It felt like I was cheating myself, because I wasn't as relaxed as I could have been. “It was no good because we weren't ready to do it, the whole thing was a management decision. “Knebworth was useless,” he said in Led Zeppelin: The Concert File. Plant, who was unhappy with his performance, suggested that the show’s success had more to do with the scope of the night than anything coming from the stage that night. Still, the crowd – which the band reported as being 218,000 but estimates suggest it was half that figure – was thrilled. Reviews suggested that the band had suffered from the long layoff, with some publications noting that the rise of punk in the four years since they had last performed in England had made Led Zeppelin redundant. A three-song encore consisted of "Rock and Roll," "Whole Lotta Love" and "Communication Breakdown." They opened the 19-song main set with "The Song Remains the Same," closing with "Stairway to Heaven." Two songs from In Through the Out Door – "Hot Dog" and "In the Evening" – were given their world premiere. Then, after opening sets by Fairport Convention, the New Commander Cody Band, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, and Todd Rundgren and Utopia, it was time for the headliners. First, they had to shake off some of the rust, playing a couple of low-key warm-up dates at the Falkoner Theateret in Copenhagen.
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