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Mar 19, 2010 Updated Mar 22, 2010

A rare Led Zeppelin recording has been unearthed at a UK car boot sale.

The bootleg copy of the band's 1971 gig in Ipswich was snaffled by Zep enthusiast Vic Kemp for less than five bucks.

"It must have been recorded by someone standing at the front with a microphone" Says Kemp "You can hear Robert Plant talking to the audience quite clearly."

No official recordings of the gig were ever made or released, while only a handful of patched-together bootlegs are in existence.

Kemp's copy, which is a recording of the whole concert, features Zep classics Immigrant Song, Whole Lotta Love, Stairway To Heaven, Rock & Roll and Black Dog.

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