Katherine Schofield
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Entertainment Memorabilia / The (New) Yardbirds/Led Zeppelin An unusual concert contract for The Yardbirds, 1969,
Rock & Pop
Lot 87
The (New) Yardbirds/Led Zeppelin: An unusual concert contract for The Yardbirds,
1969,
Withdrawn
Amended
11 December 2018, 12:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£300 - £500
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Claire Tole-Moir
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The (New) Yardbirds/Led Zeppelin: An unusual concert contract for The Yardbirds,
1969,
the Premier Talent Associates, Inc. standard contract dated 4th March 1969, with typewritten details, for the band to appear at the Corpus Christie Hall, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin on 29th June 1969 for two shows for a fee of $1,750, signed in blue ballpoint by the Rev. Robert Cornell as 'Purchaser', together with the original Premier Talent Associates, Inc. envelope postmarked New York May 28 '69, addressed in red ballpoint Peter Grant c/o Steve Weiss...New York, contract 8 1/2in x 11in (21.5cm x 28cm)
the Premier Talent Associates, Inc. standard contract dated 4th March 1969, with typewritten details, for the band to appear at the Corpus Christie Hall, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin on 29th June 1969 for two shows for a fee of $1,750, signed in blue ballpoint by the Rev. Robert Cornell as 'Purchaser', together with the original Premier Talent Associates, Inc. envelope postmarked New York May 28 '69, addressed in red ballpoint Peter Grant c/o Steve Weiss...New York, contract 8 1/2in x 11in (21.5cm x 28cm)
Footnotes
The nascent Led Zeppelin undertook their first UK tour in October 1968, still billed as the New Yardbirds, playing their first gig as Led Zeppelin in London on 25th October. Despite their first (LZ) US tour at the end of that year and the first album being released in January 1969, when this contract was drawn up there was obviously still some confusion in the US about the band's name.
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