The Return Of LED ZEPPELIN
David Fricke of Rolling Stone magazine reports: On June 10th of
this year, at 2:30 in the afternoon, the surviving members of LED
ZEPPELIN guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant and bassist
John Paul Jones met in a rehearsal space to play some songs. It
was the first time they had been in the same room with instruments
since their rough four-song set at LED ZEPPELIN's 1995 induction
into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. This time, the stakes were
higher: to see if they had the strength, empathy and appetite to
truly perform as LED ZEPPELIN again, in their first full concert
since the death of drummer John Bonham in 1980.
The location of the rehearsal, somewhere in England, is still a
zealously guarded secret. In interviews a few weeks before LED
ZEPPELIN's December 10th show at London's 02 arena a benefit
tribute to the late Ahmet Ertegun, the co-founder of Atlantic
Records Page, Plant and Jones claim they can't remember the date,
what they played or even how the idea of reuniting in honor of
Ertegun, a close friend and mentor during and after the band's
years on the label, came up. They all agree that playing together
again, after so long, was a momentous, emotional occasion.
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