OK, so it’s 1977 and you’re a music journalist, a huge Led Zeppelin fan, and you’ve been granted access to their inner-sanctum. Here’s your ticket onto Caesar’s Chariot, the band’s customised Boeing 707 jet. We ask that you please fasten your seatbelts, secure all baggage underneath your seat and pay heed to the following instructions lest John Bonham punch you in the face.
Classic Rock’s Steven Rosen had been badgering Led Zeppelin’s label Swan Song Records for an interview for almost a year when he was finally given the green-light as their ’77 tour of the US kicked into gear. A limo was sent to fetch Rosen from the airport as he touched down in Chicago to join the jamboree, and inside was Led Zeppelin’s publicist Janine Safer. Allow Rosen to take up the tale:
