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This is Cult.

Youth News editor, Scott Schuster.

Good evening. It really was the biggest crowd

ever assembled for a single performance

in one place, in the entire history of the world.

It was tonight and it was in Tampa.

The name of the group... Led Zeppelin.

They've been around for years.

Popular with the acid-rock crowd,

big on album sales.

Tonight they broke the world record set by The Beatles,

and Channel 13's John Jones watched what happened.

Led Zeppelin played in Atlanta

on the first stop of a nationwide tour,

selling out there 49,239.

That even beat The Beatles record.

When a rock group attains a stature such as Led Zeppelin,

they travel with their own jet.

Waiting at the airport,

two limousines and a police escort.

Just 40 minutes to showtime,

Led Zeppelin arrives here at Tampa Air Center

at the Tampa International Airport.

I'm pleased to say that one of the group's four members

has my same name, that's John Paul Jones

and he's their bass player.

Jimmy Page is the lead guitarist.

Robert Plant, the lead singer,

he's the one with long, curly hair.

And John Bonham is the drummer.

If you were at Tampa Stadium tonight or anywhere nereby,

that's the sort of thing you saw and heard.

Good evening!

Well, thank you...

for...

thousands and thousands of emotions

that we've been going through

for the last six weeks together,

and finally get to this point,

for Ahmet, to bring Jason in...

and the double-bass drum pedal.

This is one we've...

This is a first adventure with this song

in public.

In...

1935, Robert Johnson

recorded a song called Terraplane Blues.

It's appeared in a thousand

different guises since.

Maybe Johnson got it from somewhere else.

I'm sure he did. Everybody nicks it.

This is a kind of

the Led Zeppelin Terraplane Blues,

it's called "Trampled Under Foot".

Okay, so, Terraplane Blues...

Robert Johnson, 1936.

This next song, it's been immortalized by

The Staple Singers,

more recently by The Blind Boys from Alabama.

I think we must have heard this from...

We were in a church somewhere in Mississippi.

Written in about 1932...

when Blind Willie Johnson was just...

just before he had his first shot.

The piano, John Paul Jones.

It's quite...

It's quite peculiar to imagine,

I don't know how many songs we recorded together,

but to think about creating

a dynamic evening,

choosing something from ten different albums,

there are certain songs that

have to be there, and...

And this is one of them.

Guitar, Jimmy Page.

Hey Ahmet,

we did it!

Jason Bonham, drums. Come on!

Spectacular.

Now, Jason, has...

I remember...

I can't really remember how long ago it was, but Jason was like this big.

His mom, his dad...

used to sing.

They were the best Jimi Hendrix impersonators

in the whole of Worcestershire.

Pat's got a great voice.

I remember John used to be in a band in Birmingham and used to sing

The Wind Cries Mary about 400 times a night.

That was what how it was.

And Jason is a pretty cool singer too.

So let us feature Jason on vocals here now.

What do you think, Dave?

Thanks a lot, everybody!

Thank you for coming along.

And thank you to everybody who made this show possible.

And all our friends who came along to play

on this show tonight

for the memory of Ahmet Ertegun

in the days when Atlantic Records

was the most magnificent record company on the planet.

Good night.

Hey, thanks so much!

It's really been an amazing night for all of us.

Thank you very much!