Previously unseen footage of Led Zeppelin has been unearthed after sitting in a drawer for 45 years. You can watch it below.
The 13-minutes of video was shot on 8mm film during the legendary band’s show at the Falkoner Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 1979. This was the second date of two warm-up gigs ahead of their final UK dates at Knebworth the following month.
Another footage resurfaced last July (2024) in Vienna was online. "It's very nice to be here in Vienna, you've even got some good groupies," says Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant on stage in Vienna, Austria on March 16, 1973.
The following previously unseen Super 8 film footage, courtesy of Mead Eblan and LedZepFilm, is something of a holy grail... the now earliest known footage from 1973 of Led Zeppelin's legendary show at the Stadthalle in Vienna.
Earlier this year less than a month after seven minutes of footage of Led Zeppelin at the Inglewood Forum in Los Angeles in 1970 found its way onto YouTube, a significant archive of pro-shot, close-up film of the band shot at the Bath Festival the same year has emerged.
Footage from the show in Los Angeles wasn’t seen until earlier this week when seven tantalizing minutes hit YouTube. Check it out rightbelow. (RS)
The footage was shot by a fan named Eddie Vincent, who snuck a Kodak Brownie 8mm camera into the arena. “When my friends and I got to the Forum, I tucked it under my jacket,” Vincent says in the introduction to the video. “There weren’t any problems at the door back in those days. The seats were excellent, first row behind the stage. We were behind John Bonham’s gong, so you couldn’t really see him much, but the sound was great.”
Led Zeppelin played the last of three nights at Madison Square Garden, (1973) New York at the end of a 33-date North American tour.
It was on this day that Led Zeppelin lost around $203,000 in cash after a thief made off with the receipts from the two Madison Square Garden concerts. The theft took place from the safe at The Drake Hotel in New York where the group were staying. Tour manager Richard Cole, who discovered the theft, was arrested as a suspect and questioned by police but was later released.
On July 29, 1973, Led Zeppelin had more than $203,000 in cash stolen from a safety-deposit box at their New York City hotel. Hardly a crippling loss, seeing as how it came near the end of a tour that grossed more than $4 million. But it was almost a sign that the legendary group's career had peaked and more troubles were on the way.
