When Robert Plant told the crowd “It feels great to be back” as Led Zeppelin played the second Oakland concert of their first U.S. tour in two years, he couldn’t have known it would also be their final show in America.
It was July 24, 1977, and there were just seven more concerts left on the schedule for the massive four-month tour, which kicked off on April 1 in Dallas. But when the singer’s 5-year old son died two days later, they were canceled.
On Sept. 11, 1980, the band announced plans for a return to the U.S. with a tour called the 1980s: Part One. But two weeks later, the day after the group’s first rehearsal for that trip, drummer John Bonham died after reportedly drinking “40 measures of vodka in 12 hours.” Two months later, Led Zeppelin said they wouldn’t carry on without him, meaning that the British icons delivered their American farewell without knowing it.
Their 11th visit to the States had already been mired in conflict, partly caused by the loss of momentum forced upon them by Plant’s 1975 car crash. The 1977 tour was originally scheduled to start in February, but was postponed when the singer suffered an attack of laryngitis.
Let's taste a bit of that show with Going To California...
It was July 24, 1977, and there were just seven more concerts left on the schedule for the massive four-month tour, which kicked off on April 1 in Dallas. But when the singer’s 5-year old son died two days later, they were canceled.
On Sept. 11, 1980, the band announced plans for a return to the U.S. with a tour called the 1980s: Part One. But two weeks later, the day after the group’s first rehearsal for that trip, drummer John Bonham died after reportedly drinking “40 measures of vodka in 12 hours.” Two months later, Led Zeppelin said they wouldn’t carry on without him, meaning that the British icons delivered their American farewell without knowing it.
Their 11th visit to the States had already been mired in conflict, partly caused by the loss of momentum forced upon them by Plant’s 1975 car crash. The 1977 tour was originally scheduled to start in February, but was postponed when the singer suffered an attack of laryngitis.
Let's taste a bit of that show with Going To California...
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