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Thursday's Quote of the Day

10:41 UK time, Thursday, 17 December 2009

"It's the sort of sound that turns me on - but not for daytime radio" - ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ audition panellist when Led Zeppelin applied to play on Radio 1 in 1969.

The verdict was yes when the fledgling band applied to record a session for John Peel's show Top Gear. But despite playing the now classic tracks Dazed and Confused and Communication Breakdown, not all the panel were keen. In documents released from the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ archive, one said Plant, Page et al were too derivative - an "English blues-group, longing to sound like Muddy Waters but failing".

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