13 minutes of beforehand unseen footage of Led Zeppelin taking part in reside has emerged on-line. The movie was shot on the 2000-capacity Falkoner Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 1979, on the second of two warm-up reveals previous to the band’s last UK reveals at Knebworth the next month.
The 8mm movie was initially shot by Led Zeppelin fan Lennart Ström, who revealed the existence of the footage final summer time. Since then, Ström’s footage has been scanned by US firm Reel Revival Movie and colour-corrected by The Pink Floyd Analysis Group, earlier than being matched with an audio recording from the present.
“We introduced the Tremendous 8 digicam to check a brand new movie that may work indoors,” Ström tells LedZepNews. “It was no drawback getting the digicam in, it was fairly small and I believe I had it in my trousers on my again. Filming wasn’t that always accomplished in these days. They appeared extra for audio tools.”
The footage, which Ström stored in a drawer for over 40 years, consists of sections of Track Stays The Identical, Black Canine, No one’s Fault However Mine, Over The Hills And Far Away, Misty Mountain Hop, Since I’ve Been Loving You, No Quarter, Scorching Canine, Rain Track, White Summer season, Kashmir, Trampled Underfoot, Sick Once more, Achilles Final Stand, In The Night, Stairway To Heaven and Complete Lotta Love, in addition to a clip of Jimmy Web page’s guitar solo.
The footage seems within the wake of the well-received official band biopic, Changing into Led Zeppelin, which incorporates movie of Jimmy Web page & Co. performing on the Bathtub Pageant in 1970. That footage had by no means been seen till it was unearthed in a British college movie archive in 2017.
