From Loudersound.
On February 25, 1972, Led Zeppelin played the third show of a six-date Australasian tour, at Western Springs Stadium, a venue in New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland.
Standing near the front was 20-year-old photographer Lloyd Godman, armed with an 8mm movie camera, who managed to capture some footage of the band in full flow. He then consigned the film to his shed, where it lay undisturbed for the best part of half a century.
“I knew I had this roll of film in the shed so I sent it off to get digitised,” Godman tells the New Zealand Herald. “I knew there was band stuff on it but I didn’t know what it was. It came back and there was the Zeppelin film.”
The five minutes of film may be quite murky, but a Zeppelin archivist in the US was able to synch the footage to sound recordings from the event, and the results were premiered yesterday on the LedZepFilm YouTube channel.
Among the snippets of tracks played in the film are Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, Dazed And Confused, Rock And Roll and Whole Lotta Love.
“[My reaction was] really one of joy,” says Godman, “because, of the still photographs I took, I only ended up with six shots, which were really the rejects because the promoter had picked through the best of them and they just disappeared. So finding this was like finding gold really.”
He continues: “It’s really timeless music, some of that stuff. It’s so powerful and I think the combination of musicians that came together to form the group – it was just like a giant cyclone.
“The way a cyclone’s formed is, you know, all the energy was there – it just came together and it just formed into this amazing vortex that not only carried them along but carried everybody else along as well.”
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LED ZEPPELIN Led Zeppelin III (80s German issue of the 1970 10-track LP on the orange & green Atlantic label with 'GEMA/BIEM' box logo to the left of the spindle, housed in a glossy gatefold sleeve with die-cut rotating wheel design & 'Atlantic Deluxe' in light blue. The sleeve shows minimal wear & the vinyl looks barely played ATL50002)
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LED ZEPPELIN Physical Graffiti (1975 UK first issue 15-track double vinyl LP, with NO Warner logo on the perimeter label text, wonderful die-cut picture sleeve with thick card inners & card tracklisting insert SSK89400) See 'More Info' .. #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
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LED ZEPPELIN The Song Remains The Same (1976 UK first issue 9-track double live LP, on the Swan Song label printed with the publishing credits below the catalogue number & stereo on the left all in small text. Comes housed in the first press textured & embossed gatefold picture sleeve with integral booklet & plain black inners which display light wear to the opening edges. The packaging is Excellent with some minor cosmetic ageing & a little edge wear scuffing, with the booklet intact. The vinyl is Excellent with light signs of play SSK89402)
- Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti - 1st - VG - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £125.00, $156.25, €145.00 (New Item) (arrived 24-Apr-2024 11:54)on May 8, 2024 at 8:27 pm
LED ZEPPELIN Physical Graffiti (Rare 1975 UK first press 15-track double LP, one of the band's most diverse & challenging records, featuring household classics like Kashmir & lesser played gems such as The Wanton Song, complete with card inners & thick card tracklisting insert, die-cut picture sleeve with red spine text SSK89400)See 'more info' for condition details... #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy - German - vinyl LP - £25.00, $31.25, €29.00 (New Item) (arrived 24-Apr-2024 13:46)on May 8, 2024 at 8:27 pm
LED ZEPPELIN Houses Of The Holy (1980s German issue of the 1973 8-track vinyl LP on the green & orange Atlantic label, glossy gatefold picture sleeve with textured thick card lyric inner. The labels and inner both have the catalogue number printed as 'ATL 50 014', whilst the sleeve has nothing printed. The sleeve displays only a little light general ageing, with some edge/spinewear, whilst the inner shows little signs of age with some light foxing but no splits or rips. The labels remains very clean and the vinyl shows a few light cosmetic scuffs not affecting play, an Excellent example ATL50014) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
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