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LED ZEPPELIN EARLS COURT AT 50 TBL MEET ON MAY 17 AT KINGS HEAD PUB – DETAILS / TBL ARCHIVE ATLANTA & TAMPA 73/ RETRO ADVERTS AND REVIEWS APRIL 1969/TBL FLASHBACK 2007 AND 2018/ ZACRON ARTWORK RC STORY/ RICHARD THOMPSON REVIEW/MIKE PETERS RIP/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

TBL Celebrates Led Zeppelin at Earls Court at 50 – Saturday May 17 2025 at the Kings Head pub Earls Court:
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the epic run of five concerts Led Zeppelin performed at Earls Court on the nights of May 17,18,23,24 and 25.
To celebrate this momentous anniversary I am having a TBL pub meet in London on Saturday May 17 2025 – 50 years to the day of the first Earls Court show.

The location is:
The King’s Head, Earl’s Court, 17 Hogarth Place, Earl’s Court, London, SW5 …

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LED ZEPPELIN EARLS COURT AT 50 TBL MEET ON MAY 17 AT KINGS HEAD PUB – DETAILS / TBL ARCHIVE ATLANTA & TAMPA 73/ RETRO ADVERTS AND REVIEWS APRIL 1969/TBL FLASHBACK 2007 AND 2018/ ZACRON ARTWORK RC STORY/ RICHARD THOMPSON REVIEW/MIKE PETERS RIP/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

TBL Celebrates Led Zeppelin at Earls Court at 50 – Saturday May 17 2025 at the Kings Head pub Earls Court:
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the epic run of five concerts Led Zeppelin performed at Earls Court on the nights of May 17,18,23,24 and 25.
To celebrate this momentous anniversary I am having a TBL pub meet in London on Saturday May 17 2025 – 50 years to the day of the first Earls Court show.

The location is:
The King’s Head, Earl’s Court, 17 Hogarth Place, Earl’s Court, London, SW5 …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

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TBL ARCHIVE – THE DESTROYER AND PONTIAC 1977/ ROBERT PLANT FATE OF NATIONS -32 YEARS GONE/TBL FLASHBACK 2010 ROBERT PLANT SOUND & VISION/TBL RETRO CHARTS AND ADVERTS 1975/VICTORIA RECORD FAIR/56 YEARS OF DL MUSICAL PASSION/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

TBL Archive…1977:
Led Zeppelin – The Destroyer 48 years Gone:

The first recordings I heard of the 1977 US tour was an echo laded audience tape from the April 28 Cleveland show. I had this arrive via one of my key collector contacts Russ Rees about a month after the gig. Despite the average sound, it was still a thrill to hear the likes of Ten Years Gone and Achilles Last Stand performed live. In 1980 a soundboard mixing desk tape emerged of their April 27 gig. This was altogether something else …

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EARLS COURT AT 50 TBL MEET PLAN FOR MAY 17/TBL ARCHIVE JIMMY PAGE & ROBERT PLANT BUXTON 31 YEARS GONE/HAMMERSMITH 1988/WALKING INTO CLARKSDALE 27 YEARS GONE/TBL THROWBACK 1973/RETRO CHARTS 1975/ELECTRIC LADYLAND/ RSD 2025/MORGAN HOWELL ART WORK/TOKYO 1971/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

A date for the diary:

TBL Celebrates Led Zeppelin at Earls Court at 50 – Saturday May 17 2025…

Next month marks the 50th anniversary of the epic run of five concerts Led Zeppelin performed at Ears Court on the nights of May 17,18, 23, 24 and 25 1975.

To celebrate this momentous anniversary, I am having a TBL pub meet in London on Saturday May 17 2025 – 50 years to the day of the first Earls Court show.

I am not sure of the location yet – perhaps a pub in the …

Dave Lewis Diary, Featured, TBL News »

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JIMMY PAGE & THE BLACK CROWES LIVE AT THE GREEK 25TH ANNIVERSARY RELEASE / TBL ARCHIVE SPECIAL – PAGE & PLANT ON TOUR IN THE USA 30 YEARS GONE/TBL FLASHBACK – SAVIING GRACE 2022 & LUCIFER RISING 2012/RETRO CHARTS/ BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN STREAMING/ SOUND ON SOUND MAG/ RSD 2025/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

My thoughts on…
 Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes –  Live at The Greek new reissue…
First some pre-amble to put this release into perspective…
In 1998 Jimmy Page and Robert Plant undertook their second tour together dubbed the Walking into Everywhere tour. This took them across Eastern Europe, America and Central Europe. It also  coincided with the release of the Walking Into Clarksdale album.
The stripped down five-piece line-up of Page, Plant, Michael Lee on drums, Charlie Jones on bass and keyboard player Phil Andrews was in stark contrast to the Unledded tour. …

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TBL ARCHIVE SPECIAL 1 – BBC RADIO ONE JOHN PEEL IN CONCERT IT WAS 54 YEARS AGO/ TBL ARCHIVE SPECIAL 2 – PRESENCE AT 49/ IT WAS 15 AND 10 YEARS AGO FLASHBACKS/THROWBACK RETROS 1969 AND 1971/THE WHO ROYAL ALBERT HALL REVIEW/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

