Led Zeppelin were set to return to North America in 1980 and tour in support of their then latest release In Through The Out Door.  Peter Grant made an announcement on September 11, 1980 that their North American tour would commence on October 17, 1980 in Montreal Canada with the tour concluding in Chicago Illinois on November 15, 1980.  As part of promoting the tour dubbed “Led Zeppelin The 1980’s Part 1” four advertisements were run in local newspapers in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit.  Fans eagerly awaited in Chicago on September 25th for the Tribune to be delivered to various locations so they could complete and submit the ticket order form and obtain tickets for Led Zeppelin’s return to the Windy City.

The ticket form newspaper advertisement ran in the early edition as well as the later edition of the newspaper.  The difference can be seen by the two different section numbers at the top of each of the newspaper pages.

Below are examples of both editions.  The first image of section 2    9 is a full complete newspaper page advertisement example.

Please note the below image of the Section 1   23 was a newspaper page that had the bottom half of the page removed and the ticket form utilized.  However, an overlay was done to make the page appear to be complete (for reference purposes).

Due to the tragic passing of their friend and drummer John Bonham the tour never took place and all concert dates were cancelled.

Description by: Robert Musco

Photograph(s) by: Robert Musco

From the collection of: Robert Musco