Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for September 29th

Zep jams in Japan -- Keith Moon's drums get sold -- Jerry Lee Lewis...lives!!!

9/29/1971 (44 years ago today) - Osaka Festival Hall, Japan: it's the final performance for Led Zeppelin's first-ever tour of the Land of the Rising Sun. The show ends with an extended version of "Whole Lotta Love" during which they work in a medley of "Let That Boy Boogie", "I Gotta Know", "Twist And Shout", "Fortune Teller", "Good Times Bad Times" and "You Shook Me". Couldn't have been anything less than mind-blowing...just a hunch...Interesting that "Fortune Teller" would turn up years later on the album Robert Plant made with Alison Krauss.

9/29/2004 (11 years ago today) - An American rock 'n' roll memorabilia collector sets a world record at an auction in London, paying $215,772 for a five-piece drum kit that was custom-made for Keith Moon of The Who back in 1968 (condition unknown)...

9/29/1935 - Happy Birthday to "The Killer" -- Jerry Lee Lewis turns 80 years old today. In 1956 Jerry recorded his debut single at Sun Studios in Memphis -- "Crazy Arms" went on to sell over 300,000 in the South alone. His next single, "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On", shot him to worldwide fame. "Great Balls Of Fire" went to No. 1 in both the U.S. and the U.K.; "Breathless" and "High School Confidential" followed and Jerry appeared to be completely unstoppable with legendary live shows that drove the kids wild! Unfortunately (and not surprisingly) his career faltered when he turned 22: it was revealed that he married his 13-year old cousin and -- whacko!!! -- the downward spiral kicked in with his live performance fees plummeting from $10,000 a night to $250. Various arrests and gun-play followed; without a doubt, Jerry was the original rock 'n' roll wild man...

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