observation but a content comment. I was watching a 1955 film called "The Man with the Golden Arm" starring Frank Sinatra as a drug addict. During the half hour I was watching there were numerous references by Sinatra's character about the monkey on his back i.e. his addiction to heroin and in one scene where he's getting his injection too it gets a few mentions! With Plant also referencing - possibly - a gong or bong, all this reinforces the drug themed lyrics. As does For your Life.