The Nobs (Led Zeppelin) : Copenhagen, Denmark 02/28/70

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 Led Zeppelin's 

1970 European Tour 

was a concert tour

 of Europe

 by the 

English Rock Band. 

The tour commenced 

on February,23rd 

and concluded on

 March, 12th 1970.

Overview

During this tour, 

the cover for the band's 

debut album 

met with controversy. 

At a February, 28th

 1970 performance

 in Copenhagen, 

the band was billed as

 "The Nobs" 

as the result of

 a threat of

 legal action

 from aristocrat

 Frau Eva von Zeppelin, 

descendant of

 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin

 creator of the

 Zeppelin aircraft, 

over use of the 

'Zeppelin' name. 

Led Zeppelin

 guitarist 

Jimmy Page 

commented to the

 music newspaper

 Melody Maker

 that 

Frau Eva von Zeppelin

 initially took issue

 during an early 

Led Zeppelin 

concert performance

 in Copenhagen

 in October 1969, 

when she tried

 (unsuccessfully)

 to stop a

 television appearance. 

The aristocrat angrily

 described the group as

 "shrieking monkeys".

As a gesture 

of good will, 

the band invited her

 to meet with them

 at a television studio.

 The meeting was 

apparently a

 cordial one. 

However,

 upon leaving the studio,

 her anger reignited

 when she saw 

the cover of the group's

 first album 

 the exploding 

Hindenburg aircraft. 

As Page recalled:

When she saw the cover

 

 she just exploded!

 

I had to run and hide.

 

She just blew her top.

Frau von Zeppelin 

felt the band's use of

 Zeppelin 

was insulting

 and dishonored 

her family name.

 As a result, 

hostility toward

 the rock group

 continued on

 their next tour 

of the country

 in early 1970

 by threat of a lawsuit, 

unless they agreed 

to change their name 

while working there. 

While Peter Grant 

(the band's manager) 

was not normally passive

 when faced with 

a confrontation, 

it was decided to

 appease the aristocrat 

by temporarily

 changing the

 group's name.

One name speculated

 in the national press

 was 

"Ned Zeppelin", 

which Jimmy Page

 found humorous.

 After some discussion, 

Grant and Page 

settled on the 

tongue-in-cheek name

 The Nobs, 

a playful pun 

on the name of their 

European promoter, 

Claude Nobs.

The controversy in

 Copenhagen

 was considered

 advantageous to 

Led Zeppelin

 early in their career, 

as the incident

 gained them 

worldwide publicity. 

The band's choice 

of names was

 widely seen as

 an expression

 of the band's 

likability and wit.

One concert 

from this tour, 

at Frankfurt 

on March,10th 

was cancelled at a 

week's notice 

as a result of 

riots having

 previously occurred 

at the venue 

following a concert

 by

 Jethro Tull.

 It was replaced by 

a gig at Hamburg.

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