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 - Houses Of The Holy: Deluxe - 180gm Vinyl - German - 2-LP vinyl set - £49.99, $62.99, €60.49 (New Item) (arrived 17-Dec-2024 18:00)on December 21, 2024 at 8:06 pm
LED ZEPPELIN Houses Of The Holy (2014 German manufactured UK/EU 15-track double LP reissue of their landmark 1972 fifth studio album, newly remastered by guitarist & producer Jimmy Page & pressed on 180gram Heavyweight Vinyl; expanded to include previously unreleased companion audio including studio outtakes, rough mixes & backing tracks. Housed in a tri-fold picture sleeve with negative artwork & Swansong hologram on the back plus textured lyric insert. This copy remains innear as new condition) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same - 1st - EX - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £95.00, $119.70, €114.95 (New Item) (arrived 14-Dec-2024 16:24)on December 21, 2024 at 8:06 pm
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/small tear to the opening edges. The packaging is Excellent with some minor cosmetic aging & a little scuffing to the front, with the booklet intact. The vinyl is Excellent with light signs of play SSK89402)
- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin DVD - UK - DVD - £15.00, $18.90, €18.15 (New Item) (arrived 11-Dec-2024 18:00)on December 21, 2024 at 8:06 pm
LED ZEPPELIN Led Zeppelin DVD (2003 UK two-disc Regions 2-6 PAL DVD set, featuring remixed & remastered live performances from the Royal Albert Hall, Madison Square Garden, Earls Court and Knebworth, along with the previously unreleased TV appearances, interviews & behind the scenes footage. Complete with two booklets, the discs are nestled within four-panel fold-out glossy digipak picture sleeve complete with a hype stickered slipcase and remains in excellent condition)
- Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy - French - vinyl LP - £75.00, $94.50, €90.75 (New Item) (arrived 12-Dec-2024 09:43)on December 21, 2024 at 8:06 pm
LED ZEPPELIN Houses Of The Holy (Rare 1973 French first press 8-track LP on a light plum & red Atlantic label with 'House of the holy' album title misprint, housed in a gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve is Excellent with minimal shelf wear &the vinyl is clean with very little play) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II - 5th - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £30.00, $37.80, €36.30 (New Item) (arrived 12-Dec-2024 10:56)on December 21, 2024 at 8:06 pm
LED ZEPPELIN Led Zeppelin II (70s UK fifth issue of the 1969 9-track stereo LP on a green & orange Atlantic label, with 'Made in UK' at centre left, 'The Lemon Song' label & sleeve credit, dark brown gatefold picture sleeve printed by Gothic Print Finishers Ltd. The sleeve displays some noticable edge and spineware with scuffing whilst the vinyl is in'Excellent' condition with little sign of play K40037) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
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