Led Zeppelin angered Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin’s (what a long name) rich granddaughter Eva before a show in 1970. Zeppelin was a German general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships, he founded the company Luftschiffbau Zeppelin. Jimmy Page recently told the story on his Instagram page.
“On this day in 1970 I performed at the K.B. Hallen in Copenhagen, Denmark, with Led Zeppelin. 🇩🇰 We were prepared to play as The Nobs because an irate relative of the Zeppelin airship family, Eva Von Zeppelin, threatened to sue us if we used their name in her home country.”
He also shared another quote, “Then we shall call ourselves The Nobs when we go to Copenhagen, the whole thing is absurd. The first time we played we invited her backstage to meet us, to see how we were nice young lads. We calmed her down but on leaving the studio, she saw our LP cover of an airship in flames and she exploded! I had to run and hide. She just blew her top.”
In August 1968, Jimmy Page invited Robert Plant and John Bonham to join his band, the New Yardbirds, for a September tour in Scandinavia. In October 1968 they took the name Led Zeppelin, which stemmed from a humorous conversation among several musicians about their chances of going down like a lead balloon.
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