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Just updated with vids and photos to come!
In Rob Peter's words, OMG!! OMG!! (though not in relation to the story at hand)
Led Zeppelin is about to rock London's O2 Arena in a few hours time.
Led Zeppelin has not played a full set since 1980, the year John Bonham died after choking on his own vomit. Robbed of "Bonzo's" pulsing drums, the band decided it couldn't go on and split up on Dec. 4, 1980.
Led by its three surviving members — singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones — Led Zeppelin will be joined by the late John Bonham's son Jason on drums
Now, with an estimated 20 million fans vying for tickets pared down to a lucky 18,000 or so — including one who paid more than $168,000 for his pair — most of the rest are hoping for more tour dates.
But Plant — with his screeching, often unintelligible lyrics leading the way during the band's 12 years and eight studio albums — may be toughest of the three to be convinced that it's a good idea to go on tour.
"The whole idea of being on a cavalcade of merciless repetition is not what it's all about," the 59-year-old Page told The Sunday Times.
Priced at $250, tickets have been selling on the Internet for upwards of $2,000.
Kenneth Donnell, 25, said he paid $168,500 for his tickets from British Broadcasting Corp. radio's "Things That Money Can't Buy" charity auction last month.
"I was gutted that I was not born in the 1960s and able to see Led Zeppelin in the 1970s like my dad," Donnell told The Sunday Times.
Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (7)
at 11:44 on December 10th, 2007
this picture was not designed by me (i think it was either smallfish or jameskj)
at 13:04 on December 10th, 2007
She has been a Zep fan from way back.
at 17:46 on December 10th, 2007
Viva Zeppelin!!
at 18:14 on December 10th, 2007
They blew pretty much every band that's ever performed live straight out of the water! And they're older than my dad!!!
at 09:20 on December 11th, 2007
rock gods w/ amazing hair, back then anyways...what more can you ask for? okay...now lets find some photos&videos from the concert~~that'll be abs. fab~~~
at 10:12 on December 11th, 2007
Fantastic gig. Every bit as good as I'd hoped it would be.
at 10:33 on December 11th, 2007
from the photos, no doubt! I just heard from one of our members and he wrote that he saw the whole concert LIVE through his friend's cell-phone, in the comfort of his home computer! he couldn't make the concert, as he's in Peru!!!