The session was wiped from the BBC archive, but was recorded by a fan off the radio and has since been restored by Page.
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Among the three tracks from the session is a performance of Sunshine Woman – the only recording of the song in existence. “Led Zeppelin was a band that would change things around substantially each time it played
We were becoming tighter and tighter, to the point of telepathy”.
A set from the then-fledgling rock giants was broadcast on the BBC’s World Service as part of Alexis Korner’s Rhythm and Blues programme.
A session Led Zeppelin did for the BBC in 1969, thought to have been lost forever, has been recovered from a fan’s recording.
The release comes almost 20 years after a 2CD release of The BBC Sessions which contained the majority of these tracks before they were remastered and without the new rarer recordings.
Interestingly, the new collection also includes the first broadcast of Stairway To Heaven at the BBC Paris Cinema, Lower Regent Street London on April 1 1971.
The album, which is slated for a September 16 release, covers recordings made for the BBC between 1969 and 1971, and will be renamed The Complete BBC Sessions.
The other rarities featured in the new collection are two different previously unreleased versions of the classic songs “Communication Breakdown” and “What Is And What Should Never Be” that demonstrate the evolution of the band during the period the collection encompasses.
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Led Zeppelin became one of the biggest-selling rock acts in history, officially splitting up in 1980 shortly after the sudden death of drummer John Bonham. The remaining members reformed for a 2007 concert in London, with Bonham’s son Jason playing drums.
