Led Zeppelin Australasian Tour 1972

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Australasia 1972
Concert tour by Led Zeppelin
Locations Australia, New Zealand
Start date February 16, 1972
End date February 29, 1972
Legs 1
Shows 6
Led Zeppelin tour chronology
United Kingdom Winter 1971
 Australasia 1972
 North America 1972

Led Zeppelin's 1972 Australasian Tour was the first and only concert tour of Australia and New Zealand by the English rock band. The tour commenced on February 16 and concluded on February 29, 1972.

The original plan for this tour was for the group to stop off en route at Singapore for a concert on February 14, but the local authorities refused their entry due to local laws banning the wearing of long hair by men.[1]

Led Zeppelin received generally good press coverage for this tour and black and white footage of some of their concert at Sydney on February 27, along with a press party, were filmed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and shown to a national audience.[1] Some of this footage was later made available on the Led Zeppelin DVD, released in 2003.

All of the concerts on this tour except for one (at Brisbane on February 29) were performed at open-air venues. The Melbourne performance at Kooyong Stadium on February 20 was cut short due to inclement weather.

Contents

[edit] Tour set list

The fairly typical set list for the tour was:

  1. "Immigrant Song" (Page, Plant)
  2. "Heartbreaker" (Bonham, Page, Plant)
  3. "Black Dog" (Page, Plant, Jones)
  4. "Since I've Been Loving You" (Page, Plant, Jones)
  5. "Stairway to Heaven" (Page, Plant)
  6. "Going to California" (Page, Plant)
  7. "That's the Way" (Page, Plant)
  8. "Tangerine" (Page)
  9. "Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp" (Page, Plant, Jones)
  10. "Dazed and Confused" (Page)
  11. "What Is and What Should Never Be" (Page, Plant)
  12. "Rock and Roll" (Page, Plant, Jones, Bonham)
  13. "Moby Dick" (Bonham)
  14. "Whole Lotta Love" (Bonham, Dixon, Jones, Page, Plant)

There were some set list substitutions, variations, and order switches during the tour.

[edit] Tour dates

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Lewis, Dave and Pallett, Simon (1997) Led Zeppelin: The Concert File, London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-5307-4, p. 74.

[edit] Sources

  • Lewis, Dave and Pallett, Simon (1997) Led Zeppelin: The Concert File, London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-5307-4.
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