A rare Led Zeppelin single the band ordered to be destroyed has turned up on Antiques Roadshow worth £1,000

From the Newshound archive · first published 5 October 2026.

A man brought the forbidden 7-inch single to Caerphilly Castle during filming of the BBC programme, having received it free of charge from a record shop owner in the early 1970s who was clearing out a bag of unwanted stock. Expert Marc Allum told him the record "shouldn't really exist" — 500 copies were pressed but withheld from UK sale after Led Zeppelin's manager Peter Grant ordered the entire batch recalled and destroyed. The band maintained a strict rule against singles, insisting all their music appear on albums.

The owner said he had been searching for records to build a disco collection when the copy was handed to him at no cost.

Allum explained that the pressing stemmed from a dispute between the band, management and the record label, with Led Zeppelin having never agreed to a single release.

Despite the recall order, a small number of copies were never returned — and the surviving single is now estimated to fetch around £1,000 at auction.