The Led Zeppelin News Email - 13/07/25
Unseen California 1973 photos and a whole host of exclusive news
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Unseen 1973 photos are coming to a gallery in Stockholm
Stockholm’s Oak Island Gallery is quickly becoming the go-to place to see unseen photographs of Led Zeppelin.
After the gallery exhibited unseen shots of Led Zeppelin taken by Ed Finnell, it’s now preparing to show off unseen shots of Led Zeppelin in 1973 taken by Craig Wright next month.
Ahead of the launch of an online exhibition of Wright’s work, the gallery generously allowed LedZepNews to publish some of the unseen images online.
The Scandinavians love a long summer, but the gallery staff will be selling prints of Wright’s work once they return next month.
Former Page and Plant manager Bill Curbishley will publish his memoirs
Bill Curbishley, the former manager of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, will publish his memoirs on April 16, we revealed this week.
Curbishley played key roles in both men’s careers, orchestrating the Page and Plant project and also helping to reunite Led Zeppelin for the band’s 2007 reunion performance.
The 320-page book will be titled “To Be Or Not To Be: A Life in Music”.
Newsletter exclusive: Hard Rock buys 800 rare Led Zeppelin slides and 22,000 unused Led Zeppelin tickets
For years we’ve been tracking a collection of rare professional Led Zeppelin photographs that were owned by Globe Entertainment & Media Corporation.
The images of Led Zeppelin on stage and off stage were previously owned by photo agencies Globe Photos and London Features International but ended up in the hands of this new business after the companies collapsed.
Klaus Moeller, the head of Globe Entertainment, amassed a collection of more than 8 million entertainment slides including the rare Led Zeppelin shots. He then tried to figure out how to turn that collection into a business.
“This man wants to sell you a tiny piece of rock history”, read the headline of a 2023 Financial Times article about Moeller and his business.
Complicating things was the fact that merely owning the slides didn’t give Moeller copyright of the images, blocking his ability to simply publish the images online on their own.
Instead, Moeller launched a line of Led Zeppelin NFTs using the images in 2022 and in 2023 launched virtual Led Zeppelin stickers which quickly caught the eye of Led Zeppelin’s lawyers.
So we were intrigued to spot this month that a handful of Moeller’s rare Led Zeppelin slides are listed for sale through auction house Sotheby’s.
That’s when we realised that Moeller has sold a majority stake in his business, along with ownership of his 8 million slides, to Hard Rock.
The sale means that it’s presumably Hard Rock that’s selling off these rare Led Zeppelin slides. The company presumably also owns the 22,000 remaining tickets for Led Zeppelin’s cancelled Chicago 1980 performance, another collection that Moeller owned.
We asked a representative for Hard Rock whether they could confirm they purchased the Led Zeppelin slides and the unused tickets, and also asked whether Hard Rock is selling off the slides through Sotheby’s. They didn’t respond.
Newsletter exclusive: Jake Holmes says ‘you’ve been served’ in ‘Dazed and Confused’ lawsuit
Jake Holmes’ lawsuit against Jimmy Page and others over “Dazed and Confused” is proceeding, with a process server working for Holmes’ lawer serving one of the companies behind “Becoming Led Zeppelin” with a copy of the lawsuit on July 1.
Filmmaking firm Big Beach, which helped finance the new documentary, was served in person last week, a newly filed legal document shows.
Other legal filings now available show that Sony Pictures Classics and one of the film’s producers have also been served.
Now that paperwork is done, the clock is ticking and the parties have a set number of weeks to file their response to Holmes’ complaint.
Dave Lewis gave an update on his memoirs
There was more news of memoirs this week when Tight But Loose editor Dave Lewis provided an update on the plans for the publication of his own memoirs.
Lewis now plans to publish the first volume of his memoirs in late summer 2026. The book will cover his life up until 1986, he wrote.
“The content draws on over 50 years of personal diaries and a vivid memory. All told with insight, wit and often with a nostalgic tear behind the eye,” Lewis wrote.
