11 May 2025
One of the rarest rock t-shirts ever was sold for $10,000 (£6096.00) on 11 May 2011 on eBay. The largest sum ever paid for a vintage t-shirt. A 1979 Led Zeppelin one connected with their 2 enormous shows, 4th and 11th August, at Knebworth, England.
WHOLE LOTTA T-SHIRT
15 March 2025
Black-out, Robert?
24 February 2025
Today 50 years ago, on 24 February 1975, heavy rock titans LED ZEPPELIN released their masterpiece PHYSICAL GRAFFITI. It was their 6th LP, a double one, probably their best ever. It went straight to the top spot in both the UK and the US.
It was a multi-faceted work, covering multiple genres. Hard rock (‘Custard Pie’, ‘The Rover’, ‘The Wanton Song’, ‘Sick Again’, ‘Houses Of The Holy‘), eastern-influenced bombast (‘Kashmir’), progressive rock (‘In The Light’), rip-roaring funk ( ‘Boogie With Stu’, ‘Black Country Woman’) acoustic songs (‘Then Years Gone), a love ballad ( ‘Ten Years Gone‘), blues electricity (‘In My Time Of Dying‘), soft reverie (‘Down By The Side’) and a country ripper (‘Night Flight‘).
The two five-storey buildings photographed for the album
cover are located at 96 and 98 St. Mark’s Place in New York City.
Rolling Stone said: “Led Zeppelin’s Tommy, Beggar’s Banquet and Sgt. Pepper
rolled into one: Physical Graffiti is Led Zeppelin’s bid for artistic respectability”.
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23 December 2024
Artist: BOB DYLAN
Album: Blood On The Tracks
His fifteenth and one of his most
memorable LPs.
All Music: “This is hardly nostalgia, this is the sound of an artist returning to his strengths, what feels most familiar, as he accepts a traumatic situation, namely the breakdown of his marriage. This is an album alternately bitter, sorrowful, regretful, and peaceful, easily the closest he ever came to wearing his emotions on his sleeve.”
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Band: FLEETWOOD MAC
Album: Fleetwood Mac
Their 10th.
Pitchfork said: “Though far from their debut, the band’s 1975 self-titled album felt like a debut: a pop-rock statement and the unexpected intersection of two parallel spheres that offered something genuinely new.”
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Artist: NEIL YOUNG
Album: Tonight’s The Night
His sixth LP.
The record was dedicated to Danny Whitten, guitarist of Crazy Horse,
who wrote the song ‘I Don’t Want To Talk About It’ made famous by Rod
Stewart.
Rolling Stone wrote: “Tonight’s the Night finds Neil Young on his knees at the top of the heap, struggling to get back to his feet… Crying over the death of his real and imagined friends, Neil Young seems at once heroic and mock heroic, brave and absurd. Like the best of both, he leaves us as he found us, ravaged but rocking.”
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Artist: PATTI SMITH
Album: Horses
Her stunning debut.
Rolling Stone wrote: “Patti Smith’s debut album was a declaration of committed mutiny,
a statement of faith in the transfigurative powers of rock & roll. Horses made her the queen
of punk before it even really existed, but Smith cared more for the poetry in rock.”
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Band: PINK FLOYD
Album: Wish You Were Here
9th longplayer, dedicated to the late
flamboyant co-founder Syd Barrett.
The Village Voice wrote: “The music is not only simple and attractive, with the synthesizer used mostly for texture and the guitar breaks for comment, but it actually achieves some of
he symphonic dignity (and cross-referencing) that The Dark Side of the Moon simulated so ponderously.”
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Band: LED ZEPPELIN
Album: Physical Graffiti
Zep‘s 6th, a double one.
Billboard wrote: “The LP is a tour de force through a number of musical
styles, from straight rock to blues to folky acoustic to orchestral sounds.”
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Band: NEU!
Album: Neu!
3rd one.
AllMusic: “This is music not only for traveling, from one place to the
next, but also for disappearance into the ether at a steady pace.”
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Artist: BRIAN ENO
Album: Another Green World
His third.
Pitchfork: “Brian Eno has done everything from producing huge pop stars to creating tiny art installations to touring with rock bands to inventing ambient music. Another Green World remains his definitive album.”
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Band: QUEEN
Album: A Night At The Opera
Their majestic 4th.
MOJO wrote: “An imperial extravaganza, a cornucopia. A band of hungrily
competitive individualists on a big roll of friendship and delight.”
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Artist: DAVID BOWIE
Album: Young Americans
9th longplayer.
Rolling Stone: “The music works best when Bowie combines his renewed interest in soul
with his knowledge of English pop, rather than opting entirely for one or the other.”
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Reveries for the laziest day of the week
16 June 2024
Led Zep hero ROBERT PLANT and American bluegrass-country and fiddler artist ALISON KRAUSS worked together for the first time on their collaborative album Raisng Sand from 2007. Three years ago they released a 2nd one, titled Raise The Roof.
They toured in between and are right now playing shows again in Northern America.
For the occasion, they recorded a live version of WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS, which
is part of their live set from 2007 on.
It’s a song from 1929 performed for the first time
by Mephis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy.
It was covered multiple times afterward, and it was actually Led Zeppelin who
made the song famous with their 1971 cover that was part of Led Zeppelin IV.
ROBERT & ALISON
LED ZEP
KANSAS JOE McCOY & MEMPHIS MINNIE
Great concert posters from the past
LED ZEPPELIN
JOE WALSH
THE PRETTY THINGS
23/24 August 1975
Oakland Stadium, CA
– LED ZEP –
– JOE WALSH –
– THE PRETTY THINGS –
WHOLE LOTTA LOVE
19 December 2023
Two guitar heroes.
23 October 2023
Led Zeppelin‘s voice/face ROBERT PLANT, aged 75 now, sung their mythical
1971 classic STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN (more than 880 billion streams on Spotify),
2 days ago.
The last time was at the one-off Led Zeppelin
reunion show at London’s O2 Arena in 2007.
It happened at the benefit show of Duran Duran‘s guitarist
Andy Taylor’ who fights cancer, Soho Farmhouse in Oxfordshire.
Watch/listen.
10 October 2023
Street punks Angelic Upstarts fronted by long-haired Plant? That would have been weird.
(Image on top: cover of Plant’s solo album ‘Carry Fire’)