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Saturday, April 25, 2015

On This Day 25 April

Jimmy Page recorded the video portion of These Arms of Mine with Paul Rogers on April 25 1985.


1983 25 April These Arms Of Mine recorded

  • 1968 Yardbirds - WUAB-TV Studios, Cleveland OH
  • 1968 Yardbirds - Cleveland Palace Theater, Cleveland OH
  • 1969 Led Zeppelin - Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco CA
  • 1977 Led Zeppelin - Freedom Hall Kentucky Fairgrounds & Expo, Louisville KY
  • 1985 Willie & The Poor Boys -- album released
  • 1986 The Firm - U.N.O. Lakefront Arena, New Orleans LA 
  • 1995 Page & Plant - Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati OH

1983 [2020 edit]
It's complicated.  The first ARMS benefit took place at the Royal Albert Hall on September 20 of 1983.  Later, Bill Wyman asked Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers to contribute to a couple of the songs for the Willie & The Poor Boys album.

The audio recordings were done two weeks in November 1984, and one week in early January 1985 at Jimmy's studio, The Sol, in January 1985.  All records for the album show a release date in the UK on this day in 1985 and in the US two days earlier.

According to Wyman's website, the video was filmed afterwards, on June 24, 1985 at Fulham Town Hall . 
 
The band, Willie and the Poor Boys, is not to be confused with Willy & The Poor Boys, a 1970 album by Creedence Clearwater Revival. The Willie and the Poor Boys band was a side project of Bill Wyman's, formed in November 1974. Mr. Wyman explained to Dave Letterman on August 1985 "When we were at school, they used to call me little Willie. I never quite worked that one out, I didn't understand - it looked alright to me, you know..."



♪ Yardbirds (Cleveland Palace Theater, Cleveland OH, 1968 - audience recording, poor quality)YouTube

♪ 1977 Led Zeppelin (Freedom Hall Kentucky Fairgrounds & Expo, Louisville KY) YouTube