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I was school in Droitwich in the late 70's and had the chance through a friend to meet John Bonham.

This chance came about as my school friend Mark Murphy's dad was a friend of Mr. Bonham from his youth. Anyway, Mark was one of the school's cooler members, not only due to his dad knowing Led Zeppelin and driving an large Aston Martin, but also as he raced motorcycles with John Bonham's son Jason. So I got to meet John Bonham at a motorcycle race where Mark and Jason were competing.

At the chosen time for the meeting, with some trepidation, I walked with Mark over to a black Range Rover - which somehow had two extra wheels - and said hi to Jason and his dad. A few words were exchanged and I walked away feeling quite pleased with myself.

John Bonham tragically died a year later, and I often thought about his son Jason (my age), suddenly left without his dad, more often than Led Zeppelin stopping after the drummer's death.

At the end of that summer when I met Mr. Bonham, I had tickets to go and see Led Zeppelin at Knebworth. Sadly for myself and my twin brother David, my mum decided we were too young to go and extracted the tickets from us, giving them to our older brother who went in our place with a friend.

I was one of about three hundred people who saw Robert Plant play at the Granary club in Bristol in 1981 with a band called The Honeydrippers, very shortly after Bonham's sad demise.

Alexis Corner was sitting upstairs after the show and we all popped up for a chat (those were the days).

Later that year, some friends of mine were supporting AC/DC at Donnington and one of them wore my older brothers leather jacket on stage as a gesture to us. We tried getting back stage but didn't quite make it, alas.

As AC/DC were at their peak though, I glanced round to my side to see Angus Young playing his guitar standing right next to me - he had come out into the crowd with a radio mic.

No one seemed to notice this, except me, for about a minute and it seemed he was giving me a mini concert - fantastic!

It was a funny year, culminating in giving the bassist from Diamond Head a lift to the railway station, after he had been at a gig that me and my brothers were also at.

Soon after, I interviewed the singer of Van Halen and a few more bands on BBC local radio in Bristol.

A couple of years ago my twin brother discovered by chance that Mark Murphy has been a store man in a motorcycle shop in Birmingham for 27 years; I became an architect.

Do you have any Led Zeppelin memories? If so, please email us: worcester@bbc.co.uk or hereford@bbc.co.uk