Led Zeppelin Hotel Room

In 1977, Led Zeppelin returned to the infamous Edgewater Hotel, where nearly a decade earlier they'd committed an act of yet. The whole affair gathered traction in the mid '80s with the publication of Stephen Davis's unauthorised Zeppelin biography, Hammer Of The Gods. In it, the band's road manager, Richard Cole, says that he and John Bonham caught a number of fish from the window of their hotel room (the Edgewater being directly situated on Elliott Bay).

Getting banned for life from a Seattle hotel didn't stop Led Zeppelin from getting into trouble. Author Bob Spitz shared in "Led Zeppelin: The Biography." Despite the scandal that the press was calling "the largest-ever hotel cash robbery in New York City," the members of Led Zeppelin were hardly distressed. To them, $200,000 was a mere trifle and would hardly dent their already massive fortune.

Tuesday, July 24 1973: Led Zeppelin arrive in New York and check into the Drake Hotel Ahmet Ertegun, Peter Grant and Robert Plant photographed on The Starship on July 24, 1973 on their way to Pittsburgh. Led Zeppelin arrived in New York on the morning of July 24, flying into Newark Airport on the band's Boeing 720 plane named "The Starship". The band members checked into the Drake Hotel.

In the new book "Led Zeppelin: The Biography," out Tuesday, author Bob Spitz explores the unsolved mystery of how the band was robbed of approximately $200,000 at NYC's Drake Hotel in 1973. Led Zeppelin takes the cake for one of rock n' roll's most notorious stories. Most of the details are too controversial to recount here, but we can tell you that in 1973, the band was officially banned from staying at the hotel after it was discovered they had caught roughly 30 mud sharks from their guest room window and disposed of beds, TVs, lamps, etc.

into Elliott Bay. Years later, the. The Led Zeppelin Mud Shark story with a groupie at the Edgewater Hotel is one of the most famous in 70s rock history - did it really happen?

Perhaps, one of the bizarre chronicles that surrounded the group was also considered to be the biggest question mark in the history of rock music: In July 1973, Led Zeppelin was blindly robbed in their hotel room with a sum that totaled up to $200,000. The band was staying at the Drake Hotel in New York City, during their tour. This is also the home of the infamous Led Zeppelin mudshark incident, where members of the group and entourage "caught some 30 mudsharks and left them under beds, in closets, elevators, hallways, bathtubs and all over their rooms.

They threw beds, TVs, mattresses, lamps, drapes, china and glassware into Elliott Bay." Among other sordid.