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February 6th

1966 - Robert Plant - Tennessee Teens - Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England/Blue Flame Club

1972 - Bonham & Plant - Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England/Lafayette Club-(Fairport Convention)*

1975 - Led Zeppelin - Montreal, Quebec, Canada/Montreal Forum

1984 - Robert Plant - Australian Tour - Melbourne/Sports & Leisure Centre

1995 - Page & Plant - Unledded North American Tour - Pensacola, FL/Pensacola Civic Arena

1996 - Page & Plant - Unledded World Tour - Tokyo, Japan/Budokan Hall

2010 - John Paul Jones - Them Crooked Vultures - New York City, NY/GE Building, NBC Studio 8H

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February 7th

1969 - Led Zeppelin - Chicago, IL/Kinetic Playground

1970 - Led Zeppelin - Edinburgh, Scotland/Usher Hall

1975 - Led Zeppelin - New York, NY/Madison Square Garden

2008 - John Paul Jones - Los Angeles, CA/The Largo - (Watkins Family Hour)

2011 - Robert Plant - Band Of Joy - Charlotte, NC/Ovens Auditorium

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February 8th

1968 - Robert Plant & John Bonham - Band Of Joy - London, England/Marquee Club

1969 - Led Zeppelin - Chicago, IL/Kinetic Playground

1975 - Led Zeppelin - Philadelphia, PA/The Spectrum

1984 - Robert Plant - Australian Tour - Newcastle/Newcastle Civic Centre

1996 - Page & Plant - Unledded World Tour - Tokyo, Japan/Budokan Hall

2000 - Robert Plant - Priory Of Brion European Tour - Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England/Sugarmill

2009 - Robert Plant - Los Angeles, CA/Staples Center (51st Annual Grammy Awards with Alison Krauss)

2010 - John Paul Jones - Them Crooked Vultures - New York, NY/Roseland Ballroom

2011 - Robert Plant - Band Of Joy - Nashville, TN/War Memorial Auditorium

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February 9th

1996 - Page & Plant - Unledded World Tour - Tokyo, Japan/Budokan Hall

2002 - Robert Plant - Westminster, London, England/Royal Albert Hall (Teenage Cancer Trust- with Strange Sensation)

2002 - Jimmy Page - Westminster, London, England /Royal Albert Hall (Teenage Cancer Trust- with Paul Wellers Band)

2011 - Robert Plant - Band Of Joy - Nashville, TN/War Memorial Auditorium

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February 10th

1969 - Led Zeppelin - Memphis, TN/State University (Field House)

1975 - Led Zeppelin - Landover, MD/Capital Centre

2008 - John Paul Jones - Los Angeles, CA/Staples Center - Grammy Awards, Conducts orchestra for Foo Fighters song "Pretender"

FOO FIGHTERS KIDS WAITING FOR GRAMMY MOMENT

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February 11th

1984 - Robert Plant - Australian Tour - Brisbane/Entertainment Centre

1985 - Jimmy Page - The Firm album released

2000 - Robert Plant - Priory Of Brion - Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, UK/The Beaufort Theatre

2010 - John Paul Jones - Them Crooked Vultures- Atlanta, GA/The Tabernacle

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February 12th

1966 - Robert Plant - Tennessee Teens-Walsall, UK/Town Hall

1975 - Led Zeppelin - New York, NY/Madison Square Guarden

1996 - Page & Plant - Unledded World Tour - Tokyo, Japan/Budokan Hall

2012 - John Paul Jones - With Robyn Hitchcock-The Floating Palace/Coventry, England/Warwick Arts Centre..TONIGHT!!!!

