The new issue of Record Collector out this week, includes my 40th anniversary feature on The Rolling Stones Goats Head Soup album. This is the seventh cover story feature I have had published in Record Collector over the past five years – four Led Zep, two on The Who, a Nick Drake, Rod Stewart and now The Rolling Stones. These back issues are still available at
http://recordcollectormag.com/issues-list
See more on this below…
Firstly…a bit of timely TBL Archive to kick off  proceedings …as the legendary Live On Blueberry Hill album comes under the spotlight… 
With …

Led Zeppelin Honoured In Denmark 45 years to the day of their their first concert…
45 years ago on September 7th 1968, the line soon to be known as Led Zeppelin performed their very first concert in Gladsaxe Denmark.. The occasion was being marked yesterday with an unveiling of a plaque at the school they appeared at.
Above photo -: Flemming Hjøllund.
Further info at:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ledzeppelin45years/588002421232906?fref=ts
www.ledzeppelin1968.com
http://www.teenclubs.dk/Led_Zeppelins_first_gig.html

REMEMBERING 45 YEARS GONE….
With The New Yardbirds line-up complete, there was an outstanding engagement to fulfil that was left over from the old Yardbirds’ date sheet ­- a ten-date tour …

57 VARIETIES –  ON THE OCCASION OF MY BIRTHDAY…
Today I reach the ripe old age of 57.
You could say I’m marking 57 Varieties of life -as the famous tin can might present it….
To backtrack….I was 7 years old when I first saw a live concert (The Dave Clark Five show), 9 when I first saw Tottenham Hotspur play, 13 when I first heard Led Zeppelin, 15 when I first started work, 18 when I saw Led Zeppelin perform five times at Earls Court, 21 when I jumped on stage with …

Robert Plant Presents Sensational Space Shifters – Civic Hall Wolverhampton – Monday September 2nd, 2013
Set List:
Babe I’m Gonna Leave You/Satan Your Kingdome Must Come Down/Tin Pan Valley/ /Spoonful/Black Dog/Another Tribe/Going to California/The Enchanter/ Four Sticks/Friends/ Fixin to Die/ What is And What Should Never Be/ Whole Lotta Love (including Who Do You Love). Encores – Big Log, Rock And Roll. 
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Another consummate performance by Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters in Wolverhampton  – easily on a par with the Bristol show –same set list, humorous Plant banter throughout and …

Robert Plant Presents Sensational Space Shifters – Colston Hall  Bristol  Thursday August 29th, 2013.
Set List:
Babe I’m Gonna Leave You/Satan Your Kingdome Must Come Down/Tin Pan Valley/ /Spoonful/Black Dog/Another Tribe/Going to California/The Enchanter/ Four Sticks/Friends/ Fixin to Die/ What is And What Should Never Be/ Whole Lotta Love (including Who Do You Love). Encores – Big Log, Rock And Roll. Above pic by DL for TBL
What a night…
Great crowd – very enthusiastic and a cross section of ages.
From the start, Robert was totally compelling – Babe I’m Gonna Leave You …

Robert Plant Presents The Sensational Space Shifters roll back to the UK this week for three long awaited appearances.  Tomorrow night they are in Bristol at the Colston Hall, on Saturday it’s to Stradbally Co Laois in Ireland for the Electric Picnic festival. Finally it’s back on familiar territory for a date on Monday at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall.
These are the first dates in the UK since last July’s Womad appearance and before that, the Gloucester SSS debut and HMV Forum show. It’s been too long…
Since those tentative first steps, …

Robert Plant is 65 today…
From his initial forays into the Midlands scene in the mid 60’s, through to his vital contribution to Led Zeppelin and on to an always compelling solo career, Robert Plant has occupied a unique position at the forefront of popular musical culture for over five decades…
That unmistakeable voice and that charismatic presence, together with a relentless thirst for musical invention have placed Robert Plant in a category of his own.
In the past 12 months, working within the dynamic Sensational Space Shifters line up, he has yet again lit up …

 
Led Zeppelin To Be Honoured In Denmark
This via the official Led Zeppelin site:
September 7, 2013, marks the 45 year anniversary since Led Zeppelin played their very first concert. Now the British rock stars are getting a special plaque right where it all began; in a primary school in Gladsaxe.
In Denmark, Led Zeppelin made themselves into rock history September 7,1968. There was, as we know, many interesting things around the world that year. That there was an English rockband that played on a Saturday night in Gladsaxe Teen Club in the …

It was 34 years ago today…
On the 34th anniversary of Led Zeppelin’s August 11th gig  at Knebworth….
Comments, recollections and memories from the second week out in that field…taken from the forthcoming book Led Zeppelin Then As It Was – At Knebworth 1979 written and compiled by Dave Lewis:
“It was an April morning when they told us we should go…”
In late April 1979 the air crackled with an electric expectation; whispers grew to a muted roar and, as the supercharged clouds of rumour gathered, finally the news broke.  Full page ads …

 
John Bonham Memorial Statue Fund Plan:
This via the Redditch Standard
A Fund has been set-up to install a permanent memorial in the town to one of  Britain’s greatest musicians and arguably Redditch’s most famous resident.
The John Bonham Memorial Fund will aim to collect as much money as possible  to have a statue or sculpture erected in honour of the Led Zeppelin drummer who  was born, educated and grew up in Redditch.
It is hoped space will be found within the town centre for the statue, with  the bandstand area previously mooted.
The fund …