On this day 27 January

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He rocks

1996 27 January On This Day Page & Plant in Rio
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• 1967 The Yardbirds - Melbourne, Australia at Melbourne Festival Hall
• 1973 Led Zeppelin - Dundee, Scotland at Caird Hall
• 1996 Page & Plant Unledded Tour - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at Hollywood Rock Festival  

1973 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin, Dundee Scotland

1973

1996:
In a Brazilian interview, Robert Plant stated that the Rio performance was Page & Plant's 100th show.

1996 Jimmy Page in Rio

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♪  Led Zeppelin (Dundee Scotland at Caird Hall, 27 January 1973)  
♪  Page & Plant (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at Hollywood Rock Festival , 27 January 1996) 

♫  Page & Plant interview 

On this day 26 January

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2024 On This Day

2015 26 January On This Day Jimmy Page attends Scarlett Sabet poetry reading

2009 26 January On This Day Jimmy Page visits Myanmar

• 1967 The Yardbirds - Melbourne, Australia at Melbourne Festival Hall
• 1968 The Yardbirds - Birmingham, England at Bingley Hall for All Night Rave
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Boston, MA at Boston Tea Party (day 4 of 4) 

1969 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin at Boston Tea Party

1969:
From NME:

John Paul Jones: “As far as I’m concerned, the key Zeppelin gig, the one that put everything into focus, was one that we played on our first American tour at the Boston Tea Party. We’d played our usual one hour set, using all the material for the first album and Page’s White Summer guitar piece and by the end, the audience just wouldn’t let us offstage. It was in such a state that we had to start throwing ideas around, just thinking of songs that we might all know or that some of us knew a part of and work it out from there.

So we’d go back on and play things like “I Saw Her Standing There” and “Please Please Me”, old Beatles favorites. I mean, just anything that would come into our head and the response was quite amazing. There were kids actually bashing their heads against the stage – I’ve never seen that a gig before or since, and when we finally left the stage, we’d played for four plus hours.

Peter (Grant) was absolutely ecstatic. He was crying, if you can imagine that, and hugging us all. You know with this grizzly bear hug. I suppose it was then that we realized just what Led Zeppelin was going to become.” – (NME, Feb. 1973).

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♪  Led Zeppelin(Boston MA at Boston Tea Party, 26 January 1969) 

On this day 24 January

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Smashed up but not beaten down

2009 24 January On This Day Jimmy Page visiting Myanmar

• 1967 The Yardbirds - Adelaide, Australia at Centennial Hall
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Boston, MA at Boston Tea Party (day 2 of 4)
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Leeds, England at University of Leeds, The Refectory
• 1975 Led Zeppelin - Richfield, OH at Richfield Coliseum 

1969 jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin Boston Tea Party

1970 Led Zeppelin Leeds University

1970 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin Leeds University

1975:
Jimmy Page was playing with 3 fret fingers, having slammed his ring finger in a train door in England prior to leaving for the US Tour, breaking the tip.  He was getting used to his new technique by this point, although Dazed and Confused had been dropped from the setlist because of the injury.  That song was next performed at MSG on 03 February.

1976: 
Led Zeppelin was scheduled for a show at the Rose Bowl that had been rescheduled from September due to Robert Plant’s car accident.  The recovery took longer than  anticipated, so this and other shows through the middle of March were rescheduled to later dates or, like the Rose Bowl stadium gig, cancelled.

2009 Jimmy Page passport stamp

2019

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♪  Rock And Roll (Led Zeppelin, Richfield OH 1975) YouTube
♪  In My Time of Dying (Led Zeppelin, Richfield OH 1975) YouTube
♪  The Song Remains the Same - Led Zeppelin, Richfield OH 1975) YouTube
♪  Trampled Under Foot - Led Zeppelin, Richfield OH 1975) YouTube

♪ Led Zeppelin, Richfield/Cleveland OH at Richfield Coliseum, 24 January 1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDwhO8VuOkQ&list=PLf62FjbXtD1JI5oPg0Xe4aZnxtokP5Xl-&index=87&pp=gAQBiAQB8AUB

