Poster for Led Zeppelin's concert at the University of Surrey (billed as "The New Yardbirds featuring Jimmy Page"), used to help promote its 1968 U.K. tour
Location
England
Associated album
Led Zeppelin
Start date
4 October 1968
End date
20 December 1968
No. of shows
16
Led Zeppelin concert chronology
Scandinavia 1968
United Kingdom 1968
North America 1968/1969
Led Zeppelin's 1968 tour of the United Kingdom was the first concert tour of the United Kingdom by the English rock band. It commenced on 4 October and concluded on 20 December 1968.
For some of these early shows, the band were billed as the "New Yardbirds". Press releases eventually announced that they would make their debut under the name 'Led Zeppelin' on 25 October at the University of Surrey (although posters advertising this concert erroneously continued to bill them as the 'New Yardbirds').[1]
There was very little press reaction to this tour.[2]
The band's second London concert (18 October, billed as 'New Yardbirds'; 9 November, billed as 'Led Zeppelin') at the Roundhouse on 9 November doubled as singer Robert Plant's wedding reception.[3]
Jeff Beck attended the Canterbury show on 13 December. "Things went slightly wrong!" he recalled to Jimmy Page. "Your fucking amp blew up and I went, 'What's up with that, Jim?' And then I realised it was my amp, because my roadie had moonlighted and rented Jimmy my equipment! And he'd changed the impedance on the back so it sounded like a pile of shit! But I could see the potential. It was just amazing – blew the house down, blew everybody away."[4]
^Led Zeppelin official website: concert summary
^Liner notes by Cameron Crowe for The Complete Studio Recordings
^Nigel Williamson, "Good Times...Bad Times", Uncut, May 2005, p. 54.
^Murray, Charles Shaar (August 2004). "The Guv'nors". Mojo. No. 129. p. 74.
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