A rare vinyl 45 of a Led Zeppelin classic recently turned up on Antiques Roadshow.
On the Oct. 4 episode of the BBC series, a seller presented a copy of the song “Whole Lotta Love.” Written by John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant, with a credit also given to blues great Willie Dixon, the song was the opening track on the British rock band’s second album in 1969.
Only 500 copies of the single were pressed by Atlantic Records. But the copies of the rare Led Zeppelin single had reportedly been ordered by the band’s management to be recalled and destroyed due to Led Zeppelin’s strict “no singles” rule in the UK, according to NME.
The man who brought his copy to Antiques Roadshow told antiques expert Marc Allum that he got the record in the early ‘70s when he was working as a DJ.
“It was given to me by a rep in a record shop in early 1970. I was looking for records to start a disco and out of his bag came a couple of records and he went ‘you can have those.’ One of them was that,” he told Allum, per Classic Rock.
Allum told the record owner, “This single was never released in the UK, it shouldn’t really exist.”
The antiques expert added, “There are a lot of myths that build up around these kind of things, and stories, and I heard that 500 were pressed, and they went out. And this came about apparently because there was a kind of disparity between the relationship between the management, the band, and the record company, and Led Zeppelin the band hadn’t agreed to have any singles released. They were immediately recalled, but human nature being what it is, some people didn’t return them all.”
He estimated that due to finger marks and scratches, the record was worth around £1,000 ($1327 USD) at auction.
The “Whole Lotta Love” single was a rare exception to the band’s stance of releasing their music only through albums. But its five-minute length caused problems when it was released to radio stations as a promo single.
“It was only for American AM radio stations to promote the LP and that was a full-length version of the LP track,” late drummer John Bonham once explained to Melody Maker, per Billboard.
But DJs and producers decided to run their own edit of the song by cutting out a piece of the middle section to lessen the run time, which prompted requests from retailers for copies of the edited version.
Fifty-seven years after its release, “Whole Lotta Love” remains one of Led Zeppelin’s most iconic songs and is still an FM radio favorite, where it’s played in its entirety.
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