[22 Jan 2025 | No Comment | 239 views]
NEW ISSUE OF RECORD COLLECTOR WITH 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF PHYSICAL GRAFFITI COVER FEATURE/LZ NEWS/LED ZEPPELIN 1 – IT WAS 56 YEARS AGO/LZ NEWS/1975 SNAPSHOT/MY SEVEN NIGHTS WITH ZEP IN 1977/ROBERT PLANT LEICESTER 1988/VICTORIA VIP RECORD FAIR/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

New issue of Record Collector with 50th Anniversary Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti cover feature out this week…

Back in early September last year, Paul Lester the editor of Record Collector got in touch to ask me if there was much scope on a feature marking 50th anniversary of the release of Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti.

My reply was yes there was a lot of scope and we began formulating ideas for a major front cover feature.

The were a fair few twists and turns along the way and I’ve lived with all this …

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[22 Jan 2025 | No Comment | 239 views]

New issue of Record Collector with 50th Anniversary Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti cover feature out this week…

Back in early September last year, Paul Lester the editor of Record Collector got in touch to ask me if there was much scope on a feature marking 50th anniversary of the release of Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti.

My reply was yes there was a lot of scope and we began formulating ideas for a major front cover feature.

The were a fair few twists and turns along the way and I’ve lived with all this …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[15 Jan 2025 | One Comment | 1,022 views]

Becoming Led Zeppelin film UK tickets on sale Friday January 17:
This via LZ News…
Sony Pictures UK announced this week that tickets for “Becoming Led Zeppelin” will go on sale in the UK on January 17. The film’s full-length trailer that was released last month is on the way to cinemas in the UK. It was rated 12A by the British Board of Film Classification.
See more at:
https://ledzepnews.com/

Screenings:

Keep an eye on the official website for further details to be announced…
https://becomingledzeppelinfilm.com/
BFI IMAX Cinema…
I am aiming for this venue for the February 5 showing …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[9 Jan 2025 | No Comment | 1,085 views]
JIMMY PAGE ON THE OCCASION OF HIS BIRTHDAY/LZ NEWS/MICK BONHAM /TBL 1975 SNAPSHOT/LIFE WITH THE STARS/GEORGE HARRISON/NEW FRANKFURT OVER EUROPE 1980 BOOTLEG LP SET DUE/ BEDFORD VIP RECORD FAIR/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

Jimmy Page on the occasion of his Birthday….
Jimmy Page is 81 years old today January 9th.
In a career that has spanned over seven decades, he has more than made his mark when it comes to the art of rock guitar playing.
From monolithic riffing to bombastic solos. From simple acoustic beauty to vast guitar instrumental orchestration. Jazz, classical and Eastern influences, blues, 50s rock’n’roll and psychedelic – he has turned his hand to all these varying styles over the years.  Always inventive and with a brilliant ear for production values, Jimmy …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[3 Jan 2025 | No Comment | 863 views]
JOHN PAUL JONES ON THE OCCASION OF HIS BIRTHDAY/JOHNNIE WALKER RIP/LZ NEWS/REMEMBERING RICHARD COLE/DAVID BOWIE 9 YEARS GONE/BEDFORD VIP RECORD FAIR/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

John Paul Jones on the occasion of his 79th Birthday:
John Paul Jones  is  79 years old today – on Friday January 3…
To celebrate his Birthday here is the John Paul Jones 79 at 79 TBL Playlist as follows:
John Paul Jones 79 at 79 – The TBL Playlist:
1    Foggy Day In Vietnam – Available on: Your Time is Gonna Come –The Roots Of Led Zeppelin (1964)
2    Baja – Available on: Your Time is Gonna Come –The Roots Of Led Zeppelin (1964)
3    Little Games (The Yardbirds)  –  Available on: The Yardbirds Little Games (1967)
4    She’s A Rainbow …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[28 Dec 2024 | No Comment | 716 views]

Latest Becoming Led Zeppelin news…

Here’s the latest on the Becoming Led Zeppelin film and more via the LedZepNews round up:

