Helen Grant is digging out an LAPD jacket some US policemen gave to her father, Peter Grant, the former Soho nightclub bouncer, wrestler and taxi driver who turned Led Zeppelin into the world’s first stadium rock phenomenon. And frankly I’m surprised. The 6ft 5in Grant, who in the early Sixties hung the entrepreneur Robert Stigwood out of a fourth-floor window by his feet (“He had disgusting skinny ankles,” he recounted), and once dealt with an unscrupulous concert promoter who aimed a pistol at him by bumping the promoter backwards with his belly, was not an obvious friend of the police.
“I’ve got a necklace of Dad’s, a pair of his cowboy boots and this jacket,” says Grant, before having her photograph taken by a swimming
