Led Zeppelin’s 2007 reunion concert in London featured ‘For Your Life’, a 1976 track that original drummer John Bonham had never performed live. The performance mattered because it allowed the band, with Bonham’s son Jason on drums, to revisit a demanding deep cut and acknowledge dedicated fans at one of their most significant post-1980 appearances.

John Bonham’s death in 1980 led Led Zeppelin to disband, as the group considered his distinctive drumming impossible to replace. At the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert, Jason Bonham joined Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones; Page said the song was difficult because of its many unexpected changes, and the band chose it partly because only committed fans would recognise it. ‘For Your Life’, from the album *Presence*, was reportedly inspired by an acquaintance of Plant’s struggling with drug dependence.