Amongst the singles I was given by the DJ who lived around the corner in Blackburn South was a single by Led Zeppelin called Whole Lotta Love. I had no interest in Led Zeppelin whatsoever so it remained tucked away in a box in a cupboard for years. If anything I tried to avoid the Zep all through the seventies and was particularly dismayed when I would hear "Stairway To heaven" played everywhere during the seventies. It seemed to linger on and on. It wasn't until around 1985 when I was DJing at Rubber Soul that I finally played a Zep song going along with the fact that it was an actual sixties song being released in1969 while the Beatles were on their last legs. This was down to Ronny's influence as he would always be playing Rock'n'Roll from led Zeppelin 4 which was definitely not a sixties song being released in 1972. The first time I played Whole Lotta Love through those gigantic speakers, with the strobes and coloured lights and probably half whacked on one dollar beers, I couldn't believe how good it sounded. Especially the breakdown when we got those strobes flashing. Because we knew that guitar would come back with an explosion. And they did and the crowd went mental. By this time we were getting crowds of 400 in a room licensed for maybe 150. It was just heat and noise. It was fantastic.
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