On this day 22 January

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1973 22 January On This Day Led Zeppelin at Southampton University

• 1967 The Yardbirds - Sydney, Australia at Sydney Stadium
• 1973 Led Zeppelin - Southampton,UK at Southampton University
• 1975 Led Zeppelin - Chicago, IL. at Chicago Stadium (day 3 of 3)

1971:
Note that the source for the one minute intro to Four Sticks (link below), with John Bonham's setting up the timing, may have been from a session at Headley Grange between 1970 December and 1971 January or from the 1971 February sessions at Island Studios in London.  Rumor has it that this and other outtakes were found in trash.

1973 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin at soundcheck, Southampton University

1973 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin at Southampton University

1973 Jimmy Page / Led Zeppelin at Southampton University

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♪  Four Sticks / intro only (Led Zeppelin, rehearsal 1971) 
♪  Led Zeppelin, Southampton UK at Southampton University, 22 January 1973) 

♪  Led Zeppelin, Chicago IL at Chicago Stadium - day 3 of 3, 22 January 1975)

On this day 17 January

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I'd scream for Jimmy Page any time!

1967 17 January On This Day The Yardbirds in Singapore (published 2021)

1967 17 January On This Day The Yardbirds in Singapore (published 2016)

• 1967 Yardbirds - Singapore City, Singapore at National Theatre
• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Detroit, Michigan at Grande Ballroom
• 1975 Led Zeppelin rehearsal Bloomington (Minneapolis) Minnesota  

1967:

The Raffles Hotel, declared a National Monument by the Singapore government, was named for the founder of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles.  Built in 1887, by 1904 it was reported to be "the most magnificent establishment of its kind East of Suez". Its reputation continues today as a five-star destination hotel.

Raffles Hotel, Singapore

1975:
Led Zeppelin's 18 month sabbatical was over, and on this day in 1975 they were in Minneapolis rehearsing for the next night's gig. They looked to be having a good time. Neal Preston was there taking photos - some of Led Zeppelin's most iconic images were from that rehearsal.

1975 Led Zeppelin rehearsal for Minneapolis show (Neal Preston photo)

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1975 Led Zeppelin rehearsal for Minneapolis show (Neal Preston photo)

1975 Led Zeppelin rehearsal for Minneapolis show (Neal Preston photo)

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♪  Led Zeppelin rehearsal (Bloomington/Minneapolis Minnesota at Mets Sport Center, 17 January 1975)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOFu2esIskE&list=PLf62FjbXtD1JI5oPg0Xe4aZnxtokP5Xl-&index=111&pp=gAQBiAQB8AUB

On this day 15 January

 Who? Jimmy Page, that's who.

On This Day 15 January 1965 - published 2021
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• 1969 Led Zeppelin - Iowa City, Iowa  at  Iowa Memorial Union, Main Lounge
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Newcastle upon Tyne, England  at  Newcastle City Hall
• 1973 Led Zeppelin - Henley, England  at  Trentham Gardens Ballroom
• 1992 Jimmy Page - New York City at Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Grand Ballroom 

1970 Led Zeppelin at Newcastle

1992

The Yardbirds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame by the Edge the same year that The Jimi

Hendrix Experienced was. Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page seemed to be having the most fun.

1992 The Yardbirds inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1992 The Yardbirds inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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♪  I Can't Explain (The Who, with Jimmy Page background guitar 1965) 
♪  Bald Headed Woman (The Who, Jimmy Page guitar fuzzbox 1965) 
♪  All Along The Watchtowers (All Star Jam, feat. Jimmy Page 1992) 
♫  The Edge inducts The Yardbirds into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1992 

On this day 07 January

 Strangled cat?  Really?

