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Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[24 Aug 2023 | One Comment | 759 views]
REMEMBERING ANDY ADAMS TWO YEARS GONE/LZ NEWS /IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR / PAGE & PLANT MTV UNLEDDED 29 YEARS GONE/TOYAH AND FRIPP KASHMIR/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

Andy Adams 1961 – 2021…
Two years gone…
Andy Adams passed away two years ago on August 27,2021.
The response back then to his very sad passing was truly overwhelming though not unsurprising given Andy’s standing in the Zep community…
Reading back through all those amazing tributes and memories, it’s heartwarming to see the esteem he was held in by so many – and the way he brightened all our lives and still does.
It’s a tribute to Andy that his Celebration Days Facebook group has continued to be an enlightening platform for Zep related …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[18 Aug 2023 | 2 Comments | 1,328 views]
ROBERT PLANT SAVING GRACE UK TOUR DATES/ROBERT PLANT ON THE OCCASION OF HIS BIRTHDAY/HOT AUGUST NIGHT 53 YEARS GONE/BOB HARRIS/THE WHO AT WEMBLEY 1979/IN THROUGH THE RELEASE DATES/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

This via LZ news…
Robert Plant will tour the UK with Saving Grace in November, it was announced on August 15.
The band will perform 13 shows across England and Wales starting on November 1, according to the tour announcement.
Tickets for Saving Grace’s upcoming UK tour will go on sale at 10am UK time on Friday, August 18 through this link.
Saving Grace previously announced that the band will appear at the November 4 80th birthday concert in London to honour Bert Jansch.

The band’s November UK tour will follow a European tour due to take place during …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[9 Aug 2023 | No Comment | 1,130 views]
LED ZEPPELIN AT KNEBWORTH AUGUST 11 1979 – THEN AS IT WAS 44 YEARS GONE / LZ NEWS / DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

TBL Archive Special – Knebworth August 11 1979 – Then as it really was…44 years gone…
It’s that time of year again…
The anniversary of Led Zeppelin at Knebworth always resonates  – Saturday August 11h 1979 – just writing that date sends a tingle of excitement because that is the day when it all occurred for a second time back in that field just outside Stevenage all of 44 years ago.
On Thursday  August 11 I, and thousands of other fans will no doubt be thinking back to that glorious second Zep gig …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[4 Aug 2023 | 4 Comments | 1,348 views]
TOM LOCKE 1957- 2023/KNEBWORTH 44 YEARS GONE – MEMORIES FROM OUT IN THE FIELD/ LZ NEWS /DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

 

Tom Locke 1957 – 2023…
We said goodbye to our dear friend Tom Locke yesterday following his sad passing on July 7.
Over the past 49 years, Tom and I have shared many special moments together – he was an amazing friend to have.
I first met Tom when we were both 17 years old in the spring of 1974 at the Pilgrims bar in Bedford. He was part of a group of friends including Dec Hickey, Phil and Max Harris, Dave Bunting, Andy Filby, Shaun King, James Eaton etc that I was …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[28 Jul 2023 | No Comment | 1,508 views]
PRELUDE TO KNEBWORTH – COPENHAGEN WARM UPS 1979/LZ NEWS/ROYAL ALBERT HALL AND BATH 70 FILMING -THE WHOLE STORY/MADISON SQUARE GARDEN AT 50/PAGE & PLANT UK TOUR 28 YEARS GONE/FAS MAGAZINE/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

The Prelude to Knebworth…the Copenhagen warm-ups – it was 44 years ago:
Here’s a couple fascinating first hand views of the Led Zeppelin warm up shows all of 44 years ago…

A 24 month break separated Led Zeppelin’s walking offstage in California on July 24th 1977 and their return to the concert stage in Copenhagen almost two years to the day on July 23rd 1979.
In a tactic that echoed Peter Grant’s original launch of the band in 1968, Led Zeppelin flew to Copenhagen on Monday July 23rd to perform two warm up shows for the …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[19 Jul 2023 | 4 Comments | 1,371 views]
JIMMY PAGE & ROBERT PLANT 1995/LZ NEWS/SEATTLE 77 – IT WAS 46 YEARS AGO/ROBERT PLANT AND SSS LONDON FORUM  & JPJ MINIBUS PIMPS CAFE OTO 11 YEARS GONE/NICK DRAKE THE LIFE REVIEW/LOVE REVISITED REVIEW/ DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

