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1971 concert tour by Led Zeppelin
United Kingdom Winter 1971
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c5/Led_Zeppelin%27s_Winter_1971_United_Kingdom_Tour.jpg/170px-Led_Zeppelin%27s_Winter_1971_United_Kingdom_Tour.jpg) Poster for Led Zeppelin's concert at the Wembley Empire Pool, used to help promote its Winter 1971 U.K. tour
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Location
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Associated album
| Led Zeppelin IV
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Start date
| 11 November 1971
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End date
| 21 December 1971
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No.
of shows
| 16
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Winter 1971 United Kingdom Tour
was a
concert tour
of the
United Kingdom
by
Led Zeppelin
. The tour ran from 11 November to 21 December 1971, and "confirmed their supremacy in the UK rock marketplace".
[1]
Taking place immediately after the release of the band's fourth album,
Led Zeppelin IV
, all tickets sold out despite going on sale less than a week before the commencement of the tour. Second shows at
Wembley
and at
Manchester
were added after fans queued for up to eighteen hours in order to secure a ticket.
[1]
This tour is particularly notable for the two concerts performed by the band at the
Wembley Empire Pool
,
Wembley Park
, dubbed the "Electric Magic" shows.
[2]
[3]
[4]
These five hour shows included bizarre
vaudeville
circus
acts with
plate spinners
,
trapeze artists
and performing pigs which were dressed in policeman's uniforms.
[5]
The concerts also incorporated supporting acts such as
Stone the Crows
, which was a rare event for Led Zeppelin at this point in their career.
[1]
A colour poster was sold to fans at the concerts for 30p, which is now a rare and highly sought-after collectible. An altered version of the poster was created for a two coloured silk-screen
T-shirt
print in 2010 for an official Led Zeppelin T-shirt.
[6]
This was the first concert tour on which the band visually projected the "four symbols" which adorned (and is a variant title for) their fourth album onto their stage equipment.
Jimmy Page
's "Zoso" symbol was put onto one of his
Marshall amplifiers
,
John Bonham
's three interlinked circles adorned the outer face of his
bass drum
,
John Paul Jones
had his symbol stenciled onto material which was draped across his
Fender Rhodes
keyboard
and
Robert Plant
's feather symbol was painted onto a side speaker PA cabinet. Plant's feather symbol was the only one not used in subsequent
Led Zeppelin concert tours
, and Jones' symbol was removed after the
Japanese Tour
in 1972.
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Tour set list
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edit
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All track written by
Jimmy Page
and
Robert Plant
, except where noted.
The fairly typical
set list
for the tour was:
- "
Immigrant Song
"
- "
Heartbreaker
" (
Bonham
, Page, Plant)
- "
Out on the Tiles
" (intro) (Page, Plant, Bonham) / "
Black Dog
" (Page, Plant,
Jones
)
- "
Since I've Been Loving You
" (Page, Plant, Jones)
- "
Rock and Roll
" (Page, Plant, Jones, Bonham)
- "
Stairway to Heaven
"
- "
Going to California
"
- "
That's the Way
"
- "
Tangerine
" (Page)
- "
Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp
" (Page, Plant, Jones)
- "
Dazed and Confused
" (Page)
- "
What Is and What Should Never Be
"
- "
Celebration Day
" (Jones, Page, Plant)
- "
Moby Dick
" (Bonham) (on November 13, 20, 21, and 23 only)
- "
Whole Lotta Love
" (Bonham,
Dixon
, Jones, Page, Plant)
Encores (variations of the following list):
There were some set list substitutions, variations, and order switches during the tour.
Tour dates
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References
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External links
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Sources
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- Lewis, Dave and Pallett, Simon (1997)
Led Zeppelin: The Concert File
, London: Omnibus Press.
ISBN
0-7119-5307-4
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