Original color 6 x 9.5 handbill for a John Mayall concert at Colston Hall in Bristol on March 5, 1971, signed on the reverse in black ballpoint by Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones, who signs twice more in black felt tip. Collector's notations to front of handbill indicate that the signatures were obtained at the Bath Pavilion on March 13, 1971. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, light stains, overall creasing, and a repaired tear touching Page's signature. Accompanied by a letter of provenance from the original recipient, which reads, in part: "I was only 15 years old…a few bits of magical info that I remember…John Bonham arrived in a red Rover 3.5 LTR, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones together in a silver Rolls Royce, and Robert Plant in a dark Aston Martin DB5…I just walked backstage and got these beauties!" The Bath Pavilion was the sixth stop on Led Zeppelin's spring tour of the United Kingdom in 1971, a 13-show sojourn aptly called the 'Back to the Clubs Tour,' which witnessed the band performing at many of the smaller clubs they had originally played earlier in their career. On March 5th in Belfast, the same date as this Mayall handbill, Zeppelin first performed live 'Stairway to Heaven,' a song that became a fan-favorite staple at nearly every subsequent Led Zeppelin show.
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