The Legendary Led Zeppelin Show That Probably Never Happened

Led Zeppelin carried out a present for fewer than 60 individuals on Jan. 20, 1969, at a tiny youth heart in Maryland. Or, possibly and extra doubtless … they did not.

A hardcore group of “attendees” or believers have caught to this story for many years now, however Led Zeppelin’s official web site lists the present – reportedly held in Wheaton, a city of round 50,000 residents close to Washington, D.C. – solely as an “unconfirmed rumour.” The web site notes that street supervisor Richard Cole has no reminiscence of it both.

At the identical time, nobody has ever been in a position to produce {a photograph}, contract, ticket stub, gig poster or every other bodily proof to show that Led Zeppelin did, in actual fact, carry out there.

Still, the native legend has endured. That impressed director Jeff Krulik – co-creator of the immortal Heavy Metal Parking Lot – to assemble the investigative documentary Led Zeppelin Played Here, which was offered in unfinished kind at varied movie festivals.

Krulik invited everybody who stated that they had been on the Zeppelin present to a reunion in 2009. Funnily sufficient, based on a Washington Post report, twice as many individuals confirmed up for this occasion as had supposedly attended the unique live performance.

Of these, solely a couple of half-dozen claimed to have seen the present, and the one proof offered was a pair of battered sneakers apparently worn that evening. Still, the true believers have been undaunted by the dearth of proof.

“They were definitely here,” alleged attendee Anne Marie Pemberton informed the Post. “[Jimmy] Page was over here. John Paul Jones was over there. [Robert] Plant, the showman, was right here. And right behind was John Bonham with his hellacious drum set.”

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