[Seattle 1977 - New Photos]

2 hours ago, Strider said:

These are amazing. Props to these fans for spelling Led Zeppelin correctly. There always seemed to be a high percentage of fan-made signs spelled incorrectly.

 

Like this one, fans hitchhiking to the show...

 

[Seattle 1977 - New Photos]

I recently uploaded a few new photos from Seattle 1977 courtesy of Roland Morgan. Here's a new batch of great pics, including fans pre-show in the parking lot...
https://www.ledzeppelin.com/show/july-17-1977

 

 

 

[Available at Newstands (Nearly) Everywhere]

[Canadian Led Zep fan, Bruce Parker, visits Swan Song Office in 1978]

From London, Ontario Canada to London, England… Canadian Led Zeppelin fan, Bruce Parker, visited the band’s Swan Song office in the UK during a trip in 1978.
He managed to capture a few snapshots of the interior, offering a rare glimpse inside the hallowed walls.  

 

Under the guise of posing as a reporter from his local University (U of Western Ontario), he was granted an interview with Swan Song’s publicist, Unity McLean.
Bruce: “I really just wanted to walk about the place and see Led Zeppelin stuff. She was kind to present me with a press release for the new album, postcards, and official Swan Song envelopes. At the time, Jimmy Page was mixing the new album, “In Through The Out Door” in Sweden. It was unfortunate that I was flying home the next day as Unity mentioned that Robert Plant was going to come in.”

Notes from his interview mention Swan Song forming in 1974 because of “artistic control”, and also included artists Maggie Bell, Bad Company and Dave Edmunds. “Led Zeppelin were not media conscious, especially Bonzo and JPJ”. The top floor was designated as the promotion dept and main floor was for management.

One of the photos show Bruce posing with a box of guitar strings addressed to Jimmy Page. “I was gobsmacked posing with box of guitar strings addressed to Jimmy.”

 

 

[Rotterdam / June 21, 1980 (New Photos - 2 photographers)]

[Rotterdam / June 21, 1980 (New Photos - 2 photographers)]

Two sets of fan photos from Rotterdam 1980. https://www.ledzeppelin.com/show/june-21-1980
Thanks to David Van Megen and Pieter Soet for sharing....

 

 

[Mannheim / July 2, 1980 (New Photos)]

Here's a new set of amateur photos from Mannheim (July 2, 1980) taken by a big Zep fan, Andy Acevedo Jr. He was stationed in Germany at the time (USAF) and kindly shares his personal shots here for the first time.

https://www.ledzeppelin.com/show/july-2-1980

 

[Led Zeppelin or Related on YouTube]

 

[John Paul Jones will be contributing to the Playing For Change & (UNFPA) Global Livestream event]

 

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/john-paul-jones-re-record-when-the-levee-breaks-1278309/

 

[Led Zeppelin 50th Anniversary]

 

[The Song Remains the Same - Upcoming screenings]

Saturday, 22 January 2022

19:00

 

Riverside Studios
101 Queen Caroline Street
Hammersmith
London

Rock collossi Led Zeppelin are captured live at Madison Square Garden in 1976. As well as interviews with band members and glimpses of backstage shenanigans, the film features definitive versions of 'Stairway to Heaven', 'Whole Lotta Love', 'Dazed and Confused' and many more.

We're transforming Studio 3 in January into a cabaret-style cinema & bar to show some of our favourite ever concert films on the big screen. Seating is unallocated, and tables will be socially distanced.

 

https://riversidestudios.co.uk/see-and-do/led-zeppelin-the-song-remains-the-same-16089/

 

[the "BLAST OFF" solo in "IN THE EVENING"]

16 minutes ago, z1inspector said:

Why is the video Unavailable again? Wonder if webmaster Sam Can get it back for us?

I think the only one we've posted officially is this clip. Other user's uploads might get hit by YouTube copyright algorithm.

 

[The Song Remains the Same - Upcoming screenings]

The Song Remains the Same
Date - Saturday, 8 January (Midnight)

New Beverly Cinema
7165 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

https://thenewbev.com/program/january-8-the-song-remains-the-same/

tickets: https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/702?siteToken=fmtswb0qqbym3de6c4bbsqj89m

[Led Zeppelin or Related on YouTube]

 

 

 

[John Paul Jones will be contributing to the Playing For Change & (UNFPA) Global Livestream event]

December 7, 2021 

John Paul Jones will be contributing to the Playing For Change and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) global livestream event entitled ‘Peace Through Music: A Global Event for the Environment’, which will be streamed on December 15th.

John will be featured in a new rendition of “When The Levee Breaks” that will premiere during the event. This new version features musicians that have had their performances filmed and recorded all over the world.

