Jimmy Page Says Unheard Led Zeppelin Songs Coming Next Year

Jimmy Page recently said he's heading back into Led Zeppelin's vaults for the band's 50th anniversary next year, and he noted there will be some previously unheard music to help celebrate.

In a new 50-minute video for the Academy of Achievement, Page was asked about Zeppelin's golden anniversary next year, and he said, “There’ll be Led Zeppelin product coming out, for sure, that people haven’t heard, because I’m working on that. Next year will be the 50th year, so there’s all manner of surprises coming out.”

You can watch the video above.

Page remastered the band's catalog for a series of expanded reissues that wrapped up in 2015. All nine Led Zeppelin studio albums, including 1982's leftovers set Coda, came with bonus discs that collected outtakes and other previously unreleased music from the era. An expanded edition of The Complete BBC Sessions followed in 2016.

At the time the remastered reissues came out, Page said that pretty much all of the band's studio outtakes were collected on the bonus discs, but there's definitely some still available (like the epic long version of "All My Love").

In October, Led Zeppelin News reported that engineer John Davis, who worked with Page on the remasters, posted a Facebook update that said: "Today I am mostly mastering Led Zeppelin." The post was deleted, but as Led Zeppelin News notes, the Page interview was filmed on Oct. 19, shortly before Davis' post, so when the guitarist says "I'm working on that," it could refer to unearthed music he's remastering with Davis.

Right now, it's unclear whether these previously unheard Led Zeppelin tracks will be more studio leftovers, like the majority of the bonus cuts found on the 2014-15 remasters, or live songs, since there's likely plenty of unreleased concert recordings in the band's vaults.

I still remember Coda which was a mediocre collection of previously unreleased tracks. I think I'd prefer to remember the eight original studio albums...

If its unreleased studio stuff I will have to pick it up for sure. Mediocre or not I can only find out for myself by listening. B-side stuff always interests me.

"A Zeppelin product" is very vague, but I'm a Zeppelin completist, so Page has my attention - and money!

If there's something really fresh about it, I'd be interested. But if it's just rehashes of the same old same ol', I'll give it a miss. I'd have preferred Page to have turned out more original material post-Zep.

When the re-issues came out, speculation that Page even confirmed that the band's archives have been trawled and not much was left. A few unreleased tracks here and there plus remixes which were pretty similar to the final versions. I gander that whatever is being released will have to be a live compilation. Even that has been covered with How The West Was Won which most fans preferred pre-1973. There are current, unsubstantiated reports of the 1971 Japan Tour soundboards available. Anything past that would be a mixed bag given the band's physical attrition from the constant touring not to mention chemical dependencies.

...unless of course Page chanced upon a trove of more unreleased recordings. There are tracks out there but mostly bare bones run-throughs with no vocals or overdubs. IMO those are best left as is I don't think they'd garner much interest.