Led Zeppelin United Kingdom Tour 1970

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United Kingdom 1970
Tour by Led Zeppelin
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Tour Programme for Led Zeppelin's Usher Hall gig in Edinburgh, Scotland, in February 1970.
Location
  • England
  • Scotland
Associated album Led Zeppelin II
Start date7 January 1970
End date17 February 1970
No. of shows8
Led Zeppelin concert chronology

Led Zeppelin's 1970 United Kingdom Tour was a concert tour of the United Kingdom by the English rock band. The tour commenced on 7 January and concluded on 17 February 1970.

Contents

This tour is arguably best known for the band's performance at the Royal Albert Hall on 9 January. [1] According to Led Zeppelin guitarist, Jimmy Page, the Royal Albert hall was "at the time the largest and most prestigious gig in London." [2] In 1970, Led Zeppelin commissioned the British director and Producer of BBC's In Concert at the time, Stanley Dorfman, to film Led Zeppelin Live At The Royal Albert Hall, [3] during which Dorfman and the two cameramen he hired, Peter Whitehead and an assistant used handheld Bolex cameras to capture the concert in 16mm film. [4] Virtually all the footage from the Royal Albert Hall concert was featured as Disk One of Led Zeppelin DVD in 2003. The audio portions were digitally remixed for stereo and 5.1 surround mixes. Audio recordings of two songs from the concert, "We're Gonna Groove" and "I Can't Quit You Baby", had earlier been released on the 1982 album Coda. In 2022, Led Zeppelin released portions of 1970 Royal Albert Hall footage as three official music videos, Dazed and Confused (Live at The Royal Albert Hall 1970), How Many More Times (Live at The Royal Albert Hall 1970), and What Is and What Should Never Be (Live at The Royal Albert Hall 1970). [5]

One concert from this tour, at Edinburgh on 7 February, was postponed for 10 days owing to vocalist Robert Plant suffering a minor car accident, in which he sustained some facial injuries. [6] [7]

For all but one of these concerts, the band did not use any supporting act, although Barclay James Harvest did support them at the Edinburgh Usher Hall gig on 17 February. This would be a trend to continue on subsequent Led Zeppelin concert tours. [6]

Tour set list

The fairly typical set list for the tour was:

  1. "We're Gonna Groove" (King, Bethea)
  2. "I Can't Quit You Baby" (Dixon)
  3. "Dazed and Confused" (Page)
  4. "Heartbreaker" (Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant)
  5. "White Summer"/"Black Mountain Side" (Page)
  6. "Since I've Been Loving You" (Page, Plant, Jones)
  7. "Thank You" (Page, Plant)
  8. "What Is and What Should Never Be" (Page, Plant) (9 January only)
  9. "Moby Dick" (Bonham)
  10. "How Many More Times" (Bonham, Jones, Page)

Encores (variations of the following list):

There were some set list substitutions, variations, and order switches during the tour.

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenue
7 January 1970 Birmingham England Birmingham Town Hall
8 January 1970 Bristol Colston Hall
9 January 1970 London Royal Albert Hall
13 January 1970 Portsmouth Portsmouth Guildhall
15 January 1970 Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle City Hall
16 January 1970 Sheffield Sheffield City Hall
24 January 1970 Leeds University of Leeds Refectory
17 February 1970 Edinburgh Scotland Usher Hall
rescheduled date; originally scheduled for February 7

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References

  1. ↑ Led Zeppelin official website: concert summary
  2. ↑ Liner notes by Cameron Crowe for The Song Remains the Same , reissued version, 2007.
  3. ↑ Power, Martin (2016). "Chapter 21: The Song Remains The Same". No Quarter: The Three Lives of Jimmy Page. London, UK : Overlook Omnibus. p. 316. ISBN   978-1-4683-1214-0.
  4. ↑ Budd, Christopher (2 August 2018). "Stanley Dorfman: Led Zeppelin at the Albert Hall". SHINDIG! Magazine. Sliverback Publishing. pp. Issue 82. Retrieved 23 June 2018.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  5. ↑ "No ordinary rock concert: Watch Led Zeppelin's 1970 Hall debut". www.royalalberthall.com. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  6. 1 2 Lewis, Dave and Pallett, Simon (1997) Led Zeppelin: The Concert File, London: Omnibus Press. ISBN   0-7119-5307-4, pp. 41-4.
  7. ↑ Led Zeppelin official website: concert summary

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