Artist: LED ZEPPELIN
Album: DVD (2DVD BOX)

Release date: 2003
EAN/UPS: 0603497019823
Media type: DVD

Exclamations of religious awe are in order. Legendary and long sought-after, this live Led Zeppelin collection is nothing less than the rock music equivalent of the Holy Grail. Quite simply, this is what all the fuss was about.

Given that they were the biggest band in the world, Zeppelin were notoriously camera-shy in their heyday. Their official filmic legacy until now has been just the fascinating but flawed The Song Remains the Same. While this new set presents some previously unseen footage from the same 1973 Madison Square Garden gigs, its real wonders lie in the earlier (1970) Royal Albert Hall footage and the later Earls Court (1975) and Knebworth (1979) concerts. Everything here looks and sounds new-minted, thanks to painstaking restoration and remastering of both audio and visual sources, a Herculean labor of love on the part of co-producer Dick Carruthers working hand-in-glove with Jimmy Page. Trawling through thousands of yards of previously unseen film and unheard tape recordings--some with missing visuals, some with missing audio--Page and Carruthers have chosen only the best possible footage available. They were also at pains to make the segments segue seamlessly so that the viewer is treated to what feels like a continuous concert--just sample the transition from a grainy Super 8 "Immigrant Song" (Sydney, 1972) to "Black Dog" at MSG.

Highlights? It's not hyperbole to say that every powerhouse minute of this collection (some 230 minutes of concert footage plus another hour and a half of extra DVD material) is a rare musical and visual treat. But hearing Page's violin bow work on "Dazed and Confused" in DTS or Dolby 5.1 is an experience not soon forgotten.

TRACKLIST DVD ONE:

-Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1970-
We're Gonna Groove
Can't Quit You Baby
Dazed and Conused
White Summer
What Is and What Shoud Never Be
How Many More Times
Moby Dick
Whole Lotta Love
Communication Breakdown
C'mon Everybody
Somethnig Else
Bring It On Home

-Extras-
Communication Breakdown Promo
Danmarks Radio
Supershow
Tous En Scene

TRACKLIST DVD TWO:

Immigrand Song - 1972

-Madison Square Garden 1973-
Black Dog
Misty Mountain Hop
Since I've Been Loving You
The Ocean

Earls Court - 1975
Going to California
That's The Way
Born Yr Aur Stomp
In My Time Of Dying
Trampled Underfoot
Stairway to Heaven

Knebwoth - 1979:
Rock and Roll
Nobody's Fault But Mine
Sick Again
Achilles Last Stand
In The Evening
Kashmir
Whole Lotta Love

-Extras-
NYC Press Conference
Down Under
The Old Grey Whistle Test
Promos

LINE-UP:

Robert Plant (vocals)
Jimmy Page (guitar)
John Paul Jones (bass)
John Bonham (drums)