TBL Celebrates the 40th anniversary of Led Zeppelin at Earls Court:
Turning the clock back 40 years..
SATURDAY MAY 24 1975
TICKET BLOCK AA ROW B SEAT 8
Ticket Price £2.50
Setlist: Rock And Roll/Sick Again/Over The Hills And Far Away/In My Time Of Dying/The Song Remains The Same/The Rain Song/Kashmir/No Quarter/Tangerine/Going To California/That’s The Way/Bron-Y-Aur Stomp/Trampled Underfoot/Moby Dick/Dazed And Confused (inc. Woodstock)/Stairway To Heaven/Whole Lotta Love – The Crunge – Black Dog.
My friend Dec had queued up for these tickets for this one over night when they went on sale in March. Seven of …

TBL Celebrates the 40th anniversary of Led Zeppelin at Earls Court:
Turning the clock back 40 years..
Friday May 23, 1975
Ticket Price £1.00
Setlist: Rock And Roll/Sick Again/Over The Hills And Far Away/In My Time Of Dying/The Song Remains The Same/The Rain Song/Kashmir/No Quarter/Tangerine/Going To California/That’s The Way/Bron-Y-Aur Stomp/Trampled Underfoot/Moby Dick/Dazed And Confused (inc. San Francisco)/Stairway To Heaven/Whole Lotta Love – The Crunge – Black Dog.
So imagine waking up on a Friday morning with the prospect of over nine hours of live Led Zeppelin in store over the next three days.
Talk about the …

133 Glorious days to Five Glorious Nights: Led Zeppelin at Earls Court May 1975 photo book latest:
It was somewhat fitting that on Tuesday – the 40th anniversary of the May 18 gig, designer Mick Lowe and I finally signed off the checking and approving of the final proof copy of the Five Glorious Days Led Zeppelin at Earls Court photo book.
To backtrack on it all:
We did the first test layouts some 133 days ago on Tuesday January 6th. During January and February I wrote the text pieces. As the contact …

TBL Celebrates the 40th anniversary of Led Zeppelin at Earls Court:
Turning the clock back 40 years..
Sunday May 18, 1975
Setlist: Rock And Roll/Sick Again/Over The Hills And Far Away/In My Time Of Dying/The Song Remains The Same/The Rain Song/Kashmir/No Quarter/Tangerine/Going To California/That’s The Way/Bron-Y-Aur Stomp/Trampled Underfoot/Moby Dick/Dazed And Confused (inc. Woodstock)/Stairway To Heaven/Whole Lotta Love – The Crunge – Black Dog.
In the morning I’d got the Sunday Observer with the colour suppelment magazine with that Tony Palmer feature in.
”Led Zeppelin bigger than The Beatles?” proclaimed the front cover. What a compliment…and a …

TBL Celebrates the 40th anniversary of Led Zeppelin at Earls Court:
Turning the clock back 40 years:  Saturday May 17th 1975:
Setlist: Rock And Roll/Sick Again/Over The Hills And Far Away/In My Time Of Dying/The Song Remains The Same/The Rain Song/Kashmir/No Quarter/Tangerine/Going To California/That’s The Way/Bron-Y-Aur Stomp/Trampled Underfoot/Moby Dick/Dazed And Confused (inc. Woodstock)/Stairway To Heaven/Whole Lotta Love – Black Dog.
May 17th a dull rainy Saturday. Left Bedford around 4pm on the train and met then girlfriend Fiona in London for the long awaited return. I’d been counting the days down since …

Robert Plant Pays tribute to Ben E King:
Robert Plant has paid a heartfelt tribute to the soul legend Ben E King who sadly passed away aged 76 on April 30.
In a tribute for Uncut magazine he said:
“His was the voice of my ‘coming of age’… dramatic… imploring… pained… spectacular… I learned his every nuance. I lived in grief and joy in his songs and, crazily much later in time we became friends, in our “‘Atlantic’ connection… A wonderful, kind man. A huge influence, loved and respected by so many. My thoughts go …

Led Zeppelin Five Glorious Nights: Latest update – pre- order offer final extension:
Five Glorious Nights – Led Zeppelin at Earls Court May 1975 – compiled by Dave Lewis & published by Rufus Stone Limited Editions:
Exclusive TBL/ Rufus Stone Pre -order Details:
Pre sale offer now extended to Friday May 8th:
Publishers Rufus Stone are now running an exclusive pre sale for TBL readers and those who signed up for info on the book. This offer is now extended for the final time to Friday May 8th.
The book will go on general sale for …

Bron -Yr -Aur Project Launch:
More coverage of the Bron- Yr- Aur project – the exhibition of which opens this Saturday April 25:
Ecologist Scott Roe, 42, now lives in the cottage with his family and launched the Bron- Yr- Aur art project when artist and Led Zeppelin fan Jim Stallings from Macon, Georgia, USA, made a simple request for photographs.
He said: “What began as a simple request for photographs quickly developed into the Bron- Yr- Aur project.
“For the first time since Jimmy Page and Robert Plant’s famed visit to our cottage …

Boot Led Zeppelin celebrate Led Zeppelin at Earls Court with 40th anniversary Shepherds Bush gig:
UK tribute band Boot Led Zeppelin will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of the famous Zep Earls Court shows with a showcase gig on Saturday May 9. The venue is the Shepherds Bush Empire in London. The band will be be recreating the magic of Zep in ’75 with a special Earls Court set.
This will be a great way of kick starting the 40th anniversary activity – I am aiming to be in attendance with the …

Exclusive TBL/ Rufus Stone Pre order Details:
Here’s an opportunity to pre order the forthcoming Earls Court photo book at a special offer price… 
Five Glorious Nights – Led Zeppelin at Earls Court compiled by Dave Lewis published by Rufus Stone Limited Editions:
The forthcoming large format photographic book capturing the full visual splendour of Led Zeppelin’s milestone concerts at Earls Court in May 1975.
The book includes over 200 colour and black and white photos –many of them rarely seen plus accompanying text that explains why these concerts were among the finest the …