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A rare vinyl copy of Led Zeppelin‘s unreleased 1969 single Whole Lotta Love was valued during an episode of BBC television show Antiques Roadshow, broadcast on October 4.
“This single was never released in the UK, it shouldn’t really exist,” commented antiques expert Marc Allum when handed the seven-inch single during filming of the long-running TV show at Caerphilly Castle in Wales.
The single was brought along to the show by a man who DJ-ed at discos in the area in the 1970s.
“It was given to me by a rep in a record shop in early 1970,” the man explained. “I was looking for records to start up a disco, and out of his bag came a couple of records, and he said, ‘You can have those’. One of them was that.”
He went on to reveal that he had only played the record “eight to ten times” and that “people weren’t interested”.
“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,” Marc Allum tells viewers. “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.”
“They’re really difficult things to put a value on,” Allum continued, “At auction, this would sell for a thousand pounds.”
When he heard the expert’s valuation, the owner of the record joked, “Can we keep it a secret?”
Famously, Led Zeppelin never wanted their songs released as singles in the UK by their record company, believing that they were best heard within the context of an album. This didn’t initially please their label, Atlantic.
“With Whole Lotta Love, that was clearly going to be the track that everybody was going to go to, because that riff was so fresh and it still is,” Jimmy Page once told Chris Bird, editor of Total Guitar magazine. “But I knew with Whole Lotta Love that there weren’t going to be any edits.
“I insisted that they kept the middle section in it, which of course they didn’t like, but they had to do it. So I thought, well, if you just keep making the numbers longer and longer… [Laughs] They’re not going to make them singles! I did think that in a mischievous way.”
Despite Jimmy Page’s aversion to singles, Led Zeppelin did release Whole Lotta Love in many other territories, including the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France and Japan.
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Aerosmith appears to be gearing up for a comeback. On Monday, Oct. 5, the band posted a video of frontman Steven Tyler perched on a ladder, tacking letters onto the Hollywood Bowl marquee while rock photographer Ross Halfin looked on. Tyler asked Halfin to hand him an ampersand and explained why he needed it, saying: “It’s Aerosmith and friends, Ross… Aerosmith and friends!” The dates on the marquee read “Oct. 29” and “Nov. 1.”
The band says full details on the possible return shows will be revealed Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 7 a.m. PT / 10 a.m. ET. The teaser video is available below.
Two years ago, Aerosmith announced that it was retiring from touring because of Tyler‘s vocal injury. The Aug. 2, 2024 announcement came almost a year after the singer, now 78, fractured his larynx at a September 2023 show.
Tyler and Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry shared a stage for the first time in almost two years on April 30, 2025, at a private concert Tyler hosted in San Francisco. The event benefited Janie’s Fund, the initiative Tyler founded to bring hope and healing to girls and young women who have experienced trauma.
The band’s Peace Out tour ended abruptly after what became its final date, in Elmont, N.Y., on Sept. 9, 2023. That show was only the third of the trek, which was set to run through February 2024. Tyler said in a statement at the time that the injury had caused bleeding, though he hoped to get back on the road with his bandmates after a few postponed shows.
The rescheduled “Peace Out” dates were due to begin Sept. 20, 2024 in Pittsburgh, with The Black Crowes as special guests.
Last November, Perry and Tyler released One More Time, a five-song EP made with British rocker Yungblud, whose real name is Dominic Harrison.
Earlier this summer, Perry toured Europe with Hollywood Vampires, a rock and roll supergroup that also features Alice Cooper, Cooper‘s guitarist Tommy Henriksen and actor Johnny Depp.