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- 27 May 20
Tune in time is 8pm on Saturday night
Led Zepellin have announced the free YouTube streaming of their Celebration Day concert film for three days starting at 8pm on Saturday May 30.
Five years in the making, it documents the band's December 2007 show in London's O2 Arena at which a whole lotta love was shown to Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun who'd died twelve months earlier.
One of the most historic shows of the band's storied career saw over 20 million people apply for tickets. In the end, 18,000 lucky fans secured seats.
Reviewing the film in 2012, Stuart Clark said: "The first thing that strikes you is unlike other rockers of his vintage – Roger Daltrey is one who immediately springs to mind – Robert Plant can still hit the high-notes, and the ones at the guttural bottom end of the spectrum too. Also showing no signs of musical decay – physically it’s a different story – is Jimmy Page whose guitar-playing on ‘Kashmir’ and ‘Trampled Under Foot’, in particular, is peerless.
"For the most part, it sounds less proggy and knowingly epic than it did back in the day, which could have something to do with John Paul Jones’ participation alongside Dave Grohl and Josh Homme in Them Crooked Vultures. The obvious exception is ‘Stairway To Heaven’, one of the most preposterous, overblown and wonderful rock epics of all time. ‘Black Dog’ and ‘Rock And Roll’ are Jason Bonham’s chances to shine, with Bonzo’s not so little boy drumming up as furious a wall of noise as his dad.
"The London O2 concert looks as good as it sounds, with the stage bathed in sumptuous colours, Page and Plant vying to see who can throw the most outrageous shapes and director Dick Carruthers understanding that when the performances are this good you can be sparing with the special effects. Celebration Day is the perfect full-stop on a career that really does now seem to have ended."
We suspect that nothing has changed in the interim...