TBL Archive – Jimmy Page and Robert Plant – UK tour 1995 – it was 28 years ago…
28 years ago this week a fair few of you reading this were tearing up and down the highways and byways of the UK to catch the long awaited on stage return of   Jimmy Page & Robert Plant.
It was incredibly exciting few days -I was lucky enough to catch the dates in Glasgow, Sheffield, St Austell, Poole and two nights in Birmingham and London. Along the way there was many a TBL meet …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[13 Jul 2023 | 3 Comments | 1,273 views]
10% STAKE IN LED ZEPPELIN FOR SALE/ LZ NEWS/STORY OF HIPGNOSIS SCREENING EVENT/ROBERT PLANT 1982 INTERVIEW/BADGEHOLDERS – IT WAS 46 YEARS AGO/LIVE AID 1985 /DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

Helen Grant’s 10% stake in Led Zeppelin tendered for sale:
Unsurprisingly plenty of news coverage for this story…
This via LZ News…
Helen Grant, the daughter of Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant, plans to sell her 10% stake in the band’s music, according to a new interview published in The Times on July 10.
Peter Grant owned a 20% stake of the “rights” of Led Zeppelin’s music, The Times reports, which was split equally between his children Helen and Warren Grant upon his death in 1995.
Now, Grant’s daughter has announced plans to sell her 10% stake …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[5 Jul 2023 | 6 Comments | 977 views]
BERT JANSCH BIRTHDAY CONCERT/ SQUARING THE CIRCLE – THE STORY OF HIPGNOSIS FILM REVIEW/LZ NEWS/ PETER TULLOCH RIP/TBL ARCHIVE – A WEEK FOR BADGEHOLDERS 1977 – OVER EUROPE MUNICH 1980 – PICTURES AT ELEVEN 41 YEARS GONE/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

 

Announced this week with an appearance by Robert Plant and Saving Grace…
An 80th Birthday Concert for Bert Jansch
Sat 4 Nov, 7pm
Royal Festival Hall London
Celebrate the enduring legacy of the folk musician with Martin Simpson, Jacqui McShee, Robert Plant, Bernard Butler, Kathryn Williams and Sam Lee.
Bert Jansch is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential songwriters and guitarists of all time.
A leading light of the 1960s British folk revival and a founding member of folk jazz supergroup Pentangle, his career spanned five decades, inspiring generations of musicians with his groundbreaking …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[29 Jun 2023 | 2 Comments | 1,288 views]
TBL ARCHIVE –  BATH FESTIVAL 1970/ LZ NEWS/ LED ZEPPELIN OVER EUROPE 1980/KNEBWORTH1990/ STORY OF HIPGNOSIS FILM SCREENINGS/GAZ MORRIS CD/GLASTONBURY THOUGHTS 2023/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

TBL Archive Special 1: It was 53 years ago…
Wednesday marked the 53nd anniversary of one of the most famous Led Zeppelin performances -their bill topping appearance at the 1970 Bath Festival.
Too mark that event here’s the details of that performance as chronicled in the Evenings With Led Zeppelin book

June 28, 1970 – Bath Festival of Blues & Progressive Music ‘70 – Bath & West Showground – Shepton Mallet, England
Setlist:
Immigrant Song, Heartbreaker, Dazed And Confused, Bring It On Home, Since I’ve Been Loving You, Organ Solo/ Thank You, That’s The Way …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[21 Jun 2023 | No Comment | 750 views]
TBL ARCHIVE SPECIAL – LED ZEPPELIN OVER EUROPE 1980 COLOGNE – IT WAS 43 YEARS AGO/LZ NEWS/SEATTLE ’72/JIMMY PAGE 2015 TBL INTERVIEW/TOM ROBINSON BAND AT ESQUIRES/BEATLES-EVOLVER ’63/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

TBL Archive Special: Led Zeppelin Over Europe 1980 – 43 years gone…

This week marks the 43rd anniversary of the first dates of the final Led Zeppelin tour – a low key 14 date trek taking in Germany, Belgium, Holland, Austria and Switzerland. I was lucky enough to attend five of those gigs. This is all chronicled in my Led Zeppelin Feather In The Wind Over Europe 1980 book
Here’s is an extract of chapter three, my on the road account written at the time and first featured in TBL issue 5.
 Extract …