1970 07 January On This Day Led Zeppelin in Birmingham UK

• 1967 The Yardbirds - Lowell, MA at Commodore Ballroom
• 1970 Led Zeppelin - Birmingham, UK at Town Hall
• 1973 Led Zeppelin - Oxford, UK at New Theatre 

1970
Express and Star review of the Birmingham gig

Led Zeppelin and the lovely strangled cat sound
  Fans cheered wildly, danced in the aisles and even their seats last night to give Led Zeppelin one of the most fantastic receptions ever witnessed at Birmingham Town Hall.
  Zeppelin, the group that conquered the States, was opening its first British tour for many months. It was interesting that the group should have chosen Birmingham to do this and must have been pleasing for the boys to receive such a reception.
  The two-and-a-half-hour show featured solely Zeppelin... and some of the best rock music I have ever heard.
  The group opened its act with Groove, before going into one of their early numbers, Dazed and Confused featuring brilliant lead guitar work from Jimmy Page, who, with the aid of cello bow, made his guitar sound like a cat being strangled.
  All was, by then going great for the group and more of Jimmy Page, by way of a solo with White Sabbath bought more applause.
  Other numbers included, Since I've Been Loving You written by the group only a couple of days before the concert and featuring John Paul Jones on organ- a track likely to be on the groups forthcoming album. Led Zeppelin III - and Thank You again with John on organ.
  The final touch to the show was added by Robert Plant, gyrating around the stage calling on the audience to “Do Your Thing” and screaming out some really groovy rock.
  Then things got going with Moby Dick featuring Dudley's John Bonham with a tremendous ten-minute drum solo. Discarding drumsticks, he added to the magnificence by playing barehanded, and bought the audience to its feet.
  There it stayed until the end of the show, Zeppelin playing some of the greatest rock music, including such numbers as Rip It Up,  By By Johnny, Come On Everybody, and Somethin' Else.
  Two encores and eventually the group came on to close with a really wild version of Bring It On Home leaving the audience ecstatic and the Town Hall shaking to its very foundations after one of the wildest shows ever seen there.
  The group performed its two and a half hours without a break, and when it finished, all four looked as though they had given everything they had, although I imagine they would have quite willingly carried on for an extra two and a half hours.
  The Birmingham based outfits tour continues tonight in Bristol and if things go as well as last night, perhaps it wont be too long before the group gets the chart success it deserves and has seen in the States.

A nice review, although I'm not so sure about the strangled cat thing.  Plus some creative reporting of song titles.

1973

Five days earlier at the Sheffield show Robert Plant was losing his voice. The next two days' shows were cancelled. The bit of rest helped, though, and by Oxford Plant was mostly back though at times he still had to struggle. Page, Bonham, and Jones were better than ever, though, and carried the day.

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♪  Led Zeppelin (Oxford UK at New Theatre, 07 January 1973) 

On this day 27 December

 Whiz kid

1969 27 December On This Day Jimmy Page in Melody Maker

• 1966 -The Yardbirds - Ann Arbor, MI at The Fifth Dimension
• 1968 Led Zeppelin - Seattle, WA at Seattle Arena

1969 Melody Maker "Blind Date" interview

1968

On this day 23 December

 

1968 23 December On This Day Led Zeppelin arrives in the USA

• 1966 The Yardbirds – London at Wembley Studios
• 1972 Led Zeppelin – London at Alexandra Palace (day 2) 
• 2015 Boleskine House fire 

1968 Jimmy Page passport stamp

Led Zeppelin at Chateau Marmont 1969 (Jay Thompson photo)

1969

Led Zeppelin were hardly the wildest of those who stayed - and still stay - at the Chateau Marmont

1972 Led Zeppelin Alexandra Palace, London

Boleskine House restoration (Photo from 2022)

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♪  Led Zeppelin (London at Alexandra Palace - day 2, 23 December 1972)

On this day 10 December

 Beyond amazing and into the realm of Magick.

2007, the Concert of the Century

It's rock and roll, baby.  It's Jimmy Page.  It's Magick.

10 December Jimmy Page's On This Day (published 2020)

1998 and 2007 - 10 December On This Day, Page & Plant at Amnesty International Show
and Led Zeppelin/Jason Bonham at Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert, O2
Videos: Black Dog  Gallows Pole

On this day 2023

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Bristol, England at Student Union, Bristol University
• 1968 Led Zeppelin - London, England at  Marquee Club
• 1975 Led Zeppelin - St. Helier, UK at Behan's Park West (guest appearance with pianist Norman Hale)
• 1998 Page & Plant, Amnesty International Concert - Paris, France at Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
• 2007 Led Zeppelin Ahmet Ertegun Tribute - London,England at O2 Arena  

1975

Robert Plant was still recovering from his August car accident, and the four members of Led Zeppelin were in Jersey for a few weeks. John Paul Jones and John Bonham were at a club where the resident pianist, Norman Hale, invited the two onstage to jam. Instead the full band showed up a week later for a 45 minute set with Hale at the piano and Plant seated on a stool, performing to an audience of a few hundred lucky souls.

1975 Led Zeppelin - St. Helier, UK at Behan's Park West
(guest appearance with pianist Norman Hale)

1998
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant performed When the World Was Young, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Gallows Pole, and Rock and Roll at the last Human Rights Concert to benefit Amnesty International. The full 1998 performance with Page & Plant, among others, is available on Amazon.

1998 Page & Plant, Amnesty International Show, Paris

2007
Ahmet Ertegun (1923-2006) was a powerful figure in Led Zeppelin's career. He was founder and president of Atlantic Records and was a chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. After hearing Led Zeppelin's demo recording, Ertegun immediately signed the then unknown band to his label.

At age 83 Ertegun was backstage at a Rolling Stones' concert at the Beacon Theater in New York when he tripped and fell, hitting his head on the cement. During the Led Zeppelin induction to the UK Music Hall of Fame on 14 November, 2006, Jimmy Page announced that Ertegun had gone into a coma. Ahmet Ertegun died on December 14, 2006 and was buried in his native Turkey.

The remaining members of Led Zeppelin organized an Ahmet Tribute Concert to raise money for the Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund for university scholarships in the UK, US and Turkey. Although other performers were to share the stage, it was the reunion of Led Zeppelin, with Jason Bonham taking his father's place, that stole the headlines.

Over 20 million people tried for tickets.

2007 February, Led Zeppelin statement on passing of Ahmet Ertegun

2007 10 December, Led Zeppelin reunion, with Jason Bonham,
at Ahmut Ertegun Tribute concert, O2 Arena, London

2007 O2 ticket

2007 Dave Grohl with Scarlet Page and the "secret" setlist, before the show
(Ross Halfin photo)

Setlist:
Good Times, Bad Times
Ramble On
Black Dog
In My Time of Dying
For Your Life
Trampled Under Foot
Nobody's Fault But Mine
No Quarter
Since I've Been Lovin' You
Dazed and Confused
Stairway To Heaven
The Song Remains the Same
Misty Mountain Hop
Kashmir

Encore:

Whole Lotta Love

Rock and Roll

2007, the Concert of the Century

2007 Jimmy Page at the mic, O2

2007 Jimmy Page, O2 (Ross Halfin photo)

2007 Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, O2

2007 John Paul Jones, Jason Bonham, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant at O2 (Scarlet Page photo)

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♪  Full set (Page & Plant, Amnesty International Paris 1998) YouTube

♪  When the World Was Young (Page & Plant, Amnesty International Paris 1998) YouTube 

♪  Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Page & Plant, Amnesty International Paris 1998) YouTube
♪ Gallows Pole (Page & Plant, Amnesty International Paris 1998) YouTube
♪  Good Times Bad Times with concert intro (Led Zeppelin with Jason Bonham, Ahmet Tribute Concert at O2, 2007) YouTube

♪  Black Dog (Led Zeppelin with Jason Bonham, Ahmet Tribute Concert at O2, 2007) YouTube

♪  Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin with Jason Bonham, Ahmet Tribute Concert at O2, 2007) YouTube

♪  Kashmir (Led Zeppelin with Jason Bonham, Ahmet Tribute Concert at O2, 2007) YouTube
♪  Rock and Roll (Led Zeppelin with Jason Bonham, Ahmet Tribute Concert at O2, 2007) YouTube

♪ Led Zeppelin Celebration Day (Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert, London at O2, 10 December 2007)

♫  Rolling Stone review by David Fricke