The first colour photographs to emerge of Led Zeppelin performing in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 26, 1973 are today published online by LedZepNews.

The 10 images were taken by photographer Charles Todd and are the first colour photographs to emerge from the performance.

Earlier this month, LedZepNews published the first ever photographs from the show after we and LedZepFilm purchased prints of black and white images taken by journalist David Proctor.

Todd’s photographs give us another glimpse of the show, confirming our assessment that Proctor’s images were of the Salt Lake City performance. Todd’s shots show the band’s unusual stage outfits in greater detail, including Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones wearing T-shirts.

Todd shot the photograph using an Asahi Pentax 35mm camera and a Lentar 70-210 zoom lens on Kodak Ektachrome 64 ASA film from his seventh row seat, he told LedZepNews in an email.

“I was standing on my chair, hand holding (no tripod) at 1/4 second! Tried to wait untill they stopped moving,” Todd wrote.

Photographing the Led Zeppelin show in 1973 happened a week before Todd attended a US Navy bootcamp which led to his career as a Navy photographer.

“I was staff photographer at the Explosive Ordnance Disposal School in Indian Head, Maryland, Nas Andrews AFB, Combat Camera Group, San Diego Ca, and a F14 squadron,” Todd said.

“It was fun to be able to photograph many dignitaries [at] Andrews AFB, the Pope, Chairman Ping [the] first digitary from China, the hostages coming back from the Iran Embassy takeover and more,” he explained. “I hope all the fans of Led Zeppelin will like the photos. They bring back a lot of great memories.”

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Here is the uncropped version of the photograph featured at the top of this article: