The author's exploration of high school proms reveals a surprising history of live music at these events, particularly highlighting the rarity of rock performances. While reminiscing about big names like Tina Turner and the Yardbirds at a Cincinnati prom, he learns from Rip Pelley, the student council president, that combining prom events for a rock band was innovative at the time. The recent documentary 'Becoming Led Zeppelin' underscores the cultural significance and musical transformations happening in the late 1960s, further enriching the narrative of this unique prom.
"We had two different proms, a junior prom and a senior prom, and each of them always had a typical boring orchestra. My idea was pretty simple: let's put the two proms together and get a rock band."
"The documentary 'Becoming Led Zeppelin' perfectly describes the musical and cultural contexts in which the 1968 prom took place, capturing the atmosphere of the time."
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