Rare Recordings Of LED ZEPPELIN's Suffolk Gig Unearthed

March 13, 2010

Jonathan Barnes of Evening Star reports: It was a concert that has gone down in Suffolk music legend — the night one of the biggest rock bands in the world played at a converted swimming pool.

But there are no official recordings of LED ZEPPELIN's gig at St Matthews Baths Hall in Ipswich in November 1971; only a handful of patched-together recordings from a small band of bootleggers.

So rock fan Vic Kemp could not believe his luck when he found a CD at a car boot sale featuring a recording of the whole concert.

"I was going through a stand of CDs at the car boot at Portman Road and the guy who was selling them said 'you might be interested in this,'" he said.

Read the entire article from Evening Star.

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