Led Zeppelin News

The legendary Robert Plant is coming this summer to Bulgaria for a huge live show, officials from the Kavarna town municipality announced on Thursday.

The former Led Zeppelin lead singer will stage his concert on July 6 in the near seaside town of Kavarna.

The concert will start at 8 pm on the Kaliakra stadium.

This is the second time Plant will come to Bulgaria after he visited the country in 1998 with another of the Zeppelins, guitarist Jimmy Page.

A series of photographs taken of Led Zeppelin’s much-celebrated Sydney concert in the summer of 1972 by local photographer, Ted Harvey, has become the foundation of a Led Zeppelin World Tour exhibition.

The exhibition, being launched at the Lismore Regional Gallery on Wednesday April 4, also includes artworks from well-known national and local artists. Gallery Director, Steven Alderton says the exhibition is impressive.

“Robert Plant particularly was impressed and he said to Ted over the years, these are the best photos ever taken of Led Zeppelin.

“They are really definitive and capture Robert Plant and Jimmy Page…the whole band right through the concert.”

Read more at ABC.NET.AU.

According to MaltaStar.com, Robert Plant, the legendary frontman of the 1970s rock band LED ZEPPELIN, is one of the international artists that will play live during the Malta Blues Wine Festival in July.

Robert Plant is expected to be in Malta for two days, and will be playing at an as-yet-undisclosed location between July 16 and July 18. A spokesperson for Classic Rock Promotions told MaltaStar.com that the legendary singer, who started his solo career in the early Eighties following the breakup of LED ZEPPELIN in 1980, is expected to give Maltese rockers the experience of a lifetime, with a setlist that will include all-time classics such as “Whole Lotta Love”, “Stairway to Heaven” and “Kashmir”.

Read more at MaltaStar.com.

Definitive 200. Where would you be without them? The Definitive 200 is a list put out by the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame of the 200 ranked albums that every music lover should own… celebrating classic recordings by favorite iconic and contemporary artists.

The Untitled album ranked #4, Led Zeppelin II ranked #47, Houses Of The Holy ranked #51, Physical Graffiti ranked #93 and Led Zeppelin ranked #165.

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Thanks to Dawn

A Panel from Q Magazine has voted Robert Plant 8th greatest voice of all time. Elvis Presley was voted #1, followed by Aretha Franklin, Frank Sinatra, Otis Redding, John Lennon, Marvin Gaye, Kurt Cobain, Robert Plant, Mick Jagger and Jeff Buckley.

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LEGENDARY Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page is to give evidence in a Scottish court against a man accused of bootlegging the band’s live concerts.

Page will appear as a witness at Glasgow Sheriff Court in the case against businessman Robert Langley, of Buckingham.

Langley, 59, was arrested at a record fair in the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, Glasgow, two years ago, with £26,000 of allegedly pirated CDs.

Among the massive haul was a range of previously unreleased live material by Led Zeppelin, including a concert at Knebworth, England, in 1979.

Investigators also seized unreleased work by Bob Dylan, Robbie Williams and the Beatles.

Page, 63, flew up to Scotland and spent a day with investigators from the British Phonographic Institute, identifying the material and confirming they were recordings of the band’s work. He will give evidence about how badly the band has been affected by bootlegging in the last 30 years. Read more…

Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of AEROSMITH, Roger Daltrey of THE WHO, Robert Plant of LED ZEPPELIN, Tommy Lee and Vince Neil of MÖTLEY CRÜE, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons of KISS, Rob Halford of JUDAS PRIEST, Ronnie James Dio, and Dee Snider of TWISTED SISTER are among the classic rock legends featured in the first 30-second public service announcement that will be launched on April 1 by VH1 Classic as part of its first-ever pro-social initiative geared towards raising awareness about autism. The announcement of the campaign’s launch was made today (March 13) to cable programmers and affiliates at a luncheon during Forum 2007, the Cable Television Public Affairs Association’s annual conference.

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Interesting article about Jason Bonham, that highlights his career as a drummer from appearing in Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains The Same movie, up through VH1’s SuperGroup and his current gig as drummer in the band Foreigner.

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Calling it the planet’s last, best hope for saving rock music, the Guardians of the Protectorate of Rock announced Monday that they would take the extraordinary step of unleashing a never-before-heard Jimmy Page riff, hidden for decades in a mythic, impenetrable vault.

“We who believe in the immortality of rock took a vow 30 years ago that we would never release this incredibly powerful force unless we faced a Day of Reckoning and that day has come,” said Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, one of the chosen few who helped forge the Secret Vault to Save Rock and Roll, at a press conference in the Welsh highlands. “Just look at the pop charts, and you shall know I speak the truth.”

Read the complete story at TheOnion.com

Note from Jeff: This is satire and not to be taken seriously.

An article about a guy meeting Jimmy page at the Gatwick Airport in London.

Read more at bloggingstocks.com/2007/03/10/led-zeppelin-and-that-listerine-smile/