So here we go – opener Whole Lotta Love is performed as per the original right down to the swirling middle section. Kashmir is powered by a compelling orchestral enhanced riff arrangement that really brings out the hypnotic quality of the original. It will no doubt spur many listeners to search out the originals – not least the singer herself who no doubt now has a full shelf of Zep albums. ROBERT PLANT SAVING GRACE UK TOUR FIRST NIGHT REVIEW/DEBORAH BONHAM NEWS/LZ NEWS/REMASTERS – IT WAS 33 YEARS AGO /PRIORY OF BRION1999/BEATLES AT STOWE & NOW AND THEN /DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE This exciting news broke on Saturday and was all over the Led Zep Facebook groups – a newly surfaced audience tape of the Led Zeppelin’July 5, 1969 performance at the Atlanta International Pop Festival emerged online…

Stairway To Heaven is played in the conventional manner, though outside of beefing up as a rap number (heaven forbid!) is perhaps only way to do it. The finale has something of the regal status the Wilson’s brought to their epic version at the Kennedy Honors ceremony The fact perhaps that this view was totally unobtrusive – no baying fellow crowds or photographers – just me in line with the singer I’ve followed for some 52 years. It was absolutely awe inspiring. CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY INTERVIEW FOR NEXT TBL/ ROBERT PLANT US TOUR REPORTS/INTERVIEW CLIP / YOU TUBE CLIPS/ DL DIARY UPDATE - 27,686 viewsLike I said – it’s not just an album…its a way of life…being re acquainted with this incredible new remastered reissue has been quite life affirming PATTY GRIFFIN WITH ROBERT PLANT ON LATER LIVE/ROUGH TRADE EAST IN STORE PERFORMANCE /JOHN PAUL JONES WITH MINIBUS PIMPS FOR NATTJAZZ/ ROBERT AT COLLEGE AUTISM BENEFIT GIG/ FATE OF NATIONS – KING’S HE... - 31,797 views ROBERT PLANT PERFORMS STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN AT ANDY TAYLOR CHARITY CONCERT/MR JIMMY FILM/LZ NEWS/LED ZEP II AT 54/THE MAKING OF LED ZEP III/SONG REMAINS/TERRY REID REVIEW/ROLLING STONES REVIEW/WHO’S NEXT/DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE As it turned out we had to wait 31 years before it surfaced in May 2003. I always felt the original How The West Was Won release got somewhat lost as it was released simultaneously alongside the marathon five hour official DVD set. I am very pleased to announce a new online digital archive that will provide access to hours of historically significant Led Zeppelin radio broadcasts

Lee Clarke on ROBERT PLANT SAVING GRACE UK TOUR FIRST NIGHT REVIEW/DEBORAH BONHAM NEWS/LZ NEWS/REMASTERS – IT WAS 33 YEARS AGO /PRIORY OF BRION1999/BEATLES AT STOWE & NOW AND THEN /DL DIARY BLOG UPDATE Tonight, we intend to take a knife and cut right through the glorious ice cream of Led Zeppelin. You get a little bit of vanilla, a little bit of chocolate, a little bit of colour and a little bit of everything” The photograph has also been identified as likely showing Wiltshire thatcher Lot Long and was taken by Ernest Howard Farmer. By 1981’s Still Life release my interest in live Stones albums was on the wane. In recent years Stones fans have been well served with live recordings notably in the From The Vaults series – and I did indulge in the Marquee 1971 set and the excellent Brussels Affair form 1973. Featuring… John Paul Jones Thunderthief, Robert Plant Dreamland, Strange Sensations Live, Justin Adams Interview, Led Zep the DVD Project, Pictures At Eleven, Bob Harris – Zeppelin and the Whistle Test, Neal Preston, plus much much more.Oh for the zest to do all that again as here I am some 46 years later somewhat wearier but feeling very thankful and blessed to have reached this milestone… Janis Joplin was queen of the festival and Led Zepellin (sic) was king… Everybody up and moving their bodies to Jimmy Paige’s (sic) searing blues riffs. Our amazing energy and force can be partially realized at the sight of 100,000 dancing together, stoned freaks. The vibes could certainly shake down the walls of a city.”

Robert Plant and Sensational Space Shifters live in Paris and at the BluesFest at the 02 plus exclusive Seth Lakeman interview It’s worth mentioning here I have a bit of stigma about Rolling Stones live albums. I happen to think they made their best live recordings when they were making that run of classic albums that began with Let It Bleed in 1969 and ran through the next decade with the release of Some Girls in 1978.This is the sound of a band finding new avenues for their music at every developing gig – and this is the sound that in the summer of 1969, simply slayed every audience they accounted… The latest episode of the Zepfan podcast interviews Artie Costanzo who recorded 10 Led Zeppelin shows. Forget The Police and anyone else rumoured to be reforming … 26 years to the day of their first gig, The Honeydrippers made this the only reunion worth talking about around these parts … and provided a memorable 60th birthday for sound engineer Roy Williams.

Notable cover version of Zep songs include Betty Joe’s fairly straight rendering of D’yer M’aker, Patti Boulaye’s take on All My Love and Far Corporation’s rather saccharine attempt at Stair ay To Heaven – a 1985 UK hit.

TBL 21 : Released August 2008

There was something of a set list surprise next with a recall to active duty of Four Winds Blow from the Mighty ReArranger album and given the raging Dublin winds of earlier – a most appropriate choice. Level Two: each of the 154 song lyrics presented are accompanied by an array of fascinating memorabilia – hand writing lyrics, orchestral charts and logs, original diary entries all woven in with a quite stunning selection of photos – many of them new to me and for a man with countless Beatles books on the shelf that is some feat. Early on stage Beatles shots, candid Abbey Road studio images, relaxed shots of Paul and Linda on their Scottish farm retreat and many more –for example: want to see the actual moment Paul began writing Two Of Us which they were on a drive into the country ? It’s all here. 600 images in total drawn from his own personal archives. Dec was amazed that an artist of Robert’s stature was playing in Wexford – previously he could recall few big names appearing there other than David Gray and The Boomtown Rats at the Opera House. And what a 93 minute experience it is. It sounds incredible – so warm and precise, the instrumentation so well defined. Giles Martin has made a great iconic work even greater… 50 years on there are still new revelations in to be heard in this work of genius…