Rare Led Zeppelin record that band wanted destroyed unearthed on ‘Antiques Roadshow’

A rare record from Led Zeppelin, which the band ordered to be recalled and destroyed, has been found on Antiques Roadshow. READ MORE: Led Zeppelin – rank the albums The rarity was found as the hit BBC show headed to Wales for a recent episode. When at Caerphilly Castle, a man brought in a copy of a 7-inch single, and told antiques expert Marc Allum about how he managed to get his hands on it. The 7-inch contained their hit single ‘Whole Lotta Love’, which was certified gold in the US and had a rare single pressing of 500 copies made by Atlantic Records. Led Zeppelin had a strict no-single rule throughout their career, and only wanted their music to be released as full albums. As a result, their manager Peter Grant ordered all copies of the single to be recalled and destroyed. Not all people returned the singles, however, and the man who brought his copy in on Antiques Roadshow had his copy since the early ‘70s. “I was looking for records to start a disco and out of his bag came a couple of records and he went ‘you can have those’,” he told Allum, to which the expert said that the vinyl was only ever released in the US and “shouldn’t really exist” in the UK. “There are a lot of myth...