More than 80 minutes of historic 1970 Led Zeppelin footage emerges online: “This is a monumental addition to the Led Zeppelin canon”

All known surviving footage of Led Zeppelin's performance at the 1970 Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music has been uploaded to YouTube by film archivist ledzepfilm, giving fans access to more than 80 minutes of onstage and backstage material for the first time. The footage is significant because the Bath show is widely regarded by Led Zeppelin historians as a career-defining moment, marking their biggest UK performance to date and helping cement their reputation ahead of the band's later global success.

The 16mm film was shot by Peter Whitehead and Ernie Vincze on 28 June 1970, though technical issues mean much of it is dark, having been shot on daytime-only stock, while the audio, recorded separately on a portable reel-to-reel machine, is incomplete and matched to picture afterwards. Highlights include backstage scenes with Jimmy Page and John Bonham, the live debut of Immigrant Song, and performances of Dazed and Confused, Whole Lotta Love and Moby Dick, with some clips silent and others synced using audience recordings. Fanzine editor Dave Lewis has called the show historically pivotal, noting it featured the band's first acoustic performance and five encores.