In the week when 1970's rockers Led Zeppelin played a reunion concert in London, I thought you might like to read an F0D connection :-

"Clearwell Castle, a sandstone, neo-Gothic manor house in the Forest of Dean built for Thomas Wyndham, dating from 1728, sits at the edge of the tiny village from which it takes its name. Its site is old - it was originally a Roman villa - and in the 16th century, Sir Walter Raleigh reputedly used it as a place of courtship. In this century, it has had several unlikely owners, including an estate worker who bought it, derelict, in the Fifties for pounds 2,000; during his restoration, the cornices were held up with Meccano and pyjama cord.

It has since been a hotel, a conference centre, and, in the Seventies, a fashionable retreat for rock stars to rehearse and record their music, among them Led Zeppelin, Abba, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath , Bad Company and Queen - the locals recall Freddie Mercury draped across the village war memorial.

A teenager given a beaten-up piano used by Led Zeppelin has said that learning to play her instrument was no stairway to heaven.

Emily Davies, 17, from the Forest of Dean, has been taught to play on the piano used by rock legends including Led Zeppelin, who used it to rehearse their eighth and last album In Through The Out Door in 1978.

While she might be the envy of fans who attended the band's comeback gig on Monday, she said the piano was "not the best she had ever played on".

She said her piano was "hammered" when bands, came to stay at the piano's former home at Clearwell Castle, Gloucestershire.

Her family said Freddie Mercury once had to pay for it to be repaired after playing it too roughly. "