Jaw-dropping Led Zeppelin news to start the new year with – Jimmy Page’s manager has confirmed that the remaining members of the band are planning to reform. But they’re going to replace Robert Plantand they’re going to take this new act on tour and into the studio to record a new album.
From the report – which I just read on NME – Peter Mensch (a far more reliable source than The Sun) told BBC 6Music that Page and Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones enjoy working together, and that John Bonham’s son Jason seems to be more than happy to sign on as drummer.
This could be the dictionary definition of ‘awesome’, Leona Lewis joining Jimmy Page onstage at the Olympics for a barn-storming rendition of Whole Lotta Love.
It looks like Jimmy’s got tired of the short hair he’s been sporting for the last few years. Is it worth reminding you that we’re among the biggest Led Zeppelin fans on the planet, so just watching Jimmy strut his stuff onstage brings on an attack of the goosebumps!
In what Idolator described as an Aguilera-like performance, Leona Lewis did an awesome performance of the song. OK, it wasn’t quite Robert-Plant-squeezing-lemons quality, but it cements Lewis’s position as a class act. And doesn’t she look hot?
Maybe it’s time to start some rumours about Lewis taking Plant’s place for a reformation of Led Zeppelin? Perhaps we’ll get that world tour after all…
Although the best bit by far was Beckham launching a ball into the audience and knocking over some Chinese audience member!
Just as the Led Zeppelin concert was looming closer, Jimmy Page has only gone and broken his finger pushing the gig back by roughly a month.In frustratingly vague news, we don’t know how Page managed to break the finger or indeed which finger he broke, but at £125.00 per ticket, you’d think the public deserved to know!
Sensibly, Jimmy’s taking the time to allow the fracture to heal properly instead of blasting ahead. The recovery should take a few weeks, and he’s expected to resume rehearsals on 23 November.
Living Legend
In other news, Jimmy Page is to receive Classic Rock magazine’s living legend award (Alice Cooper took the award last year, fact fans!). The ceremony is being held in London on Monday. Page is expected to be bringing his broken finger along with him. Maybe then we’ll get an indication of what finger is broken!
