Get the Led Out - Ep2538 wk of 15sep

'Get The Led Out' Explores The Incredible History Of The Rock Band Led Zeppelin!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, this is Carol Miller. Welcome to our Get the
Letout calendar. On September fifteenth, nineteen sixty eight, day three
of the International Flower Blossom Festival unfolded in Sweden at
Lisburg Amusement Park. The evening's musical performers were the pop
group Y Oddbirds. Three newcomers to the group were John

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Paul Jones, John Bonham and Robert Plant. While Jimmy Page
was a two year veteran of the Oddbirds. Before they
landed on a new identity involving a crashing and burning Zeppelin,
they were already performing a song called Flames. It was
originally by Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera. Robert started singing it
again around two thousand, fifty five years ago. On September sixteenth,

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nineteen seventy, the BBC's evening News program Nationwide welcomed twenty
two year olds John Bonham and Robert Plant. They sat
down with their elder news presenter, Bob Wellings. He was
thirty six and couldn't get into either led Zeppelin album, being.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Able to whistle the tune, being able to hum the
tune as you go away, I don't think I could
hun any of your stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
No, but there's already a single act whole lot of
love and orchestra playing it, which is quite interesting. Really.
The flute place what the lead vocal would did.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Within a matter of weeks, the BBC's weekly musical variety
show Top of the Pops made its theme tune exactly
what John Bonham mentioned. It's been an enduring theme tune
throughout the programs, still ongoing sixty years run fifty years ago.
On September seventeenth, nineteen seventy five, the Melody Maker once
again presented the magazine's poll awards. Led Zeppelin revoted the

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best UK group for a fifth year in a row.
The awards ceremony had moved locations from the Savoy Hotel
in Westminster to the Carlton Tower Hotel in Knightsbridge. A
rock music photographer in the making accompanied Jimmy Page his
four year old daughter Scarlett. The collective lot of awards
for Swansong Records included England's top female vocalist, Maggie Bell.

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Her next record was for Swansong and Jimmy assisted her
with guitar work he says evokes quote shades of blue
fifty five years ago. On September eighteenth, nineteen seventy, led

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Zeppelin held a press conference in New York. They expected
to be really excited over success back home, but then
everybody's attention shifted to the fact that Jimmy Hendrix had
just died. Hendrix never met Jimmy Page, but some of
their guitars were reunited. Hendrix played and decorated a flying
V electric guitar and named it Love Drops. It was

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displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts twenty nineteen exhibition
Play It Loud Instruments of Rock. Jimmy Page contributed several
guitars for that exhibition, but an outside of Visionado donated
a less pulse standard that Jimmy used at a nineteen
sixties recording session. Ex Rolling Stones member Mick Taylor has

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since come forward claiming to be the guitar's rightful owner
fifty five years ago. On September nineteenth, nineteen seventy, led
Zeppelin played sold out afternoon and evening shows at New
York's Madison Square Garden, wrapping up with their last live
version of How Many More Times For a year or so.

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One backstage visitor was bassist Noel Redding. Formerly of the
Jimmy Hendricks Experience. Noel evidently turned to led Zeppelin for
solace immediately after Hendricks's passing, As reported in the British
publication Record Mirror. Another musician vuying for backstage access was
the singer Paul Jones, formerly of the band Manfred Mann.

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Paul Jones was seen chatting with Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
This is Carol Miller.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Thanks for Getting the Letout.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Check back next week for another Get the Letout Calendar podcast.