LED ZEPPELIN DANCES ON AIR

"The thing about sharks is that the best shark bit never got out," Zeppelin manager Peter Grant said, "There must have been about 28 or 30 odd sharks that were caught by the band once, and they stacked them up in the wardrobe closet. So -when the maids came in, as they obviously did to check the rooms after we left, they opened the door and an avalanche of sharks came tumbling out . . ."

"At the end of the last tour, I didn't know where I was at all," Jimmy told me over breakfast at Chicago's Ambassador East Hotel. "The only thing I could relate to was getting onstage and playing, I didn't know where I was in the daytime. We had been away for such a long time - I'll probably get like that at the end of this tour too. Then you go home and you walk right into all the mundane things like bills and your head is still swimming. You walk into your house with a suitcase and start undoing it, and it's almost like being in another hotel room. I'd really like to get a lot of Afghani hangings and transform all my hotel rooms to look like mosques. It's easily done ... just get big wall hangings and lots of carpets and pile them on top of each other, and have everything candlelit. Then you're walking into something that looks inviting, as opposed to something which is so obviously temporary. My home is like that, and since I can't bring my home with me on the road, I have to do this."