TBL Archive Special 1:

BBC Radio One John Peel In Concert  – It was 54 years ago…
Reeling in the year: Capturing the sounds of BBC Radio One on a Sunday night in April – The Wonder of Devotion…
Led Zeppelin BBC Radio One In Concert – It was 54 years ago this week:
54 years ago, on Sunday April 4 1971, I first heard the music of Led Zeppelin performed live and the effect was pretty shattering to the ears of a young 14 year old – not to mention rather lasting…
The occasion …

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CAMDEN DUBLIN CASTLE ZEP BOOK CLUB EVENT WITH CODA LIVE / ZACRON ARTWORK SOLD/ LZ NEWS/HOUSES OF THE HOLY AT 52DEBORAH BONHAM BAND LATEST/ PAGE & PLANT AND MAD MONTH OF MARCH 1998/ THE WHO AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL/THE GREAT RECORD BUYING SWINDLE/ DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

Led Zeppelin night at The Dublin Castle Rock ‘N ‘Roll Book Club featuring full live Led Zeppelin set by CODA – a Tribute to Led Zeppelin

Wednesday March 26 2025

We had a great night at the Dublin Castle Rock And Roll Book Club event in Camden.

It was an excellent turn out. Richard Houghton, the author of the Led Zeppelin Whole Lotta Love A People’s History took to the stage with me to be interviewed by the excellent Alison.

The conversation revolved around the early impact of Zep in the US as featured …

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JOHN PAUL JONES VINTAGE NEWSPAPER REPORTS DISCOVERED/ BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN LATEST/ TBL ARCHIVE 1975 SNAPSHOT -PRELUDE TO EARLS COURT/ CAMDEN DUBLIN CASTLE ZEP EVENT/LZ NEWS/GOLDRUSH 1970/ FRANKFURT 1980 BOOTLEG SET REVIEWED/BEATLES MAG/BILLY SHEARS BOOK/L DIARY BLOG UPDATE

John Paul Jones vintage newspaper reports discovered ….
A couple of remarkable John Paul Jones vintage newspaper cuttings have emerged via research by Jeff Norrod in Tennessee.
Firstly from the Lincolnshire Echo Thursday September 10 1953

Under a column marked Commentary from City and Country by the Gossiper – a subsection titled Old Friends it talks of John’s parents meeting up with old friends  and also reports the following;
Both Joe Baldwin and his wife are keen anglers: indeed it is the attraction of the water courses around the city that has brought them …

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LED ZEP WHOLE LOTTA LOVE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL BOOK CLUB EVENT INCLUDING LIVE CODA PERFORMANCE/JOHN BONHAM RHYTHM OF REDDTICH EVENT POSTPONED/ LZ NEWS/PAGE & PLANT ISTANBUL IT WAS YEARS 27 YEARS AGO/COVERDALE PAGE 1993/EARLS COURT TICKETS/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

Led Zeppelin night at The Dublin Castle Rock ‘N ‘Roll Book Club featuring full live  Led Zeppelin set by CODA – a Tribute to Led Zeppelin
Wednesday March 26 2025

I will be talking with author Richard Houghton about his book Led Zeppelin Whole Lotta Love -A People’s History and all things Zep during a Q and A at a special Led Zep Rock N Roll Book Club event at the Dublin Castle venue in Camden – the brilliant Coda tribute band will also be performing live.

Full details below – we look …

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[6 Mar 2025 | 2 Comments | 929 views]
BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN EXTENDED UK CINEMA RUN/UNCUT NEW INTERVIEWS/JIMMY PAGE COMMENTS IN THE TIMES ON AI /CAMDEN Q AND A BOOK EVENT AND CODA LIVE/ LZ NEWS/STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN IT WAS 54 YEARS AGO/SIMPLY LED BACK TO BELFAST 2001/RRPL EXHIBITION/ DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

 

Great news here…

Official Press Release March 3 2025:

BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN
RECORD-BREAKING DOCUMENTARY EXTENDS UK CINEMA RUN

***** MOJO

9/10 Uncut

**** Financial Times

***** NME

**** Evening Standard

**** Mail on Sunday

**** Louder

“Documentaries of this sort live and die on their archive, and Becoming Led Zeppelin doesn’t disappoint on that front” – Dylan Jones, Evening Standard

3rd March 2025 – The record-breaking documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin, the only officially sanctioned film on the iconic rock group that has already become one of the most successful music documentaries this year, surpassing multiple box office records, has extended its UK …

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PHYSICAL GRAFFITI – IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK /UNCUT MAGAZINE PHYSICAL GRAFFITI COVER STORY/ SEATTLE 1975 CINE CLIP/BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN REVIEW/LZ NEWS/BOB DYLAN A COMPLETE UNKNOWN FILM/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE

Physical Graffiti – It was 50 years ago…

DL/TBL Physical Graffiti throwback…celebrating the release of Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti 50 years ago..

Some thoughts on what Physical Graffiti means to me 50 years to the week it was released back in February 1975.

I was a mere 18 years old and learning about life with every waking day…

I was obsessed with music (still am!) and no more so than the music than that created by my favourite group Led Zeppelin.

The previous October I had been lucky enough to secure a dream job – …