[2007.06.28] Robert Plant Shoots Down Zeppelin Reunion Rumors
June 28th, 2007Robert Plant has shot down reports that LED ZEPPELIN will reunite for a one-off memorial concert in honor of their late record company boss.
A report was published earlier in the week suggesting that Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones will re-group alongside John Bonham’s son Jason for a special concert in memory of Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun in London.
A source was quoted as saying, “Page, Plant and Jones spoke and agreed to do the memorial concert. They are waiting for a definite date.
“And no one can quite believe it, but during discussions about the concert they all gave the green light to a tour if it all does well and they don’t all fall out.
“It has been hoped for and denied for years. But this is the closest they have ever come to a reunion tour. The feeling is that this is going to happen next year.”
Speaking at a press conference for the upcoming Rockwave festival, which is scheduled to be held June 29, June 1 and June 3 in Athens, Greece, Plant insisted that he hadn’t heard anything about the rumored ZEPPELIN reunion and jokingly added, “If there was one, then there wouldn’t be enough doctors to support it!”
Ertegun died in December 2006 after seven weeks in a coma following a fall at a ROLLING STONES concert.