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14 February 1969 » Led Zeppelin - Miami, Florida @ Thee Image Club

14 February 1974 » Jimmy Page - London, England @ Rainbow Theatre

14 February 1974 » Led Zeppelin - London, England @ Rainbow Theatre

14 February 1974 » John Bonham - London, England @ Rainbow Theatre

14 February 1975 » Led Zeppelin - Uniondale, New York @ Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

14 February 2007 » Robert Plant - Dudley, West Midlands, England @ JB's Place

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^^Thanks as always Roger:-)

February 15th

1969 - Led Zeppelin - Miami, FL/Thee Image Club

1996 - Page & Plant - Unledded World Tour-Osaka, Japan/Castle Hall

15 February 1984 » Jimmy Page - New York City, New York

Jimmy Page jams with Eric Clapton, Charlie Watts, John Entwistle and Louis Bertignac to celebrate producer Glyn Johns' 42nd birthday.

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February 19th

1968 - Plant & Bonham - Band Of Joy - London, England/Bristol Academy

1972 - Led Zeppelin - Australian Tour - Adelaide/Memorial Drive Park

1984 - Robert Plant - Japan Tour -Tokyo/Shibuya Public Hall

1985 - Jimmy Page - New Orleans, LA/Muddy Waters Club-(with Mason Ruffner)

1996 - Page & Plant - Unledded World Tour - Osaka, Japan/Castle Hall

2005 - Robert Plant - Bristol, Avon, England/Bristol Academy (Tsunami Crisis In Asia Benefit)

Bristol Academy, 19th February 2005

Robert comes in at 43:00

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21 February 1993 » Jimmy Page - New Orleans, Louisiana @ The Howlin' Wolf <-- Another fuzzy one for Mr. Page

21 February 1998 » Page & Plant - Zagreb, Croatia @ Dom Sportova <--- Start of The Mystic East 1998 tour

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ON THIS DATE (40 YEARS AGO)

February 21, 1972 – Led Zeppelin: "Rock and Roll" b/w "Four Sticks" (Atlantic 45-2865) 45 single is released in the US.

"Rock and Roll" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, which was first released as the second track from the band's fourth album in 1971, with a guest appearance by The Rolling Stones pianist Ian Stewart.

Befitting its title, the song is based on one of the most popular structures in rock and roll, the 12 bar blues progression (in A). "Rock and Roll" stands as one of the best-known songs in the band's catalogue.

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has said that this song came to be written as a spontaneous jam session, whilst the band were trying (and failing) to finish the track "Four Sticks". Drummer John Bonham played the introduction to Little Richard's "Keep a Knockin'" and Page added a guitar riff. The tapes were rolling and fifteen minutes later the basis of the song was down.

Said Page:

“We were recording another number [Four Sticks]; we’d just finished a take and John Bonham did the drum intro and we just followed on. I started doing pretty much half of that riff you hear on Rock n Roll and it was just so exciting that we thought, "let’s just work on this". The riff and the sequence was really immediate to those 12-bar patterns that you had in those old rock songs like Little Richard, etc, and it was just so spur-of-the-moment the way that it just came together more or less out of nowhere.”

Page also commented:

“It actually ground to a halt after about 12 bars, but it was enough to know that there was enough of a number there to keep working on it. Robert [Plant] even came in singing on it straight away.”

"Rock and Roll" is one of the few Led Zeppelin songs where all four members share the composer credit. The lyrics by singer Robert Plant reference a number of 1950s and 1960s early rock hits, including "The Stroll," "The Book of Love," and "Walking In the Moonlight."

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23 February 1966 » Warren Grant, son of Peter, born.

23 February 1967 » Jimmy Page - Coventry, England @ Coventry Locarno Ballroom

23 February 1968 » Robert Plant - London, England @ Marquee Club

23 February 1968 » John Bonham - London, England @ Marquee Club

23 February 1970 » Led Zeppelin - Helsinki, Finland @ Kulttuuritalo, Aalto Hall

23 February 1984 » Robert Plant - Nagoya, Japan @ Nagoya City Hall

23 February 1998 » Page & Plant - Budapest, Hungary @ Sports Hall

23 February 2005 » Robert Plant - Kidderminster, Worchestershire, England @ Kidderminster Town Hall

23 February 2006 » John Paul Jones - Seattle, Washington @ W Hotel, Great Rooms

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