“I dragged George Harrison in to listen to it on the way back from a Beatles session. He didn’t get it at all”: When the first Led Zeppelin album confused a Beatle — and was ignored by Mick Jagger

Led Zeppelin.

On 19 August 1968, in a cramped basement room in Gerrard Street, in the heart of London’s Soho, the four members of the band that would become Led Zeppelin played together for the first time.

They were there to rehearse for the Scandinavian tour, due to begin on 7 September.