“Bonzo had been my closest”: Cole, Stairway to Heaven, p. 371.

  “We went to a hotel”: Benji Le Fevre interview.

  “They came back from Jersey”: Peter Grant, quoted in Lewis, “Peter Grant Interview,” p. 99.

  “I couldn’t even think”: JPJ, quoted in Lisa Robinson, “Stairway to Excess,” Vanity Fair, November 2003.

  He felt it would have: “It would have been another band entirely. And that’s not what we wanted to do.” JPJ, quoted in “John Paul Jones,” San Diego Union-Tribune, 2004.

  “No John Bonham”: JPJ, quoted in Gail Worley, “Getting the Led Out: A John Paul Jones Interview,” KNAC-FM (Long Beach, CA), April 1, 2002.

  “We’ll be together certainly”: JP, quoted in Lisa Robinson, “Whole Lotta Led in the Deep South,” Disc and Music Echo, June 9, 1973.

  “It would be silly”: JP, quoted in Andy Secher, “Jimmy Page Interview,” Hit Parader, July 1982.

  “For me, there was no”: RP, quoted in Williamson, “Good Times, Bad Times,” p. 61.

  “The record company were absolutely”: Peter Grant, quoted in Doyle, “When the Levee Breaks,” p. 111.

  Simon Kirke, Bad Company’s drummer: “Having Simon come in was discussed.” Shelley Kaye, interview with the author, July 15, 2019.

  “Within a day of Bonzo’s death”: Phil Carlo interview.

  “We wish it to be known”: Swan Song Records press release, December 4, 1980.

  “I just felt really insecure”: JP, quoted in Chris Welch, “Jimmy Page On Stage ’85,” Creem, April 1985.

  “He was trying to come”: Benji Le Fevre interview.

  “It seemed such a waste”: “At first, the main emotion for me was anger.” JPJ, quoted in Lewis, “John Paul Jones Interview,” p. 121.

  “After John’s death”: Aubrey Powell, interview with the author, May 15, 2019.

  “the beginning of the period”: Peter Grant, quoted in Lewis, “Peter Grant Interview,” p. 99.

  “Nothing was getting taken”: Shelley Kaye interview, July 15, 2019.

  “They sent a limo for him”: Benji Le Fevre interview.

  “Fuck Weiss”: Peter Grant, quoted in Hoskyns, Trampled, p. 395.

  “I used to go in”: Maggie Bell, interview with the author, May 8, 2019.

  “There were no records”: Phil Carson, interview with the author, July 2, 2019.

  “That was an agreement”: “In fact, the contract for that was called the Omega contract.” Peter Grant, quoted in Lewis, “Peter Grant Interview,” p. 99.

  “When we lost John”: JP, quoted in Barney Hoskyns, “The Jimmy Page Interview,” Rock’s Backpages, March 2003.

  “all that sort of naiveté”: RP, quoted in Barney Hoskyns, “Interview with Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and Robert Plant,” Mojo, June 2003.

  “When I saw all the oceans”: JP, quoted in Nick Kent, “Jimmy Page Interview,” Vox, December 1990.

  “We wrote ‘Wearing and Tearing’”: RP, quoted in Thor Christensen, “A Decade Later, Plant Refuses to Relive His Past,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 22, 1990.

  “We wanted to put it out”: RP, quoted in Steven Rosen, “Robert Plant: Deference to the Taskmaster,” Guitar World, July 1986.

  “I don’t know what category”: JP, quoted in Dave Schulps, Trouser Press interview, Part 3, p. 22.

  “highly intent on change”: JP, interview with Alan Freeman, Capital Radio/DIR, November 4, 1976.

  “Nobody’s heart was in”: Aubrey Powell interview.

  “graveyard status seems assured”: Richard Cook, “Led Zeppelin: Coda” (review), NME, December 11, 1982.

  “like a walking skeleton”: Dave Dickson, quoted in Wall, When Giants Walked the Earth, p. 421.

  “I did nothing for as long”: RP, quoted in Tom Hibbert, “Robert Plant: Guilty!” Q, March 1988.

  “I never worried”: JPJ, quoted in Steven P. Wheeler, “John Paul Jones: Life After Zeppelin,” Happening, October 1999.

  “I called Jimmy and said”: RP, quoted in Dave Lewis, “Wearing and Tearing Post 1980,” in Lewis, Led Zeppelin: A Celebration, p. 79.

  “would be like meeting”: RP, quoted in Sylvie Simmon, “Friends,” Q Special Edition: Led Zeppelin, March 2003, p. 116.

  “I had to say to them”: JPJ, quoted in interview with Dave Ling, Classic Rock, March 2003.

  “I fucking knew”: JP, quoted in Phil Carlo interview.

  “John Paul Jones arrived”: “My main memories were of total panic.” JP, quoted in Wall, When Giants Walked the Earth, p. 424.

  “had nothing left at all”: “I was hoarse, I’d rehearsed all afternoon, I’d sung three concerts in succession with my own band at the time and when I came to sing that night . . . nothing there.” RP, quoted in Danny Fields, “Robert Plant,” Details, July 1988.

  “Seventeen years, and we still”: RP, quoted in Lewis, “Wearing and Tearing Post 1980,” p. 80.

  “After the second number”: Phil Carlo interview.

  “What I hated about Led Zeppelin”: RP, quoted in Fields, “Robert Plant.”

  Everything Jimmy did grated: “Handling Jimmy Page’s eccentricity was now not so easy.” Lewis, “Wearing and Tearing, Post 1980,” p. 80.

  “What I recall”: JPJ, quoted in Wheeler, “John Paul Jones: Life After Zeppelin.”

  “There might have been”: JP, quoted in Wall, When Giants Walked the Earth, p. 431.

  “Heard from the floor”: Sasha Frere-Jones, “Stairway to Here,” New Yorker, December 24, 2007.

  “Some of the top”: Ben Ratliff, “Led Zeppelin Finds Its Old Power,” New York Times, December 10, 2007.

  “Plant’s voice was rich”: Frere-Jones, “Stairway to Here.”

  “If there were skeptics tonight”: Hamish McBain, “Led Zeppelin at O2” (review), NME, December 10, 2007.

  “They delivered the best show”: Steve Baltin, “Revisiting Led Zeppelin’s 2007 Reunion Show,” Forbes, May 27, 2020.

  Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones waited: Mark Beaumont, “The Untimely Death of Led Zeppelin,” The Independent, December 1, 2020.

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  Websites

  classicrock.com

  classicrockmagazine.com

  cyrildavies.com

  jimmypage.com

  johnpauljones.com

  justbackdated.blogspot.co.uk

  ledzepconcerts.com

  ledzeppelin.com

  ledzeppelin-database.com

  ledzeppelin-reference.com

  rambleonzep.com

  rocksbackpages.com

  robertplant.com

  robertplanthomepage.com

  thefamousmarqueeclub.comthegardentapes.co.uk

  tightbutloose.co.uk

  ukrockfestivals.com

  uuweb.led-zeppelin.us

  wholelottaled.webs.com

  zososymbol.com

  Films

  Celebration Day, 2012

  How the West Was Won, 2006

  It Might Get Loud, 2009

  No Quarter: Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, 2004

  Peter Grant interview w/Malcolm McLaren [unreleased]

  Prog Rock Britannia, 2009/2010, BBC

  Red, White & Blues, 2003

  The Song Remains the Same, 1976

  Still On the Run: The Jeff Beck Story, 2018

  Fanzines

  Electric Magic

  The Ocean

  Oh Jimmy

  Proximity

  Tight but Loose

  Zoso