Led Zeppelin News

Legendary music producer Joe Meek’s private recording collection is to be auctioned off.
The thousands of tapes include unheard recordings of Tom Jones, Jimmy Page and David Bowie as singer and saxophone player with the Konrads.
The collection of over 5,000 recordings has been added to the It’s More Than Rock And Roll sale to be held at London’s Idea Generation Gallery on Thursday September 4. Their estimated value is $600,000.
Ted Owen, Managing Director of the Fame Bureau, said: “To describe Joe Meek as a rock and roll icon is an understatement - he was one of the most important figures in the industry for nearly two decades and these tapes provide a vicarious passage of the 1950s and 60s.
“Furthermore, custodian of the Joe Meek archive, Cliff Cooper has honoured the collection by keeping it intact all these years and cherished for British musical posterity.”
Joe Meek became an icon of the recording industry with his experimental techniques in the 50s and 60s and was most famous for The Tornados’ 1962 hit Telstar which won him an Ivor Novello Award.
Nick Moran is currently directing a film of Meek’s life, called Telstar, starring himself and Kevin Spacey.

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Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant pissed off an entire beach of Europeans last night when he parked his boat right in the middle of a bay 10 minutes before the sun went down for Ibiza’s ‘best sunset of the year’.

To protest their obstructed view, photographers shouted and waved angrily, but unfortunately for them Rob was too lost on his acid trip to notice.

At least his friends got to enjoy it!

http://pacificcoastnewsonline.celebuzz.com/2008/08/robert-plant-is-oblivious.html

Led Zeppelin musicians Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham have been working on new material.

Drummer Bonham told a radio station in Detroit that the songs could be destined for a new Led Zeppelin album.

Writing new material has been “on the cards” since the band’s one-off reunion show in London last December, he told 94.7 WCSX.

But lead singer Robert Plant has not been involved in any of the sessions, he added.

“At the moment, all I know is I have the great pleasure to go and jam with the two guys and start work on some material,” he said.

“When I get there [in the studio] I never ask any questions. If I get a phone call to go and play, I enjoy every moment of it.

“Whatever it ends up as, to ever get a chance to jam with two people like that, it is a phenomenal thing for me. It’s my life. It’s what I’ve dreamed about doing.”

He added: “Lots of politics [would need to] get ironed out [before an album could be made].”

Led Zeppelin played their first concert in 19 years in front of nearly 20,000 fans at London’s 02 arena in December.

Their two-hour set opened with Good Times Bad Times - the first track of their debut album.

Original band members Page, Plant and Jones were joined on stage by Jason Bonham - the son of their late drummer John.

Thanks to Stuart

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