Baby Led Zep Wins School Talent Show!
On This Day in Madhouse History – May 22
On this day many years ago, a young Led Zeppelin performed their first gig at their elementary school talent show.
It was at Epsom County Pound Lane Primary School, where little Robert Plant, little Jimmy Page, little John Paul Jones & little John Bonham won the talent show and wowed the school audience.
Little Led Zep, played 3 songs: “Whole Lotta Milk”, “Good Times, Nap TImes”, & “Candy Store Rock”.
During “Whole Lotta Milk”, Plant first improvised “Juice runs down my leg” because he actually spilled his orange juice that morning at breakfast.
Headmaster Jay Smyth was not amused by Plant’s sexual overtures and risque language and shut the show down even though the crowd was demanding an encore. Smyth shut off the lights and ushered the children to safety.
Some of the more sensitive children had thrown up, and some were crying. In a sign of things to come, some of the younger female teachers were dancing and swooning themselves.
Little Led Zeppelin won the school talent show on this day, in our not too distant past. In doing so they would change the world and the course of music forever.
