Still performing as The Yardbirds, but not for long.
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| 1968 Led Zeppelin - Stockholm, Sweden at Tivoli Grona Lund,Stora Scenen |
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| 1968 Billed as Yardbirds - not even the new ones |
1976:
Bonzo's Montreux is one of my favorite pieces of music ever. Of course, I say that about so many of Led Zeppelin's and Jimmy Page's music, but this is different.
Bonzo's Montreux is music at it's most basic, what humans have heard in the plink of raindrops and the slap of windshield wipers, the thing that makes toes tap and bodies sway. This one song is music stripped to a fundamental component of human life, "the spatial representation of time as rhythm" (Ursula Leguin,
The Dispossessed). It is truly, as Jimmy Page puts it, John Bonham's drum orchestra.
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| Keyboard mentioned in Jimmy Page's On This Day post |
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| 1998 Page & Plant - Poster for Mountain View, CA show |
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| 2007 Led Zeppelin announces O2 show |
2007:
"O2" of course, refers to the one-off "Led Zeppelin Reunion" (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham). The official name of the show was the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert. It was a benefit to help raise money for the Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund for university scholarships in the UK, US and Turkey.
The 12 September announcements for the event mentioned a lineup that included Pete Townshend, Foreigner, Paolo Nutini, and Bill Wyman And The Rhythm Kings, with rumors of Mick Jagger playing the gig. Tickets for the show were £125 each, limited to two per person, distributed by ballot via online registration. Registration was supposed to close on Monday, 17 September, but in fact the website exceeded its bandwidth and crashed almost immediately upon the announcement. According to Guinness World Records 2009, a world record was set for the "Highest Demand for Tickets for One Music Concert". Depending on the source you believe, there were no fewer than one million or as many as 20 million requests for tickets.
Pete Townshend declined to perform, reportedly saying, "They really don't need me." It didn't matter whether he or anyone else showed up. For most of the world there was only one band that was going to play that night anyway: Led Zeppelin.
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| 2009 5 March, Jimmy Page/Ross Halfin studio photoshoot |
2009:
I posted this photo today because I like it. Is there any other reason necessary?
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♪ Bonzo's Montreux (Led Zeppelin, Coda 1976) YouTube
♪ Bonzo's Montreux (mix construction in progress) (Led Zeppelin, Coda 2015 remaster)
♪ Ramble On (Led Zeppelin, O2 rehearsal Shepperton Studios 2007) YouTube
♪ For Your Life (Led Zeppelin, O2 rehearsal Shepperton Studios 2007) YouTube
