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Dazzling Led Zep III

On September 7, 1968, more than 1200 people turned up at the Gladsaxe Teen Club near Copenhagen to see the latest incarnation of a band with a big reputation and a string of hits behind them. But The New Yardbirds, as they were billed, had instead become something really new, Led Zeppelin, by

Vintage voices

When the Daily Mail’s Classical Music Critic dropped into The Record Album recently, his eyes alighted keenly and immediately on a sizeable collection of historic vocal recordings in the far corner of the back room. There, nestling in the bins seemingly neglected, are the distinctive lilac covers of vinyl albums from the prestigious