It was 36 years ago today that Linda Lovelace lived what must have been a dream come true: Introducing Led Zeppelin onstage at the LA Forum for the final night of their US tour. Linda was a huge Zeppelin fan and had spent the previous couple of days hanging with the band. Robert Plant had brought her to the Shrine Auditorium the previous night, where he introduced her and she introduced The Pretty Things.
Here, thanks to the magic of bootlegging, you can relive this incredibly short moment in Linda Lovelace history, as recorded by legendary taper Mike the Mike. The first clip is very short and Linda's only on it for about 5 seconds, then there's lots of crowd noise as the band hits the stage. The second clip is LZ's performance of "Rock and Roll" followed by a third clip, "Sick again," which ends with Robert Plant thanking Linda for the intro.
The show appears on lots of boots including Deep Throat, Electric Orgasm, Linda Love Led and Deep Throat Trilogy, a box set collecting all three shows of their LA Forum stand. The link will take you to a piece of pretty funny artwork for Deep Throat from the excellent website ZeppelinArt.
Linda told me she thought Robert Plant was "really really nice." Seems like a gentleman here. . . .
