Burn Like a Candle is a bootleg recording of the English rock band Led Zeppelin performing at the Los Angeles Forum on June 25, 1972.
[1] It was originally released on CD format in the 1990s by the Smoking Pig label.
[3] The album title is derived from a comment Led Zeppelin singer, Robert Plant, delivered from the stage during this concert, in which he mentioned that their fifth album did not yet have a title: "It's not gonna be called Led Zeppelin Five, it's got every possibility of being called Burn That Candle" (The album, released the following year, would ultimately be entitled Houses of the Holy).
For many years this audience recording (including subsequent bootleg versions with various packaging) was all that existed from this show.
There are versions of songs not included on How the West Was Won, such as "Thank You", "Communication Breakdown", and the entire acoustic set.