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 - Coda - 1st - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £50.00, $63.00, €60.50 (New Item) (arrived 25-Feb-2025 17:00)on February 25, 2025 at 11:27 pm
LED ZEPPELIN Coda (1982 UK first press 8-track LP with 'Manufactured in the UK' on the labels, comprising a collection of unused tracks from various sessions during their twelve-year career. Comes housed in the original textured & embossed gatefold sleeve complete with the album credits inner. The sleeve & vinyl are in Excellent condition minimal signs of wear and just light hairlines scuffs to show play A0051)
- Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy - German - vinyl LP - £25.00, $31.50, €30.25 (New Item) (arrived 25-Feb-2025 16:05)on February 25, 2025 at 11:27 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, 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
- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III - 1st - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £195.00, $245.70, €235.95 (New Item) (arrived 24-Feb-2025 17:00)on February 25, 2025 at 11:27 pm
LED ZEPPELIN Led Zeppelin III (Rare 1970 UK first press 10-track stereo vinyl LP, with the sought after Peter Grant label credit below the album title & 'Do What Thou Wilt'/ 'So Mote It Be' hand-scratched into the run-outs. Comes housed in theoriginal die-cut laminated gatefold picture sleeve with top & bottom opening rotating wheel [later issues discarded this]. The sleeve is graded VG [with some 'crinkling' to the laminate, mainly to the back] & the rotating wheel is in full working order; there is also some discolouring to the edges and a very small area of paper loss to the interior pocket. The vinyl has been professionally cleaned & grades VG/VG+ with several light paper scuffs & hairlines either side which have little affect on play)
- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II - 2nd - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £95.00, $119.70, €114.95 (New Item) (arrived 24-Feb-2025 17:00)on February 25, 2025 at 11:27 pm
LED ZEPPELIN Led Zeppelin II (Rare 1969 UK second issue 9-track LP on the plum & red Atlantic label which lists The Lemon Song on both sleeve & labels where later issues list it as Killing Floor, light brown gatefold picture sleeve)See 'More Info' ... #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV - 4th - Crossed out B - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £125.00, $157.50, €151.25 (New Item) (arrived 25-Feb-2025 09:04)on February 25, 2025 at 11:27 pm
LED ZEPPELIN Led Zeppelin IV (1971 UK fourth issue 8-track vinyl LP on the plum & red label with band name at the top & Jimmy Page producer credit at the bottom, without the Peter Grant credit but with 'Kinney Music Ltd./Superhype publishing' credits. This copy has A/3 & B/4 matrices with the crossed out B at the end of the A Side Matrix, housed in a gatefold picture sleeve with extrnal flipback style lyric inner)Please see below for details on condition.. #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
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