This year’s global livestream event will feature more than 200 artists from more than 35 countries, including Black Pumas, Jack Johnson, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Sara Bareilles, Slash, and The Lumineers, together with world leaders and influencers, to join the fight for Planet Earth. In partnership with YouTube Music, the event will be streamed on December 15th at 6 p.m. PST / 9 p.m. EST (2 a.m. GMT December 16th) exclusively on the Playing For Change YouTube channel.

For more information about the project visit: www.playingforchange.com

https://www.johnpauljones.com/john-paul-jones-will-be-contributing-to-the-playing-for-change-unfpa-global-livestream-event/

 

 

[New 8mm footage from Sydney 1972 (The Dogs of Doom Liberation Series Vol. 15)]

[Led Zeppelin Tour Manager Richard Cole (1946-2021)]

Jimmy:

 

Yesterday, on the 2nd of December at 2.05am, Richard Cole passed after a brave and lengthy fight against cancer.

Richard and I went back a long way and he had been recruited by Peter Grant to be tour manager with the Yardbirds Keith Relf, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja, and myself during our American touring schedule of underground venues. He was with me at the time that band folded and when I formed @ledzeppelin.

 

From the time of the rehearsals at my home at Pangbourne through to the touring of the USA, we witnessed the phenomena that was Led Zeppelin. He was there for the first and last concerts of the band.

 

He was a brother and a friend to the end. Goodbye my dear friend. They were special times and so were you.

Photo: @davebenett (2018) - Richard and JP at the launch of the Reel Art Press book Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin at National Portrait Gallery, London.#davebenettphotos

 

 

[Led Zeppelin Tour Manager Richard Cole (1946-2021)]

From Robert:

[Robert Plant and Alison Krauss announce first tour dates in twelve years (Press Release)]

“Raising The Roof Tour” artist pre-sales starts today. Gain access to tickets by using the password: RAISETHEROOF
Get your pre-sale tickets at: https://www.plantkrauss.com

[Montreal 1975 (Previously Unseen Photos)]

"Heartbreaker"

 

 

[Led zepp 1 cassette...]

Early UK version. You mean this one:  https://www.discogs.com/release/10181232-Led-Zeppelin-Led-Zeppelin

my copy:

 

 

[Robert Plant and Alison Krauss announce first tour dates in twelve years (Press Release)]

Press Release:

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss announce first tour dates in twelve years
 
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss announce first tour dates in twelve years -  Outdoor concerts through the summer of 2022, from New York City's Forest Hills Stadium, London's Hyde Park, Berlin's magnificent Spandau Citadel to Hamar (Tjuvholmen) and Bergen (Bergenhus Fortress).

A global YouTube Livestream starts at 19.00 Norwegian time, followed by NPR Music listening party 20.00.

The new album Raise The Roof is out now.

Today, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss open the doors to Raise The Roof . The long-awaited sequel to their 2007 monumental album, Raising Sand, is out now, and to celebrate the event, the duo have announced their first tour in twelve years. From June 1, 2022, they will bring their brand new music to a series of mostly large outdoor concerts throughout the United States, Great Britain and Europe. Tickets for the European dates will go on sale from 09.00 26.November. The US concerts go on sale a week later.

Listen to Raise The Roof : https://plantkrauss.lnk.to/RaiseTheRoof

Tonight, fans can watch the two icons play some of the new songs at. 19.00 on a global livestream presented in collaboration with YouTube , in addition to a virtual conversation with critic Ann Powers at. 20.00, which is part of NPR Music's listening party ( sign up here ).

The recordings of Raise The Roof began at Nashville's Sound Emporium Studios in late 2019 and ended just weeks before the world closed. Like Raising Sand, T Bone Burnett has produced this coalition of early blues, secluded country songs, revolutionary folk-rock and forgotten soul music written by legends and unsung heroes such as Merle Haggard, Allen Toussaint, The Everly Brothers, Anne Briggs, Geeshie Wiley, Bert Jansch, Ola Belle Reed, Brenda Burns and more.

Robert Plant says the following about the new album: «These are songs that have gone into our hearts way back in time, but got lost in the twists and curves of the passing years. You hear them and you go 'Man, listen to that song, we got to sing that song!' It's a vacation, really — the perfect place to go that you least expected to find. "

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Concert Date 2022:

June 1 - Canandaigua, NY - CMAC

June 3 - Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center

June 4 - Forest Hills, NY - Forest Hills Stadium

June 6 - Clarkston, MI - DTE Energy Music Theater

June 7 - Chicago, IL - Pritzker Pavilion

June 9 - Indianapolis, IN - TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park

