While Led Zeppelin fans were busy digging up their favorite old T-shirts and nostalgia-dusted tour photos in the months leading up to the band’s 50th anniversary this year, Tim Fraser-Harding’s team at Warner Music Group was drawing up a battle plan. As Warner Music Group’s president of global catalog of …
Read More »'Stairway to Heaven' Recording Console Heads to Auction
The recording console used during the making of Led Zeppelin‘s IV – including “Stairway to Heaven” – and Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Catch a Fire will hit the auction block in December. The HeliosCentric console is actually an “amalgamation” of two separate Helios consoles – Island Records’ Basing Street …
Read More »Flashback: Led Zeppelin Rehearse 'Black Dog' in 2007
Led Zeppelin’s 2007 concert at London’s 02 Arena wasn’t their first reunion since drummer John Bonham died in 1980. The surviving members played a sloppy set at Live Aid in 1985 and a slightly better one at the Atlantic Records 40th anniversary bash three years later. The lucky guests at …
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