Complete Led Zeppelin set list from the O2 arena

Here's the complete set list from Led Zeppelin's performance on December 10, 2007

• Clip from news footage of Led Zeppelin's jet landing at the Tampa International Airport in 1973 [as seen on the newly released two-disc release of The Song Remains the Same on DVD]
• Good Times Bad Times - live debut by Led Zeppelin [Intro and complete song here, with a separate source covering the beginning of the song here]
• Ramble On - live debut by Led Zeppelin
• Black Dog [This one-minute snippet has been used in news reports such as this one]
• In My Time of Dying [brief clips of this song can be seen here, here and here]
• For Your Life - live debut by any of Led Zeppelin's members [half a minute of this song can be seen here]
• Trampled Under Foot [half a minute of this song can be seen here]
• Nobody's Fault But Mine [half a minute of this song can be seen here]
• No Quarter [nearly a minute and a half of this song is here and here]
• Since I've Been Loving You [most of this song is here, and even more of this song is here]
• Dazed and Confused [a two-minute sampling is here]
• Stairway to Heaven [this complete song is here with a brief snippet here]
• The Song Remains the Same [a snippet of the song is here]
• Misty Mountain Hop
• Kashmir [this song is here]

Encores:

• Whole Lotta Love [the song is here, with crowd reaction to it here]
• Rock and Roll [the song is here]

Update: Links to Youtube clips added above!

Another update: Incorrect reports said "Custard Pie" was played. It evidently was not.

Fourth report from fans in London

(Photo from yesterday's soundcheck taken by Ross Halfin)

The concert is underway, and Led Zeppelin is about to start. Stay tuned!

Update: Songs played will appear in the comments section of this post!

Looks like the lineup was a bunch of Ertegün favorites. This according to New Musical Express:

The Ahmet Ertegun tribute concert is now well underway at London's O2 Arena.
The concert started with a supergroup of Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Keith Emerson, joined by Alan White and Chris Squire from 60's prog rock group Yes, and Bad Company's Simon Kirke, performing 'Fanfare Of The Common Man'.
The group were then swiftly followed with Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings taking to the stage, who are to be the night's house band.
Singer Maggie Bell, rock'n' roller Alvin Lee and Mike Sanchez then took to the stage to perform a succession of 50s soul ballads.
Paul Rodgers came on next performing his classic riff track 'All Right Now' followed by Bad Company's 'Seagull'.
Foreigner then took to the stage with their biggest hit 'Do You Want To Know What Love Is', the band were accompanied by a children's choir for the huge sing-along chorus.
The stage is now being cleared for what presumably will be Led Zeppelin.

Third report from fans in London

Chris from Virginia, who got two tickets in the first passcode drawing, just called me from a pub near the O2 arena to let me know he's in the presence of Led Zeppelin authority Robert Godwin. In case you didn't know, Godwin is the celebrated author of "The Press Reports" and "The Collector's Guide to Led Zeppelin" among others. And, according to the story Chris just told me, Godwin is also the guy who coined the name of the bootleg Listen to This, Eddie!

Godwin was apparently fed up with hearing the fictional story about the bootleg title being attributed to some radio disc jockey who had Eddie Van Halen on his radio program. According to that old wives' tale, Eddie was complaining about Jimmy Page's guitar playing as being sloppy, which miffed the DJ, who then played a fine counterexample, ordering him, "Listen to this, Eddie!"

Well, the story has now been debunked by none other than Godwin himself, who says he coined it. The bit about Eddie Van Halen complaining about Page's guitar playing as "sloppy" was correct, but it was Godwin who suggested to the publisher of the first unofficial release of Led Zeppelin's show from Los Angeles on June 21, 1977, that the guitar playing on that date was so good it should be played to Eddie Van Halen. Godwin suggested that someone ought to take this concert recording to Eddie Van Halen and say, "Listen to this, Eddie!" And hence the bootleg title was born! Thanks for the tidbit, Chris!

Speaking of bootlegging, somebody "anonymous" wrote a very nice comment today on my blog posting from September 2 about bootlegging. It reads like an essay, and it offers a very nice suggestion for bands that have been recorded. It is some very useful advice for Led Zeppelin.

Word has it the Ahmet Ertegün tribute concert is going to open with an all-star performance of "Fanfare for the Common Man," the Aaron Copland piece popularized by ELP. Participating in the performance are to be the E of ELP -- Keith Emerson -- along with Alan White and Chris Squire (who are both members of Yes and played with Page in a band called XYZ shortly after the demise of Led Zeppelin) and possibly also Rick Wakeman, who may or may not be wearing a cape. What a beginning to the show this would be!

I was listening to some Foreigner the other day. Great stuff! I called up one of my brothers out of blue that night and asked him what the best saxophone solo in rock history is. I didn't give him a hint that I was looking for a particular answer. It took him a minute of listing off a few contenders, and then he got the exact song I was thinking of: "Urgent" by Foreigner.