The d.j. was spinning Atlantic hits from the past — Aretha Franklin, Rufus Thomas — and the walls were lined with posters for "Mothership," the new Led Zeppelin greatest-hits compilation.
To a certain extent, this is what happened to the the Led Zeppelin greatest-hits album that came out last year.
In its statement of objections it noted that Warner Music charges about the same price in Europe for a Led Zeppelin greatest hits album called "Early Days and Latter Days" as Universal charges for "The Eminem Show," by the rap star Eminem.
For the next couple of months Zeppelins would hit towns across the east - Southend, Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds were all attacked and six more people were killed.
A case which claims that the opening chords to Led Zeppelin's biggest hit were in fact stolen from a 1967 song Taurus, by the band Spirit, will be heard by a jury in May, a US judge has ruled.
The album also yielded Led Zeppelin's biggest hit with the track "Whole Lotta Love".
Topped rather predictably by Led Zeppelin and their 1969 hit Whole Lotta Love, the rest of the top 10 features the likes of Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns N' Roses, AC/DC's Back In Black, Money For Nothing by Dire Straits and Deep Purple's Smoke On The Water.
With a set centered around the theme of "Stairway to Heaven," they also did a cover of Led Zeppelin's eponymous 1971 hit, which was met with overwhelming applause.
The PA plays its usual mix of pop, hip-hop and classic rock for batting practice – sandwiched in between a string of Top 100 hits, the Orioles hit to Led Zeppelin's When the Levee Breaks as Buck Showalter gives a somber pre-game presser in the bowels of the stadium – and in the press box, we murmur and mutter and tap away.
The latter led Free, a four-piece blues band who had more chart hits than Led Zeppelin but broke up in disarray after only three years.
