Zeppelin '75
Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, March 1975
PICTURE YOURSELF in a seat in a stadium, with ten thousand teens going mad on all sides. Something's announced and you look up quite swiftly: the band is about to arrive. Hopeful photographers rush to the stage, snapping til they're dragged away; up come the lights with a roar from the crowd and they're on.
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