Led Zeppelin – Takes Flight, For One Night Only
Billboard.com reports: Legendary rock combo LED ZEPPELIN is reforming, but for one night only. The British band will play a one-off show at London’s 22,000-capacity O2 arena on Nov. 26 as part of a tribute to Atlantic Records co-founder and chairman emeritus Ahmet Ertegun, who died last December. The band recorded for Atlantic its entire career.
THE WHO’s Pete Townshend, former ROLLING STONE Bill Wyman, FOREIGNER and PAOLO NUTINI will also perform at the event. Profits will benefit the Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund, which provides scholarships to universities in the United States, United Kingdom and Ertegun’s homeland, Turkey.
Tickets costing £125 ($254) will be allocated on a lottery basis through the Ahmettribute.com web site.
Confirmation of the show, putting an end to several months of speculation, came at a press conference today (Sept. 13) at the O2 when the three surviving members of LED ZEPPELIN, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, confirmed they would reunite onstage for just the third time in 27 years. The drummer for the evening will be Jason Bonham, son of the band’s original drummer John Bonham, who died from a heart attack in 1980.
The concert will follow the release of a new Atlantic/Rhino two-disc, 24-track best-of set, “Mothership,” due Nov. 13 in the United States.
Page, Plant and Jones initially reformed with GENESIS‘ Phil Collins and CHIC/POWER STATION sticksman Tony Thompson sharing drum duties for a performance at Live Aid in Philadelphia in 1985. In May 1988, Jason Bonham joined the three originals for another ‘one-off’ reunion at an Atlantic Records 40th anniversary concert in New York.
Plant and Page teamed in 1994 for an MTV special and subsequently toured globally and released two albums. Jones has also released two solo albums, although his post-ZEPPELIN work has largely concentrated on production and arranging.
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$254! Who the fuck do they think they are Black Sabbath?
I’d pay $254 to see Led Zeppelin before I paid $254 to see Black Sabbath.
Has anybody that comes to this site even actually seen Led Zeppelin live? I saw Robert Plant solo a few years ago and it was an amazing show. I can’t even fathom how badass a Led Zeppelin show would be.
Seen Black Sabbath twice and yeah, they were kick ass and I do prefer Sabbath’s music over Zep’s for the metal standpoint, but I didn’t think they were the best band I’d ever seen by any means. I think seeing a Led Zeppelin show would be legendary
zep > sabbath
I think it sad. I saw Page & Plant 4 times when they toured and liked em fine, but I never paid more than 50 bucks. 254 is a clearly a rip-off; there are great shows/tours out there for 20 to 50 dollars.
you’re paying more for the novelty if you haven’t seen them than you are for the show/performance. unless they resurrect bonham’s corpse, 254 bucks is a joke.
hey if they want to pay $254 to see one of the sloppiest live guitarist around, its their money. id rather see the greatness of he that is him MR TONY IOMMI!
id let page take my ass flower
i’d pay it. i’ve seen Iommi twice, whats your point?
My point is that if i would to pay that kind of cash id rather see the best not the most overrated
Zeppelin deserves all the credit they get, they may be overplayed but it’s because they have some of the best rock songs ever written. And Page is NOT sloppy live, check out the BBC Sessions or How The West Was Won if you don’t believe me.