In April 1971, the BBC current affairs show 24 Hours ran a short film about bootleg albums – then an emerging problem for the music industry – and spoke to two band managers whose names would become synonymous with the battle against illicit recordings: Led Zeppelin's Peter Grant and Pink Floyd's Steve O'Rourke.
"The latest fad to hit the pop world is bootlegging, the illegal production of records of music by top groups by backstreet manufacturers," intones the show's host, in perfect BBC English. "These illegal records are made from tapes secretly recorded at live concerts by well-known groups at big pop festivals."
