{"id":289458,"date":"2025-11-29T09:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/289458\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T09:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:23:09","slug":"how-belfast-man-got-his-hands-on-led-zeppelins-harmonica-at-historic-ulster-hall-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/289458\/","title":{"rendered":"How Belfast man got his hands on Led Zeppelin&#8217;s harmonica at historic Ulster Hall gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Belfast rock fan recalls how he got his hands on Robert Plant\u2019s harmonica the night Led Zeppelin first played Stairway to Heaven at 1971\u2019s famous Ulster Hall gig\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Colin Doonan from East Belfast, holds his Led Zeppelin albums, Colin was at a Led Zeppelin concert in 1971 and caught a harmonica from the band and sold it the next day for \u00a35.  Picture by Peter Morrison\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6686b913-886f-4441-904e-e1b391f58b1e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Colin Doonan from East Belfast, holds his Led Zeppelin albums, Colin was at a Led Zeppelin concert in 1971 and caught a harmonica from the band and sold it the next day for \u00a35.  Picture by Peter Morrison<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was one of those great Belfast nights that went down in folklore. One of the greatest rock bands at The Ulster Hall as they debuted the song that would go on to be one of the most famous in music history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On a March night in 1971 Led Zeppelin struck the first chords on Stairway to Heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belfast rock fan recalls how he got his hands on Robert Plant\u2019s harmonica the night Led Zeppelin first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,117320,128,56,117319,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-289458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-mark-bain","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-ulster-hall","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}