We reported to you recently about a variety of rumours about Led Zeppelin and the band reuniting with former frontman Robert PLant. Those rumours have been quashed by Plant and he has further added more comments on why he declined to rejoin the highly successful band.
“The reason that it stopped was because we were incomplete, and we’ve been incomplete now for 28 years. And no matter what you do, you have to really guard the discretion of what you’ve done in the past and make sure that you have all the reasons in the right place to be able to do something with absolute, total conviction.”
“We’ve been incomplete now for 28 years. To visit old ground, it’s a very incredibly delicate thing to do, and the disappointment that could be there once you commit to that and the comparisons to something that was basically fired by youth and a different kind of exuberance to now… it’s very hard to go back and meet that head on and do it justice.”
The band were planning on getting a new lead vocalist to fill the rather large boots that Plant left behind but the manager of Jimmy Page was reported saying the band is now over back in January 2009.
Plant has been doing a lot of work with Alison Krauss recenelty and a secong duet album is in the cards.
Following up on the rumoured reunion and Led Zeppelin tour for next year, Robert Plant has released a statement to advise that he will NOT be reuniting with the band but wished them every success with their project.
We reported to you earlier today that Plant was rumoured to have given in to the band and had agreed to embark with them on the world tour planned for next year. There was even a statement from an apparant close friend of the band being quoted in The Sun stating the band were overjoyed with his decision to reform and commit to the tour.
Plant has since released his staement which is posted in the Led Zeppelin forum and also on his official web site putting the rumours to rest in just a few sentences.
Plant, who is currently touring with Alison Krauss stated on his site:
“It’s both frustrating and ridiculous for this story to continue to rear its head when all the musicians that surround the story are keen to get on with their individual projects and move forward. I wish Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham nothing but success with any future projects.”
There have been some rumours going around than Led Zeppelin are going to be reforming to do a world tour next year. They did a one off concert in December 2007 but front-man, Robert Plant, did not want to pursue any further projects with the band.
In recent talks about the tour, a close friend of the band told The Sun,
“Plant realised he couldn’t face the thought of not being involved. The band were over the moon when he told them.”
The British rock band formed in London in 1968 and have released 9 albums up to 1982 and have sold over 300 million albums in worldwide sales. They have even been quoted as “the heaviest band of all time” and also “the biggest band of the 1970’s”.
We can be sure that the tour will be amazing and tickets will go extremely quick and who knows how much we will have to fork out for one but it will surely be worth the cost.
Keep checking back here for more info and we’ll let you know as soon as tickets become available.
