Robert Plant recorded a Tiny Desk concert for NPR on the afternoon of October 31 which has now been released online. In the video, Plant and his band Saving Grace perform songs including “Gallows Pole”…
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Robert Plant has successfully registered his feather symbol from Led Zeppelin’s fourth album as a trademark in the US, almost a year after he applied for it. LedZepNews revealed in March that lawyers working for…
Robert Plant plans to tour the US again in March, he told Chicago radio station 93XRT on November 13. When asked when Plant might return to the US, he said: “We’re coming back to America…
For almost three weeks, Robert Plant’s Wikipedia article included a false claim that Plant had directed and narrated a Netflix series about his life. From October 26 to November 12, the widely read Wikipedia article…
In May, an auction listing claiming to be a rare, unheard soundboard tape of Led Zeppelin’s May 7, 1973 performance in Jacksonville, Florida emerged in the UK.British auction house Ewbank’s in Surrey, was selling a…
Led Zeppelin’s music has been reissued 64 times, data analysis carried out by the UK newspaper The Times and verified by Tight But Loose editor Dave Lewis has shown. The newspaper used Discogs to analyse…
“Becoming Led Zeppelin” jointly won the award for best music documentary at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards, it was announced on November 9. The film won the category in a tie with the film “Sly…
A new piece of music titled “The Call” written by John Paul Jones will have its premiere in Helsinki on November 10, it has been announced. The new music by Jones seems to be a…
“Becoming Led Zeppelin” and Robert Plant were not nominated for any Grammy Awards, it was announced earlier today. LedZepNews reported last month that the filmmakers behind “Becoming Led Zeppelin” had been publicly campaigning for the…
LedZepNews has found more information about the four poems John Paul Jones selected to write a new song cycle around, revealing new details about his long-planned opera project that will premiere in London on January…
Robert Plant was interviewed on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on November 4, talking about his new album Saving Grace. Colbert asked Plant if his Led Zeppelin band members picked up on his references…
Horselunges, the former home of Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant, is struggling to sell after more than two years on the market despite dropping its asking price by a total of £1.5 million. The large…
Robert Plant will be a guest on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on November 4, Paramount has announced. Michelle Obama is the other guest scheduled to appear on the show that evening. The announcement…
A gong owned and used on stage by John Bonham sold at auction in New York on October 24 for $101,600. The Paiste gong was used by Bonham for Led Zeppelin shows such as the…
Robert Plant’s latest band Saving Grace made their live debut in the US on October 30 when they performed in Wheeling, West Virginia to start their US tour. The band peformed a series of Led…
“Mr. Jimmy”, the feature-length documentary film about Jimmy Page tribute artist Akio Sakurai, will get a worldwide Blu-ray release. The film had an initial Blu-ray and DVD release in Japan on July 2, but will…
Robert Plant’s record label is promoting his new song “Everybody’s Song” to voters in the upcoming Grammy Awards, seeking a nomination for the track. Nonesuch Records, which released Plant’s new album Saving Grace last month,…
“Normally you smash a bottle of nice champagne on the side of a ship, but they won’t let me do that,” Hard Rock Park CEO Steven Goodwin said as he prepared to smash a blue…
Led Zeppelin’s new Record Store Day re-release of the 1975 promotional 7″ single of “Trampled Underfoot” will be limited to 6,100 copies, it has been announced. Led Zeppelin announced the single’s release a third time…
Chris Dreja, the musician and photographer who performed as a bass player and rhythm guitarist in The Yardbirds, has died at age 79. Jimmy Page paid tribute to Dreja online, writing on Instagram: “I heard…
The archives are shut. The unreleased songs remain unreleased. Remastering the soundboard tapes is a pipe dream. It’s 2025 and Led Zeppelin is somehow less culturally relevant than Elvis Presley.Fans of Presley have this year…
Hours after announcing the upcoming release of a replica of the “Trampled Underfoot” promotional single, Led Zeppelin deleted the announcement from its website along with all social media posts about it. At 3pm UK time…
Led Zeppelin will release a replica of the 7″ promotional single of “Trampled Underfoot” for Record Store Day on November 28, the band announced today. The original promotional single, which was released in 1975, included…
The names of four poems that John Paul Jones has written music to have been released online, shedding new light on his song cycle project which seems to be about the role of women in…
Robert Plant said in a new interview that the second album he recorded with Band of Joy will “see the light of day” but stopped short of confirming any concrete plans to release it. Speaking…
Robert Plant will tour the UK with his band Saving Grace in December, it was announced today. The band will start the “Ding Dong Merrily” tour with a performance in Portsmouth on December 8. The…
A 1957 Gretsch Chet Atkins 6120 electric guitar once owned by Jimmy Page was sold at auction for a hammer price of £100,000 on September 9. The guitar was famously given away in a 1974…
Robert Plant said in a new interview that it was “really nerve-wracking” being the frontman of Led Zeppelin. Speaking to “The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe” on BBC Radio 2 on September 3, Plant explained…
Led Zeppelin’s upcoming Live E.P. was mastered by Felix Davis, the son of mastering engineer John Davis who worked with Jimmy Page on Led Zeppelin’s most recent remasters. A LedZepNews reader got in touch to…