Photos: Legendary rock band Led Zeppelin in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥, 1972
The legendary band performed at the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Community Center in June 1972.Â
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Lead singer Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin at the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Community Center on June 28, 1972. Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page collaborated on most of the band's most famous songs.
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Lead signer and heart throb Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin performs at the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Community Center on June 28, 1972. Plant's son Karac died at age 5, which prompted Plant to write "All My Love," one of the band's notable songs, in tribute.
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Jimmy Page, right, lead guitar and the rock band Led Zeppelin perform at the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Community Center on June 28, 1972. Page appeared on a BBC talent show in 1957 and said he wanted to do biological research and cure cancer. His interests later turned to art and music.
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Bassist John Paul Jones of the rock band Led Zeppelin performs at the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Community Center on June 28, 1972. Jones bought his first bass guitar at age 14 and was playing in a band by age 15. He was an accomplished studio musician, working with the Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck, Cat Stevens and Rod Stewart, before joining Led Zeppelin.
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Lead singer Robert Plant of the rock band Led Zeppelin performs at the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Community Center on June 28, 1972. Jimmy Page recruited Plant for the "New Yardbirds" to finish tour dates for Page's original band, the Yardbirds.
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A reported 9,000 fans watched Led Zeppelin perform at the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Community Center on June 28, 1972. By 1979, the band was performing for crowds of 100,000 at major cities around the world.
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Jimmy Page plays lead guitrar for Led Zeppelin during a concert at the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Community Center on June 28, 1972. Page switched from bass to lead guitar while with The Yardbirds in the late 60s.
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Lead singer Robert Plant of the rock band Led Zeppelin performs at the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Community Center on June 28, 1972. Plant formed the Honeydrippers after the band broke-up in 1980, following the death of drummer John Bonham.
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Lead singer Robert Plant faces Jimmy Page, John Bonham and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin at the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Community Center on June 28, 1972. The band had just released Led Zeppelin IV, which featured "Stairway to Heaven." The album sold nearly 37 million copes worldwide.
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