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Bill Clinton tried to broker Led Zeppelin reunion
Bill Clinton tried to broker Led Zeppelin reunion It’s a diplomatic failure at the highest level: Bill Clinton couldn’t get Led Zeppelin to reunite. The CBS “60 Minutes Overtime” webcast reported Monday that the former president was enlisted […]
Led Zeppelin’s ‘Houses Of The Holy’ Turns 40
In Not Fade Away, we take a look at the legacy of some of the greatest albums of the past few decades – some iconic, some lesser known – as they celebrate significant anniversaries. Here, […]
Crunching The Numbers On A Led Zeppelin Reunion Tour
Twenty million people tried to buy tickets to Led Zeppelin‘s lone reunion show in 2007 at London’s O2 Arena. Take a moment and let the crushing hugeness of that number sink in. For Zeppelin to […]
Led Zeppelin To Reunite? Oh, Please God.
Robert Plant Denies Being Zeppelin Spoiler; Suggests 2014 Reunion Robert Plant says he’s not playing spoiler to another Led Zeppelin reunion. The rocker tells Australia’s “60 Minutes” that surviving bandmates Jimmy Page and John Paul […]
Jimmy Page: Fashion Model
Jimmy Page has been a guitar hero for decades, but a new promotional campaign focuses more on his sense of fashion. Page and up-and-coming guitarist Gary Clark Jr. are part of the advertising push for […]
2012 Artists In Review: Led Zeppelin
As 2012 comes to a close, we’re revisiting the year’s biggest stories through the lens of some of our station’s biggest artists. They’re still one of the most popular bands ever: Led Zeppelin Status: Defunct since 1980. […]
David Letterman Talks Vikings, Hobbits With Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones
Letterman was clearly unaware of Page and Jones’ histories as session musicians before they formed Zeppelin, so Plant pointed that they’d both played on a lot of records, and joked that during that time he was working “on the blacktop” and John Bonham was stealing cars. Letterman’s response: “And had you mentioned the part about stealing cars to the Kennedy Center people?”
Led Zeppelin, David Letterman, Buddy Guy Celebrated At 35th Annual Kennedy Center Honors
Clearly, it was a departure for the Kennedy Center Honors. Now in it’s 35th year, the ceremony started out by paying tribute to cultural icons like Fred Astaire, Ella Fitzgerald and Tennessee Williams. In recent years, rock has been represented more and more at this prestigious event, with Paul McCartney, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Elton John and Bruce Springsteen all collecting the Kennedy Center medallion. But past ceremonies probably never got as loud as this year’s.
5 Things We Learned From Jimmy Page’s “Rolling Stone” Interview
Led Zeppelin and Rolling Stone magazine have always had an uneasy relationship: although the band dominated the ’70s, they were only on the cover once during that decade. And Rolling Stone didn’t always give Zeppelin’s records favorable reviews. So, it was a surprise that the band’s leader Jimmy Page gave the magazine an eight-hour plus interview in the new issue, which features a vintage Page shot on the cover.
Led Zeppelin To Appear On ‘Late Show With David Letterman’ Monday
The Robert Plant/Jimmy Page/John Paul Jones “reunion” will last at least one more day: Plant, Page and Jones will be visiting fellow Kennedy Center honoree David Letterman less than 24 hours after The Kennedy Center Honors, as they appear on “Late Show With David Letterman” Monday night.
