Unseen footage of Led Zeppelin’s final show in Denmark from 1979 surfaces online
Thirteen minutes of previously unseen Led Zeppelin footage from 1979 has surfaced online after spending 45 years tucked away in a drawer.
The Super 8 film, shot by Led Zep fan Lennart Ström at Copenhagen’s Falkoner Theatre on July 24, 1979, captures the legendary band at the second of two warm-up shows in Denmark, just weeks before their iconic Knebworth concerts. The performance also marks the group’s last-ever show in the country.
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According to Louder Sound, the footage had been kept in a drawer for over four decades, until Ström revealed the existence of it last summer on the Heart of Markness podcast website.
The video has since been scanned by US company Reel Revival Film and colour-corrected by The Pink Floyd Research Group. It has also been matched with an audio recording from the aforementioned concert.
“We brought the Super 8 camera to test a new film that would work indoors. It was no problem getting the camera in, it was quite small and I think I had it in my trousers on my back,” Ström tells Led Zeppelin News. “Filming wasn’t that often done in those days. They looked more for audio equipment.”
“The gig the night before was, according to the papers, a disaster due to the electric failures that the laser had brought. So there were generators standing in the alley we passed before going in. We didn’t understand why they were there, but I remembered from the army that it was generators. So we were of course concerned about the gig.”
“I have kept this film in a drawer all the years,” he adds. “[I] made a digital copy, not that good as the one you have done, but I cannot find it. [I] showed it to some friends, guitarists who went nuts. And that was the silent version.”
The 13-minute footage – now available on the ledzepfilm YouTube channel – features parts of The Song Remains The Same, Black Dog, Nobody’s Fault But Mine, Over The Hills And Far Away, Misty Mountain Hop, Kashmir, Since I’ve Been Loving You, No Quarter, Hot Dog, Rain Song, Stairway To Heaven, Whole Lotta Love and more.
The new video also comes on the heels of the band’s recently released biopic Becoming Led Zeppelin, which has grossed over $6 million worldwide at the time of writing.
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