Jane Munro of ABC North Coast NSW is reporting that 100 never-before-seen photographs of LED ZEPPELIN's 1972 concert in Sydney will be on display in a photo-aid fundraising exhibition at the Lismore Regional Gallery is Lismore, New South Wales, Australia.

The images are the work of north coast resident, Ted Harvey, who photographed LED ZEPPELIN's concert, performed in front of the largest crowd he had ever seen at a Sydney rock concert.

"The official number was 28-thousand, I think that's the number of tickets they sold but there was more like 36-thousand people there," he said. "They played the Sydney Showground for three hours solid, there were no other bands on and they just blew everyone away."
Harvey says it was a different era so it was easy to get media access to the concert but he was surprised at how few other professional photographers were there.

"I just showed my press pass and drove around through the showground around to the back of the stage and walked around the front," he said. "I remember the first impression I had was how few press photographers were there, in fact I couldn't see any of the usual guys that I saw and I thought 'you beauty!'

"It was a very inspirational time for a lot of people and it was the day before uni started so there were a lot of students there that I'm sure have gone on and are now corporate lawyers and all sorts of professions 33 years later," Harvey said.

Robert Smith, now an education lecturer at Southern Cross University in Lismore, was an 18 year old scaffolder at the time of the concert.

"I didn't have much money. The group of six of us got together, we'd had the tickets for two weeks or so beforehand, we were able to brag to our friends and relatives in our country towns. We knew this was really going to be something else and when they came out and started with the 'Immigrant Song' off the third album, well we knew we had done the right thing by going."

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