LED ZEPPELIN FINAL CONCERT WITH JOHN BONHAM JULY 7, 1980 TICKET BERLIN GERMANY

Description: ONE OF THE RAREST & MOST VALUABLE CONCERT TICKETS OF ALL TIME! JOHN BONHAM LAST APPEARANCE & LAST PERFORMANCE FOR LED ZEPPELIN BEFORE HIS TRAGIC PASSING This is a rare and original ticket from the Led Zeppelin's final concert with John Bonham on July 7, 1980 in Berlin, Germany. The ticket is a must-have for any music memorabilia collector and a great addition to any collection. The concert was part of the band's legendary rock and roll performances and this ticket is a piece of history that will always be in-demand. The ticket is in great shape and is a fantastic find for any Led Zeppelin fan. The historic gig went down on this day in 1980 On July 7 1980, John Bonham took to his drum kit with Led Zeppelin to play the final show of the band’s ‘Cut The Waffle’ tour in Berlin. As incredulous as it may seem today, in 1980, Led Zeppelin were petrified at the prospect of becoming culturally irrelevant. The rising popularity of genres like punk and new wave were starting to render the rock ‘n’ roll heroes of yesteryear obsolete, and it was appearing more and more evident that the band’s onstage antics were beginning to wear thin on audiences – apparently, it only took three years for 20-minute drum solos and violin bow guitar solos to go out of style. When Led Zeppelin agreed to embark on a 14-date tour around Europe that year, they went about ensuring that the tour would represent them as being a band of the times; not just a dinosaur act from last decade playing out the hits to an ageing fan base. The legendary quartet stripped back all the lights and lasers that had adorned their stage set-up in the years prior, and even removed some of their more bombastic tracks like ‘Dazed and Confused’ and ‘No Quarter’ from their set-list, delivering nothing but the hard rocking energy that saw them conquer the world in the first place. As their final show in Berlin proved, Led Zeppelin were still very much in their prime (bar a few sloppy solos from Page) and John Bonham was still a total dynamo behind the drum kit. Throughout the 14-song set, which you can listen to below, Bonham’s trademark pounding grooves are as potent as ever, with ‘Trampled Under Foot’ and a climactic 16-minute version of ‘Whole Lotta Love’ seeing him thrash his kit into oblivion one final time onstage: he really was something quite special. Rest in peace to a true legend of rock ‘n roll. What did Led Zeppelin play at their last concert with John Bonham? Zeppelin drummer John Bonham died in 1980 - where was his last show with the band and what did they play? It's now more than 40 years since Led Zeppelin officially disbanded. The legendary rock band has reunited on several occasions - notably at Live Aid in 1985 and again for a charity event in 2007 which entered the record books as the "Highest Demand For Tickets For One Music Concert" after 20 million requests hit the O2's website. This event was held in tribute to Ahmet Ertegun, the man behind Zeppelin's record label, Atlantic, who had died the previous year. The O2 show marked Led Zeppelin's first full-length performance since the death of their drummer John Bonham nearly three decades earlier. For the night, his place was taken by his son, Jason. John Bonham died on 25th September 1980, aged just 32 years old. The tragedy came just as Led Zep were about to head out on a North American tour, their first for three years. Zeppelin had issued their final studio album, In Through The Out Door, in the summer of 1979. It wasn't an easy time for the band - despite being one of the biggest rock acts of the decade, the death of Robert Plant's young son in 1977, other personal issues and an enforced exile from the UK for tax reasons had put a strain on the group. Alongside this, there was also the issue of Bonham's alcoholism. Always a big drinker, the drummer was finding the stress of being on the road difficult and turned to booze. Despite all this, Led Zeppelin performed two enormous shows in August 1979 at Knebworth. It turned out that this pair of dates (4th and 11th August 1979) would be the band's final UK concerts. n June 1980, Zeppelin began a short tour of arenas in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. However, when they got to Nuremberg on 27th June, John Bonham's health problems caught up with him. They began the show as usual with covers of The Train Kept A-Rollin' and Nobody's Fault But Mine, but during the third song, Black Dog, it was apparently that Bonham wasn't well. Jimmy Page introduced the song by saying: "There's two of us tonight who aren't feeling at all well. A bit of stomach trouble, so we're gonna do our best, whatever, as usual..." Listening back to the tape of the evening, you can hear that Bonham's usually unflappable timing has gone and the song sounds a mess. But they finish the tune and Robert Plant starts to introduce the next song, In The Evening. However, Bonham has collapsed and fallen off his drum stool. "We've just got a slight technical problem if you can bear with us," Plant says, nervously. "We just have a minute problem, so if you can wait patiently, we'd be very grateful. Hang on." The show didn't resume and ended there. Bizarrely, one of the official reasons given for Bonham's collapse was that he'd eaten 27 bananas, apparently because he needed some potassium. A number of fans who were at the show, however, have claimed that the drummer looked drunk on the night. The tour was picked up a couple of days later and wound up at Berlin's Eissporthalle on 7th July. This would be John Bonham's final show with Led Zeppelin. This is what they played: Led Zeppelin at Eissporthalle, Berlin, Germany 7th July 1980 setlist The Train Kept A-Rollin' Nobody's Fault But Mine Black Dog In The Evening The Rain Song Hot Dog All My Love Trampled Under Foot Since I've Been Loving You White Summer / Black Mountain Side Kashmir Stairway To Heaven Encore Rock And Roll Whole Lotta Love With the European tour over, Led Zeppelin retreated to rehearse for their forthcoming North American dates. On 24th September 1980, Bonham was taken to Bray Studios in Berkshire, where Zeppelin were rehearsing. On the way there, according to his assistant Rex King, Bonham asked to stop "for breakfast" and ate a ham roll accompanied by four quadruple vodkas. The drummer kept drinking throughout the day and when the rehearsal was over, the group returned to Jimmy Page's house in Windsor. By midnight, Bonham was out cold and was taken to bed. When Zeppelin's tour manager and bassist John Paul Jones went to wake him the next afternoon, they discovered that he'd died in the night. An inquest ruled that Bonham had died through inhaling vomit after drinking "about 40 measures" of vodka in 12 hours. Doctors found no other recreational drugs in his body. Not surprisingly, the US tour was cancelled. On 4th December 1980, the surviving members of Led Zeppelin issued a statement: "We wish it to be known that the loss of our dear friend, and the deep sense of undivided harmony felt by ourselves and our manager, have led us to decide that we could not continue as we were." It was the end of one of the greatest rock bands in history.

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