Led Zeppelin
Celebration Day

THE REVIEW

As you well know, in the history of rock music, there have essentially been two truly fundamental bands: Queen and Pink Floyd.

Led Zeppelin were born from the meeting of four British boys, themselves born from the union of a sperm and an egg cell. Arriving in the fallopian tubes, the sperm... let's leave it there, I don't want to bore you with the usual sex talk.

After a career that can rightly be described as satisfactory, Led Zeppelin disbanded. The main cause of the breakup was the premature death of drummer John Bonham, since then also known as bonhanima.

After about fifty years (give or take a minute) of reflection, the remaining crew members (as you well know, the zeppelins were Nigerian attack bombers) decided that the time was ripe to replace the drummer. The choice fell on Janon Bonham, already known to many for being his father's son.

Once the band was back together, the first thing to do was a great comeback celebration concert.

Initially, the location chosen for the event was the u2 arena in Leeds, but the esoteric guitarist skilled in hitchhiking and smuggling bows, in the meantime, decided entirely on his own that after about fifty years, the time was ripe to fracture a finger. Therefore, the concert was postponed for another nine months, and by then, the u2 arena was no longer available.

They then moved to the lesser-known and less spacious 02 arena in London, which, however, was festively decorated for the occasion with lots of colorful balloons by it personally.

Live albums are a strange category; some really seem played live, but in reality, as you well know, they are all re-recorded in the studio, with no exceptions, except for the bootlegs, which, however, have terrible audio and are the death of music.

If an illegal car park attendant asks me for two euros and I tell him my car is worth much less, do you think he'd get mad? Max Pezzalo would say yes. What happened to Max Vezzali? Don't you think that with him, the figure of the existential songwriter has definitively disappeared? Who cares about the losers now? I believe that Mix Pezzali should be given due credit for singing about misfortune better than anyone else.

But let's get to the point: this record is beautiful, a practically perfect concert without any hitch.

Page plays as always very cleanly and precisely, doesn't miss a note, crystal clear. Robert Plant confirms himself a true vocal ace, reproducing all the songs in the same exact original keys and with a vocal tone that in maturity has even improved, becoming the best possible middle ground between Amanda Lear and David Beckham. John Paul Jones performs hypnotic bass lines and plays all kinds of electronic keyboards.

Unfortunately, a sore point is the new drummer who clearly shows little experience and an insecure technique. But it must be said that he is very young, the boy will have a chance to redeem himself.

The resources deployed were impressive, with about 400 cameras of all kinds, the show was filmed from every angle, there is even an on board cam inside the solo of Stairway to Heaven.

Did you know that if I play "Immigrant Song" for my parakeet, he dies? I also died as a child, now it's better, but it's an experience I wouldn't wish on anyone.

Anyway, "Immigrant Song" is not here. But there's "Trampled Underfoot", which we could define as a record-breaking track, indeed it is the combination of as many as three simultaneous plagiarisms: "Terraplane Blues", "Long Train Running," and "Superstition".

It is said that there are two billion people in the world who still don't know they have been copied by Led Zeppelin, and among them, you could be too!

Once everything was over, Jim Page decided that a record and a related video needed to be released immediately without wasting time, because you strike while the iron is hot.

Thus, racing against the clock, only 14 years after the concert, CDs, LPs, DVDs, Blu-rays, VHS, acetate, cardboard, bedside tables, shelves, brackets, and any other type of support you can think of are now available on the market.

The success was enormous, and now finally a lot of kids from the new generations know that the real Led Zeppelin are back. We're in for a treat.