CELEBRATION DAY CHART WATCH:
Celebration Day looks set to enter the UK album chart at number 2 this week – which is a very credible sales performance for a band who split 32 years ago and given the current seasonal competition – Rihanna’s Unaplogetic is at number one, Zep at two, One Direction at three, Little Mix four and Susan Boyle at five. (Above pic thanks to Kevin Turner)
ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE:

The new issue of Rolling Stone has Jimmy on the front cover and an interview inside which has had plenty of coverage …

The TBL Celebration Countdown continues…to mark the impending momentous worldwide release of  Celebration Day – the Led Zeppelin Ahmet Ertegun 02 reunion concert on DVD, Blue ray and CD on Monday November 19th 2012 , we are counting down to the day….
Countdown to the Celebration Day release …4 days to go.
Official Black Dog clip:

CELEBRATION DAY BONUS DVD REVIEW:
Here’s my thoughts on the Celebration Day bonus DVD. If you want to wait for find what’s in store then as they say on the sports news results programmes …you need to …

The TBL Celebration Countdown continues…to mark the impending momentous worldwide release of  Celebration Day – the Led Zeppelin Ahmet Ertegun 02 reunion concert on DVD, Blue ray and CD on Monday November 19th 2012 , we are counting down to the day….
Countdown to the Celebration Day release …6 days to go.
Here is Jose Manuel Parada’s review from the showing in Guayaquil,  Ecuador : The Celebration Day global juke box contines..
Went to see Celebration Day last friday…, what a tremendous work they have done. The movie is as real as …

There’s a host of great TBL reading coming your way for the summer. I’ve just been looking over the final proofs of the new issue of the  new Tight But Loose magazine – and I have to say this is simply one of the best issues ever – with a varied mix news, views and features, all guaranteed to take you closer to the world of Led Zeppelin. I really do want to shout about this one from the rooftops because it really deserves to be seen and read… and …

It was an indictment of the recent unsavoury state of affairs in the UK that when I appeared on the Californian based rock station Used Bin Pure Rock Radio last Wednesday at the unearthly hour of 5am,the first topic was not Led Zeppelin, but the situation with the riots that had spread over the UK –images of which had shocked the world. We did soon settle in for a lengthy early morning ramble on the Led Zeppelin Feather In The Wind Over Europe 1980 book, the state of play with …

It was great to be back in the vacinity of those May daze of 1975 this week when a visit to the London Trade Book Fair took me back to Earls Court. Coming out of the tube and seeing that grand old building come into view is like catching up on some much missed distant relation. It will be a shame of this monument to so many historic occasions is allowed to disappear under the bulldozer in the name of so called progress.
I was at the fair with my good …

John Paul Jones will be performing at the forthcoming Cheltenham Jazz Festival as  part of Spin Marvel, an electronic jazz group. The band  includes  Loose Tubes drummer Martin France, celebrated trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer and Terje Evensen on live elctronics. JPJ completes the line up on bass guitar. The group’s appearance is on Saturday  April 30th at 5:15pm in the main arena.
See link at www.cheltenhamfestivals.com

Robert Plant and The Band Of Joy commence their US tour tonight in Louisville – if you are attending any of the forthcoming  shows – …

40 years ago this evening, Jimmy Page strapped on a newly acquired Gibson double neck guitar and played the first chords of a new lengthy composition in front of an audience for the first time.
The occasion was Led Zeppelin’s opening date on their UK tour at the Ulster Hall Belfast. The historic photo below captures the moment…

The song was Stairway To Heaven
The rest is history….
As TBL contributor Rikky Rooksby observes in the introduction to a major feature on Stairway To Heaven to be published in the next Tight But Loose …

Above:  The Knebworth 31st Anniversary Revellers  – TBL Totnes HQ Wednesday August 4th 2010 – DL, Cliff Hilliard, Tom Locke, Terry Boud and Mark Harrison.  Photo by Adam Lewis
The last few days have been dominated by a wave of nostalgia for the 31st anniversary Knebworth. I’d intended to mark the occasion on the site and with a few Facebook postings but it all became a bit more than that.  The response to the postings has been quite amazing – maybe I should not be too surprised about this reaction, as …

The TBL Limited Edition Earls Court 35th anniversary T. shirt is now available.
Be sure to be seen in the coolest T. shirt of the summer
Positive feedback so far for this essential TBL accessory:
”It looks fantastic and quality is superb.  Will definitely wear with pride!  I have a unique t shirt that I wear to gigs and have done since ’93.  This will be retired in favour of the Earls Court t shirt” -Carl Jacobs/UK
The T shirt is a Fruit of the Loom Super Premium quality white shirt with the Jimmy …