{"id":331258,"date":"2025-12-05T03:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/331258\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T03:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:26:09","slug":"youtube-causes-unofficial-live-releases-to-look-like-a-new-official-led-zeppelin-live-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/331258\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube causes unofficial live releases to look like a new official Led Zeppelin live album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has placed unofficial releases of a live Led Zeppelin performance at the top of the band\u2019s profile on the site, causing days of speculation that the band has officially released more live material.<\/p>\n<p>On December 1, YouTube began featuring multiple videos containing audio of Led Zeppelin\u2019s March 21, 1970 performance in Vancouver, Canada in the \u201cFor You\u201d section at the top of the band\u2019s official, verified YouTube profile.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who watched the videos was shown that they were uploaded by Led Zeppelin\u2019s official YouTube profile, making them seem legitimate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-03-at-11.59.49-am-1024x539.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9156\"  \/>The top of Led Zeppelin\u2019s verified YouTube profile as seen on December 3, showing unofficial live audio tracks at the top of the page (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCaKZA66vM_TUpetUNohmR0A\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube \/ Led Zeppelin<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The videos weren\u2019t created or uploaded by Led Zeppelin, however. Instead, the songs are unauthorised releases seemingly published by a Dutch company.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Rapallo, the administrator of Led Zeppelin\u2019s official forum, <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.ledzeppelin.com\/topic\/32067-official-%E2%80%98led-zeppelin%E2%80%99-youtube-channel-releases-unconventional-bootleg-recordings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed in a forum post on December 2<\/a> that Led Zeppelin didn\u2019t release the live tracks. \u201cNot authorized. It happens sometimes,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The unofficial videos claim to have been released by Triple Vision Record Distribution, a Dutch electronic music label. Another section of YouTube\u2019s automated description for the videos claims the material\u2019s copyright belongs to The Media Champ, a Dutch business that releases unofficial live recordings made by rock groups.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube\u2019s decision to feature the unofficial audio tracks at the top of Led Zeppelin\u2019s profile has caused days of online confusion about their legitimacy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficial recordings from ZEP\u2019s 1970-71 Canadian tour, originally broadcast on FM radio, have been officially released on the ZEP Official Channel,\u201d a post on the band\u2019s official forum claimed, \u201cthis is a major event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/ledzeppelin\/comments\/1pdyr8o\/official_new_live_relase_coming\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Reddit user asked<\/a> whether an official Led Zeppelin live album was on the way. \u201cThey arent showing on their videos section in the channel, whats going on with that,\u201d they asked.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube was approached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Led Zeppelin News on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LedZepNews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ledzepnews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> to stay up to date on news as it happens. 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LedZepNews uses paid Amazon referral links to earn commissions to cover its costs.\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YouTube has placed unofficial releases of a live Led Zeppelin performance at the top of the band\u2019s profile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-331258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}