UK Promoters Reminisce About £100 LED ZEPPELIN Gig From 1969
November 11, 2008, 16 years ago
The following story is courtesy of Peter Tennick Hartlepoolmail.co.uk:
A music promoter has come forward with the proof that one of the world's biggest ever rock bands played a gig in Peterlee (County Durham, England). Brian Stoker and friend David Richards booked rock super group LED ZEPPELIN for just £100 to play at the Argus Butterfly pub in Peterlee on March 23, 1969.
The gig, which came just weeks after they had released their first self-titled album, saw the group play before hundreds of fans ahead of a gig before tens of thousands at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
The group then went on to become one of the most successful rock bands in the world and played a sell out gig earlier this year after reforming to perform at the O2 Arena in London.
Easington Colliery-born Brian, 65, who organised gigs under the Peterlee Jazz Club banner, has unearthed the original flyers for Led Zeppelin gig and a string of other shows that were held at the pub in the late 1960s.
He said: "We booked Led Zeppelin for £100 and they went down a storm. Everyone loved it and I remember me and Dave had a drink with the lads from the group.
"I was talking to guitarist Jimmy Page and asked if he enjoyed it and he said 'yes' and he would come back. I said what are you doing next month and he said they were playing the Hollywood Bowl, so that was the last we saw of them."Read more here.
