Led Zeppelin News

A music pirate who was convicted after Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page gave evidence against him has been jailed for 20 months.

Robert Langley, 58, was arrested in 2005 after being caught with a massive haul of bootleg CDs and DVDs at a record fair in Glasgow.

The seizure by the British Phonographic Industry included £11,500 of counterfeit Led Zeppelin material.

Mr Page told Langley’s trial that he did not sanction the items to be sold.

Langley, from Buckingham, had originally denied the charges against him.

However, after Mr Page gave evidence against him at the trial in Glasgow Sheriff Court last month he changed his plea to guilty by admitting three trademark and two copyright infringements.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6970651.stm

U.K.-based journalist Neil Daniels’ book on Robert Plant’s solo career, “Robert Plant: Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page & The Solo Years”, is due for publication via IMP in February next year. According to Daniels, “Plant’s solo career has never granted a full rock bio. From his debut album ‘Pictures at Eleven’ to the present day… it’s all in there.”

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Legendary guitarist Jimmy Page, is to be honored as the Living Legend at this year’s Classic Rock Roll of Honour, Classic Rock magazine’s third annual award show, which this year takes place on Monday, November 5, 2007 at London’s prestigious Landmark Hotel. Elsewhere in the awards, one of the most headline-grabbing, eyebrow-raising rock events of the year, Keith Richards snorting his father’s ashes, gets its very own nomination in the “Event of the Year” category alongside the reformation of both GENESIS and THE POLICE, AEROSMITH’s critically-acclaimed Hyde Park Calling performance and LOU REED’s historic Berlin concert.