Jimmy Page
Allegedly stolen guitar played by Jimmy Page surfaces at The Met
In our June 1 email, we highlighted the role of Jimmy Page’s friend Perry Margouleff in organising a donation of more than 500 guitars from Dirk Ziff to the Metropolitation Museum of Art in New York which plans to exhibit them.
It turns out that one of the guitars in the donation, a 1959 Gibson Les Paul, was previously played by Page. You can even see a shot of Page playing the instrument during his session days in “Becoming Led Zeppelin”.
More controversially, however, it seems the guitar was stolen from Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor in 1971 who bought it from Keith Richards.
We broke down the full story here: The guitar was shown in the museum in 2019 and donated recently as part of the new grant. Now, Taylor’s business partner is alleging the instrument is stolen property.
“Taylor says he never received compensation for the theft and is mystified as to how his property found its way into the Met’s collection,” a source told Page Six.
Robert Plant
Robert Plant is back on tour with Saving Grace
Robert Plant has returned to touring with Saving Grace, performing with the band at the Festival de Poupet in Saint-Malô-du-Bois, France on July 10. The band also performed earlier this evening at the Lucca Summer Festival in Lucca, Italy.
Here’s Plant playing the bass on “It Don’t Bother Me” on July 10:
And here’s “Gallows Pole”, also from July 10:
Photographs of the July 10 performance were posted on Instagram by Philippe Archambeau:
Here’s a photograph from earlier today:
Saving Grace band member Matt Worley appears to be posting behind the scenes photographs on Instagram for this tour, just like he has for other tour legs:
Robert Plant went to see Beverley Knight perform in ‘Marie and Rosetta’
Robert Plant attended a performance of the play “Marie and Rosetta” in Chichester on July 7.
The play is about legendary musician Sister Rosetta Tharpe and her singing partner Marie Knight.
Plant greeted Beverley Knight, who plays Tharpe, backstage and went to drinks afterwards with some of the team behind the play along with his girlfriend Dawn and Deborah Bonham.
“Robert gave me a gift of two albums, one by Blues artists Fred McDowell and the other by our own Sister Rosetta,” Knight wrote on Instagram.
We’re going to assume that Knight’s mention of Plant’s “wife” was a mistake, rather than a surprise reveal that Plant has remarried.
John Paul Jones
New classical music written by John Paul Jones will premiere in January
A new song cycle written by John Paul Jones for opera performer Dame Sarah Connolly will have its premiere at London’s Wigmore Hall on January 8, LedZepNews revealed this week.
We don’t yet know the title of Jones’ song cycle or its theme, other than the fact it’s based on four poems.
Upcoming events:
July 15 - Robert Plant will perform with Saving Grace at the Jazz à Juan music festival in Juan-les-Pins, France.
July 17 - Robert Plant will perform with Saving Grace in Vienne, France.
July 19 - Robert Plant will perform with Saving Grace in Salon-de-Provence, France.
July 21 - Robert Plant will perform with Saving Grace at the Jazz in Marciac festival in Marciac, France.
July 23 - Robert Plant will perform with Saving Grace at Festival de Carcassonne in Carcassonne, France.
July 25 - Paul Weller’s new album Find El Dorado, which features Robert Plant on the track “Clive’s Song”, will be released. Patty Griffin’s new album Crown of Rosses, which features Plant on the song “Long Time”, will also be released.
July 26 - Robert Plant will perform with Saving Grace at the 1001 Músicas festival in Granada, Spain.
July 28 - Robert Plant will perform with Saving Grace in Valencia, Spain.
July 30 - Robert Plant will perform with Saving Grace in Barcelona, Spain.
September 11 - The book “Valhalla!: The A to Z of Led Zeppelin” by Paul Brannigan will be published.
September 26 - ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ will be released in Japan.
October 28 - Cameron Crowe’s memoir ‘The Uncool’ will be published and an updated edition of Denny Somach’s book ‘Get the Led Out: How Led Zeppelin Became the Biggest Band in the World’ will also be published.
January 8, 2026 - John Paul Jones’ song cycle for Dame Sarah Connolly will have its premiere in London.
April 16, 2026 - Former Jimmy Page and Robert Plant manager Bill Curbishley’s memoirs, ‘To Be Or Not To Be: A Life in Music’, will be published.
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