Led Zeppelin
More news on the release of ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’
This week has seen a festive blizzard of news about next year’s release of “Becoming Led Zeppelin”.
We now have confirmation that the film will be released in the UK on February 5. Following the film’s IMAX-exclusive release in the US and Canada on February 7, it will then have a nationwide release on 1,000 screens in the US on February 14.
We also learned this …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[19 Dec 2024 | 2 Comments | 1,106 views]
BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN SET FOR UK FEB 2025 SHOWINGS/WHOLE LOTTA LOVE – A PEOPLE’S HISTORY BOOK REVIEW/ MOJO ZEP ESSENTIALS/SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS -TBL CHRISTMAS SPECIAL – ALLY PALLY ’72/LZ NEWS/ A CHRISTMAS STORY /TBL NOSTALGIA/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

Great news…Becoming Led Zeppelin set for UK screenings – this via LedZep News…
“Becoming Led Zeppelin” will be released in the UK on February 5, LedZepNews has learned.
The film will be exclusively available on IMAX screens in the UK on February 5 and February 6 before a wider, non-IMAX release on February 7.
A new UK trailer and poster have been produced by the film’s UK distributor Sony Pictures UK:

The announcement of the film’s UK release follows two weeks of uncertainty about plans to release “Becoming Led Zeppelin” in the UK. Screenings …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[8 Dec 2024 | No Comment | 1,088 views]
AHMET ERTEGUN LED ZEPPELIN 02 REUNION -17 YEARS GONE – MEMORIES FROM A VERY SPECIAL NIGHT/LZ NEWS/JIMMY ATTENDS RINGO STARR LONDON ALBUM LAUNCH/GOLDEN LION REUNION 1981/PRESSING NEWS – BRITISH MUSIC AS IT HAPPENED 1962 -1972 REVIEW/ DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

Led Zeppelin Reunion for Ahmet Ertegun at the 02 Arena – 17 years gone…TBL Anniversary Special…
Kicking off the TBL 17th anniversary celebrations with this piece from Mark Cunningham who was at the rehearsals and at that night of nights…
THE MIRACLE OF 2007
A random outpouring of recollection.
That was an incredible time to be alive, especially in my position as the founding editor of live production industry magazine TPi (Total Production International), whose responsibility it was to report on the design and execution of the best shows around.
I was also a co-founder …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[5 Dec 2024 | No Comment | 765 views]
DECEMBER 4 1980 – THEY COULD NOT CONTINUE AS THEY WERE / BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN OFFICIAL TRAILER/LZ NEWS/CODA – IT WAS 42 YEARS AGO/THE MAKING OF LED ZEPPELIN IV – PART THREE/WHOLE LOTTA LOVE UK SINGLE IN 1969/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

It was 44 years ago …they could not continue as they were…

44 years ago this week I vividly remember taking a call from the Musician’s Only paper and being asked for a quote regarding the announcement that Led Zeppelin were to disband.
These were sad times indeed – and it was about to get worse. The whole ‘Zep to split’ story would get buried somewhat when just four days later John Lennon was shot dead in New York…
Looking back at my diary entry for 44 years ago for December 4, it …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[27 Nov 2024 | One Comment | 1,075 views]
JASON BONHAM LZ EVENING LIVE IN INDIANA REPORT/SAVING GRACE IN WOKING/DL ROBERT PLANT BOOK INTERVIEW/LZ NEWS/MELODY MAKER POLL AWARDS 45 YEARS GONE/RICHARD COLE REMEMBERED/LED ZEP IV /RUFUS BLACK FRIDAY/VICTORIA RECORD FAIR/RECORD COLLECTOR PRICE GUIDE /DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

 Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening  –  Hard Rock Casino Gary Indiana – November 21 2024 – on the spot report via Ed Bode:

Jason and his band continue to perform the catalogue of Led Zeppelin in a very respectful manner that keeps the music very much alive and well.
This was the second show of his current tour and the band are definitely fresh, energetic, and enjoying what they do.

The set list was  different this time around and included some songs not heard in a long time – , of course there …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

[21 Nov 2024 | No Comment | 765 views]
ELECTRIC MAGIC – 53 YEARS GONE/ LZ NEWS/KNEBWORTH BOOK LAUNCH 2013/THE BEATLES WHITE ALBUM IT WAS 56 YEARS AGO/ DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

ELECTRIC MAGIC  53 YEARS GONE:
November 21st is always a bit of a special date in my calendar year – as it was on this day back in 1971 that I was lucky enough to witness Led Zeppelin live at the Empire Pool Wembley –and as you will read, nothing was ever the same in our house after that. Over the next few days  I’ll be wading through the Empire Strikes Back Tarantura CD box set to recall the night the Wembley Empire Pool was, as the Melody Maker headline ran  …