Michael, a visitor to one of my webpages — although I can’t figure out which one — informs me just in time for the 40th anniversary that the Led Zeppelin concert I had the audacious luck to see in Manchester, England, in June 1969 was on the 15th, a date I hadn’t manage to record.

Michael pointed me to the Zep’s website page about the show at the Free Trade Hall, which happens to contain a fair bit of information.

I redis- covered that, for the price of my £1 ticket, I got to hear “Train Kept a-Rollin’”, “I Can’t Quit You Baby”, “Dazed and Confused”, “As Long as I Have You”, “Killing Floor”, “White Summer / Black Mountainside”, “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You”, “You Shook Me”, “How Many More Times”, “Communication Breakdown” and “Pat’s Delight”.

Manchester was the third night on a seven-stop English tour for the recently fledged supergroup, after Newcastle and Birmingham. Bristol, Portsmouth and Bath followed, and then they finished things off at London’s Royal Albert Hall on the 29th.

Along the way, Zeppelin hopped over to Paris to play “Communication Breakdown” on a TV show, the video from which is now widely available.

While I was at the website, knowing I’d laid out a full quid to see them live, I helped myself to a couple of mementoes.

Wonder what I did with my own ticket?

This 6MB animated GIF, a quick clip from the French TV taping, will take a few moments to load.

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