Good evening. I said good evening. We must start as we mean to go on, an ah, a good rapport is all that makes everything a success. ah We're gonna take you, we're gonna attempt to take you through some of the changes that have been analysed, and critisized, and dig, and hated, of the last six and half years of our um, I suppose we could call it, our relationship. Well it starts with the ultimate dream.

ah We're more than over joyed actually to be able to be allowed back in teh country. ah The equipment that you now see amassed above our heads in precarious positions, took about three weeks to get through customs. They have a little dossier at the customs that think on Led Zeppelin, and nothing to do with personal effects or prison sentances. Mr. Bonham's been in prison for various bodily harm, and things like that. Just equipment, so we're really pleased we're here to be able to play, but to have all of the equipment that we partcipated to give you our best, and without further adu, no no no. Let's not have any of that sort of, we come to play. ah This is a thing off the long, what you might call, long awaited, but they always are long awaited albums. On the magnifficent Swan Song label. Great design picture of Jimmy there. This is a thing called In My Time of Dying.

Thank you very much. Thank you. I'd like to welcome, from Sothesby Sambr Maya, and Bron-Yr-Aur, and we'd better tell you some of the things we've been doing while we've been away. We travelled around a lot, and moved, what we didn;t say, we saw a lot of ups and downs as we came into the New York town. We gathered a lot of experience on our journeys. We hudled them all into little songs. This next one is relative to the fac thtat in the end, the song will always remain the same.

It is the summer of my smiles. Tee hee. Now we're gonna feature, yet again, the, the ever impressive, the only man who wears onions on his shoulders, that I've ever met in my life. The amazing man of keyboards, John Paul Jones. You remember John Paul Jones? One day we'll get that spot light right. So we kept on travelling and we got to places that were dusty and lacked rain, but it had other elements that were quite fitting. Morroco is famous for many things, good moroccan, that is. So this is a song about the wasted wasted wasted lands, and if John's at the keyboards, it's called Kashmir.

Another song about a journey, or rather, a journey that has no end, a rather perilous one, where they give No Quarter.

John Paul Jones grand piano. So when it was all this blurb in the papers, and things about the American show ah, we decided that there were things way way back that we really dig playing and recorded, but never really got into on stage. So we decided to develop, for at least one number in our career, four part harmony. Can you believe that? We can do Bus Stop by the Hollies next time. So before the attmosphere gets too overwhelming because of this great step in yet a new direction for Zeppelin, we're now going to witness the four part harmony on a song called Tangerine.

Six and a half years is a hell of a long time ah, but for Led Zeppelin it;s been a lifetime, and yet a second, you know? And although we've written things, famous things in Bangkok, not just , but we also wrote a lot of things west of Offer Dyke. Offers Dyke is not a chick in New York. We went as far as the Welsh, the truem the Celts. In fact we borrowed George Burrow as far as we could, but he walked too fast, and when we goto Wales, who nearly beat Scotland yesterday, of course, when we got to Wales we wrote songs about California. This song, I think is beginning um, it's really a song about, if you don't mind, thank you very much, it's a song really about the the permanent constant search for any man with a vivid imagination for the Gueniviere or whatever you like to think of, and how the song seems to apply as to just every Rock and Roll group is Going to California. Gueniviere.

Terribly hard, hopefully today it isn't. So we were sitting on a grassy bank that was almost a fairy tale situation looking out across, not a fairy tale, a fairy tale, looking across the um, unspoiled beautiful country side of Duvid, and Powers, and thinking that the M62 coming flying in at any moment and another song came to our attention that goes something like this.

Whether you knew it or not because the spotlights were a bit bezerk Mr. John Bonham was also responsible for vocal harmony then. John Bonham vocal harmony. As Mr. Pither would say, I'm in a pickle, hang on a tic. If you really want to know the problem. I'm too embarrassed to tell you, hang on a bit. I believe the press are here tonight, so I can't tell you. ah If you'd come last night, I got um, my problem we're OK, but tonight I'm gonna sack whichever road manager has burnt the lyrics to the next song. It was a long time ago when we wrote it. This is about a dog with blue eyes.

We are the nights who say Nee! The first gig that we did in Brusselwhen um, our friend came along and talked to us you wouldn't believe I sang the same, I sang one verse of Stairway to Heaven three times. What happens in these moments one can't really tell when you're, and you know that they're are eighty thousand people going, what's it all about? So I'm not going to go into too much spiel tonight cause it's not really a spielly night. We usually leave all of the spielling to our manager Peter Grant over there in the wings, who's just, spotlight on Mr. Grant. A spotlight on Peter Grant on the left of the stage. The man who made it all possible, Peter Grant. And let me tell you, he never likes to be in group pictures. He doesn't like to play soccer with us, but what a manager. What a member of the group. In fact, he should even play guitar.

No spieilling sorry, a very serious banbeen away a long time, got to impress, got that Chris? um It's finally loosening up. ah Right, OK, so a long time ago people wrote songs about sex, and they covered the sexual connotations with a likely symbols of animals, Nee, cars, motor cars, thimping pistons, tooting horns, running boards, shifting gears. Trampled Underfoot.

Swinging from the gallows pole. Ok Chris, this is the number you've been waiting for. Remember that snare drum. It's been my pleasure since the age of puberty, of fifteen, to have very close contact with probably one of the finest rhythm men this side of the Sutter land. In fact, there's rumors that in fact he'd come from the Sutterland. A man with no taste, no manners, no friends. My very best friend. The man who always kicks me when I'm down. Ladies and gentlemen, John Bonham. Moby Dick.

Let's hear it for John Bonham. John Bonham John Bonham. A long time ago, not in Bethlehem, but in Gerrard street ah, Jimmy rented a little room, and after the blue movies we got down and we decided that we should have a little play together. It was all PEter Grant's idea. Anyway, the first thing that we started playing developed what you now know as the first album. It was ah, it was a very fruitful afternoon. We had tunafish sandwiches, just to get in tune with America, and we went through a song that moved us all quite incredibly, without giving you any schmaltz or anything, and this was the song.

Jimmy Page guitar. And it only goes to show. This is a song that came to us in a moment of great peace and tranquility, not only with ourselves, but with ah, everything, everywhere, sitting round the fire. Cups of tea and good vibes and something we hadn't accounted for.

England, it's been very nice to have been with you tonight back in dear Albion. Thank you very much, for your time, and thank you for our pleasure. Good night. Thank you for waiting for us so long.

Thank you very much. Good night. Good night. We'd like to thank the road crew, Showco America, and Dennis Healy for being such a perv. Good night.