Jonathan Barnes from Eveningstar.co.uk is reporting:

It was a concert that has gone down in Suffolk music legend - the night one of the biggest rock bands in the world played at a converted swimming pool.

But there are no official recordings of LED ZEPPELIN's gig at St Matthews Baths Hall in Ipswich in November 1971; only a handful of patched-together recordings from a small band of bootleggers.

So rock fan Vic Kemp could not believe his luck when he found a CD at a car boot sale featuring a recording of the whole concert.

“I was going through a stand of CDs at the car boot at Portman Road and the guy who was selling them said 'you might be interested in this',” he said.

“It doesn't have a proper cover and the title is just written in felt-tip pen. I think the date of the concert is wrong, as it says 1972, but the recording is not too bad at all. It's on a double CD.

“It must have been recorded by someone standing at the front with a microphone. You can hear (singer) Robert Plant talking to the audience quite clearly. It only cost me two or three pounds. I've no idea how many other copies there are or if it's worth anything. It's just incredible that they played such a small venue - and it sounds an amazing gig,”

The event was hosted by Ipswich concert promoters Ron and Nanda Lesley and notorious Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant and the poster bears the slogan: “For one night only, the internationally famous Led Zeppelin.” Tickets for the concert cost £1.

Several years ago a group of bootleggers put together the only three known “source” tapes of the concert and produced a CD, which was titled Internationally Famous. There is also another recording called Gallows Pool.

Led Zeppelin released their IV album just eight days before they played in Ipswich, a date which was part of their 1971 UK winter tour.

Plant tells the audience at the Ipswich concert that the newly-released album was “long overdue - we had a lot of problems with it”, but IV went on to sell more than 37 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the most successful records of all time.

Several tracks from the album - Rock & Roll, Black Dog, Going to California and the all-time classic Stairway to Heaven - were played at St Matthews Baths Hall, to a crowd who had probably never heard the songs before.

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