Led Zeppelin United Kingdom and Scandinavian Tour 1969

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North America Spring 1969

Poster for Led Zeppelin's concert at Stockholm, used to help promote its 1969 tour of the U.K. and Scandinavia

Concert tour by Led Zeppelin
Locations United Kingdom, Scandinavia
Start date March 1, 1969
End date April 17, 1969
Legs 1
Shows 28
Led Zeppelin tour chronology
North America 1968/1969
United Kingdom & Scandinavia 1969
North America Spring 1969

Led Zeppelin's 1969 tour of the United Kingdom and Scandinavia was a concert tour of the United Kingdom and Scandinavia by the English rock band. The tour commenced on March 1 and concluded on April 17, 1969.

During this tour, Led Zeppelin made a number of live television appearances, including one date in Denmark on 17 March, a session at BBC TV studios on March 21 and a session at Staines on March 25, the last for the filming of the Supershow. These early filmed sessions were part of manager Peter Grant's strategy to build public awareness of the group. However, his dissatisfaction with the medium (particularly its inferior audio quality), would soon lead him to make the band unavailable for television again.[1]

Led Zeppelin's debut album was belatedly released in the United Kingdom part-way through this tour, in late March 1969.[1]

Contents

[edit] Tour set list

The fairly typical set list for the tour was:

  1. "Train Kept A-Rollin' " (Bradshaw, Kay, Mann)
  2. "I Can't Quit You Baby" (Dixon)
  3. "As Long As I Have You" (Mimms)
  4. "Dazed and Confused" (Page)
  5. "You Shook Me" (Dixon, Lenoir)
  6. "White Summer"/"Black Mountain Side" (Page)
  7. "Pat's Delight" (Bonham)
  8. "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (Bredon, Page, Plant)
  9. "How Many More Times" (Bonham, Jones, Page)

There were some set list substitutions, variations, and order switches during the tour.

[edit] Tour dates

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Lewis, Dave and Pallett, Simon (1997) Led Zeppelin: The Concert File, London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-5307-4, p. 20.

[edit] Sources

  • Lewis, Dave and Pallett, Simon (1997) Led Zeppelin: The Concert File, London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-5307-4.