UK tribute band Boot Led Zeppelin will be celebrating the 35th anniversary of the famous Zep Earls Court shows with a showcase gig on Saturday March 27th. The venue is the Shepherds Bush Empire in London. Boot Led Zeppelin will be recreating the magic of Zep in ’75 with a special Earls Court set list and TBL will be in attendance on the night – more details to follow. This is shaping up to be a great way of marking the 35th Earls Court anniversary. Ticket details and info via …

On March 2nd , Rounder Records will be releasing Rounder Records’ 40th Anniversary Concert, an album of the concert that celebrated the label’s 40 years in the music industry. Recorded in October 2009 at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, the concert will also be presented as a PBS television special that will begin airing on the network in March, 2010 and released on DVD in May.
The event is a superb exhibition of Rounder’s diverse roster, and features Grammy winning Rounder artists Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas, Mary Chapin …

DL back at Earls Court 30 years to the day -May 18th 2005. For non badgeholders only.
After last week’s flurry of Zep related activity it’s been down to work with a ton of planning to do for this year’s TBL schedule.  Not that the news input has slowed too much with Jimmy’s appearance at the Show of Peace press conference bringing official word that he will be one of the main attractions  at the event on April 17th – and the presenting of his United Nations  Pathways To Peace award. 
 
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Here’s the latest TBL back issue extract from the TBL archives. These archive pieces highlight the depth of detail to found in the TBL magazine.
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In keeping with this week’s 1975 theme, this TBL archive extract from issue 15 published in 2001, focuses on a series of dynamic performances as Led Zeppelin barnstormed there way across the US in early 1975. A band at the very top of their game…and a prelude to what the UK would revel in at …

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Jimmy Page was in attendance at the press conference in Beijing to announce the Show of Peace concert. This free concert will take place on April 17th on Beijing’s Olympic Green. Speaking at the launch Jimmy commented “My belief in music as a universal language is the reason I returned to Beijing to voice my support for the Show of Peace. “This (concert) is a tribute to the power of music and its positive effect. Music has been one of the most powerful languages that speaks to the heart …

Jason Bonham is joining forces up with former Deep Purple bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes and guitarist Joe Bonamassa in a brand new project tentatively titled Black Country.
 “I just literally went into the studio last week for two days with one person I’d done an album with before, very quickly, and then the other was a friend of my father’s I got to meet later on, Joe Bonamassa and Glenn Hughes, and we’re working on a new project with a working title of Black Country’’ Jason told Spinner.com.  “We just went in …

 
To mark the occasion of John Paul Jones 64th birthday last Sunday January 3rd
and Jimmy Page’s 66th birthday on Saturday January 9th, here’s a couple of respective features from the TBL archive that chronicle some of their best work. 
Happy birthday to you from us….
 
 
Jimmy Page
Ten Of The Best
 
This listing is extracted from the extensive Jimmy Page 60 Of The Best feature that appeared in TBL 17. The original list was compiled from votes submitted for a TBL poll and fan gathering held at the time of Jimmy’s 60th …

The young DL looks to the East-  Cologne June 18 1980 -pic Tom Locke
 It hadn’t occurred to me until Steve A. Jones noted it in the comments of the last Diary entry, that this is the commencement of my fifth decade of chronicling the world of Led Zeppelin.
The fifth decade has duly got off to a great start. The arrival of the new Mojo magazine with its inspiring Jimmy Page interview had me rushing to get some of that old Page magic back on the deck.
Cue everything from The …

We are planning a TBL Fan Gathering to be staged on Saturday September 25th 2010. This all day event will celebrate the life and times of John Bonham and Led Zeppelin and will also act as the official launch for the next TBL publishing book Led Zeppelin, A Feather In The Wind, Over Europe 1980.   The venue is likely to be a London area location and the event will run along the lines of last year’s Lytton Arms Knebworth gathering with various attractions and specials guests to be announced. More …

Jimmy Page was in attendance at the launch of the Royal Mail’s Classic Album Cover Stamps at the Rough Trade record shop in London. Speaking about the Led Zeppelin fourth album design Jimmy said   “Almost 40 years after the album came out, nobody knows the old man who featured on the cover, nor the artist who painted him – that sort of sums up what we wanted to achieve with the album cover, which has remained both anonymous and enigmatic at the same time.”. The stamps are on sale from …