June 11 - Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion

June 12 - Philadelphia, PA - TD Pavilion @ The Mann

June 14 - Cary, NC - Koka Booth Amphitheater

June 16 - Atlanta, GA - Cadence Bank Amphitheater at Chastain Park

June 26 - London, UK - BST Hyde Park

July 1 - Hamar, NO - Tjuvholmen

July 2 - Bergen, NO - Bergenhus Fortress

July 5 - Rättvik, SE - Dalhalla

July 14 - Lucca, IT - Lucca Summer Festival - Piazza Napoleone

July 18 - Sopot, PL - Lesna Opera

July 20 - Berlin, DE - Citadel

 

Raise The Roof playlist:

Quattro (World Drifts In)

2. The Price of Love

3. Go Your Way

4. Trouble With My Lover

5. Searching for My Love

6. Can't Let Go

7. It Do not Bother Me

8. You Led Me to The Wrong

9. Last Kind Words Blues

10. High and Lonesome

11. Going Where the Lonely Go

12. Somebody Was Watching Over Me

 

 

[Robert Plant donates Led Zeppelin T shirt for charity auction]

ROBERT Plant has donated a Led Zeppelin tee for a charity auction as Kidderminster College celebrates BBC 6 Radio Sounds annual T Shirt Day.

Students and staff are being encouraged to rep their favourite artist today (November 19) and hopefully get their band of choice on the radio.

Kidderminster College music students will also be taking to the KC Facebook LIVE at 7pm, showcasing their current work and material.

The college has said it's a great opportunity to highlight the "plight of the Creative Industries" and how purchasing merchandise such as t-shirts or other apparel helps musicians.

As part of the event, and to celebrate 50 years of Led Zeppelin, MAS Lab patron, Robert Plant, donated an Official Led Zeppelin prototype t-shirt for eBay auction, with all the proceeds going to the British Red Cross.

MAS Lab was set up in 2019 and is focused around performance-based projects joining social concern with creative action.

Kev Gammond, curator of MAS Lab said: "The collaboration of art and music will forever help make changes in the world. Without the creative industries, there is no activism, no voice, no joy."

https://www.kidderminstershuttle.co.uk/news/19726631.robert-plant-donates-led-zeppelin-t-shirt-charity-auction/

[Montreal 1975 (Previously Unseen Photos)]

next batch...

 

[Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Return for a Second Duo Album, 14 Years After Their Grammy-Sweeping Debut]

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss on Why They Never Dated: 'We'd Be in Trouble Now'

Raise the Roof, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' follow-up to the 2007 hit Raising Sand, is out on Nov. 19

By Rachel DeSantis November 18, 2021 
 

 

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' chemistry is off the charts — at least, when it comes to their music.

The pair caught lightning in a bottle when they joined forces on the Grammy-winning 2007 album Raising Sand, and are looking to do so again with Raise the Roof, a new collaboration out Nov. 19.

And although the Led Zeppelin rocker, 73, and the bluegrass darling, 50, share a close friendship, that bond — and considerable critical success — doesn't exactly translate into their personal lives.

The pair were quizzed in this week's issue of PEOPLE on whether they were aware of internet chatter that perhaps their friendship was something romantic — chatter they quickly shut down.

"I haven't heard it in a long time, but we did. We still do," Krauss says of having a relationship with Plant.

"But not that one," Plant interjects, before Krauss chimes in to clarify: "We have a musical one."
 

Ever ready with a wisecrack, Plant quips: "Because if we had that one, we'd be in trouble now. Trouble, party of one."

With the coast clear of trouble, the two are ready to make a new mark with Raise the Roof, which features 12 new tracks, all covers just like last time, save for "High and Lonesome," an original that Plant wrote with producer T Bone Burnett.

For more on Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday, or subscribe here.

A return to the studio 14 years later was easy for Plant, who says he and Krauss are "good together."

"We're just good," he says. "I think we are determined and gritty. We like the idea of seeing things straight down the line, no fluffy stuff. So if we don't get it right, we have to move on. And we're friends, really good friends, so we can reach a 'no' really quickly if it's not feeling right.

Krauss, meanwhile, says she and the British rocker share a "real love for history and where we both come from."

Though they bonded over such similarities, there was a learning curve, at least in the beginning, as Krauss essentially tutored Plant during their first go-round, especially when it came to harmonies.

"We've got our own individual strengths, and it's a miracle that they can ever meld. But they do," he says. "In the beginning it was difficult, because I wasn't used to being tutored and, 'Why don't you do it like this?' And I just thought, 'Oh, baby!'"

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Still, he says, "I like it. I like the idea of learning new stuff… I felt so much more accomplished when it started to work good."

Looking ahead, Krauss and Plant hope to one day take the record on tour, once COVID-related logistics ease — and aren't closing the door on a third album.

"I don't see any reason why not. There's a world full of beautiful songs that are waiting to be brought back into focus in a different way," says Plant. "I can't see any reason that that shouldn't work."

https://people.com/music/robert-plant-alison-krauss-on-why-they-never-dated/