John Paul Jones played a rare solo show
John Paul Jones played a rare solo show on March 22 in Knoxville, Tennessee as part of the Big Ears music festival. Jones began the performance by playing a Wurlitzer pipe organ, rising from the…
Josh Homme ‘really wants’ to reunite Them Crooked Vultures
Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme has said he “really wants” to reform Them Crooked Vultures, the band he formed with John Paul Jones and Dave Grohl in 2009. Responding to a question…
Gibson announced a $50,000 replica of Jimmy Page’s double neck guitar
Gibson has announced a $50,000 replica of Jimmy Page’s Gibson EDS-1275 double neck guitar, the first product to be revealed from a new “multi-year partnership” between the guitar maker and Page. The guitar, which is…
The Rossminster Affair: How Led Zeppelin tried to use a Shakespearean theatre charity to avoid paying tax
Led Zeppelin’s record sales skyrocketed during the 1970s, leaving the band with a difficult problem to solve by 1978: How could the members of the band receive £3.668 million in royalty payments without giving a…
Robert Plant’s former solo band is reuniting … without Robert Plant
Four members of Robert Plant’s former band The Sensational Space Shifters are reuniting for a performance on March 6, although Plant isn’t taking part. Justin Adams, John Baggott, Dave Smith and Billy Fuller will perform…
Jimmy Page attended a fashion show in Paris
Jimmy Page and his girlfriend Scarlett Sabet attended a fashion show in Paris on March 2, according to photographs from the show and social media posts. Page and Sabet were photographed sitting on the front…
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss announced more 2024 US tour dates
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss announced 10 more US tour dates for 2024 on February 27 after the pair announced they would join the first tour leg of Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival alongside Nelson…
Jimmy Page is working with Gibson on a new series of replica guitars
Jimmy Page is working with Gibson on a new line of replica guitars, starting with his 1971 Gibson EDS-1275 double neck. The “multi-year partnership” was announced at Gibson’s new London shop on February 22, with…
The history of Jimmy Page’s Equinox occult bookshop
It was the Summer of 1974 and Jimmy Page had finally realised his passion project of opening a bookshop dedicated to occult books in London. The Equinox bookshop at 4 Holland Street, a short walk…
Jimmy Page is featured on a Yardbirds Record Store Day release
Songs featuring Jimmy Page are included on a new compilation album of B-sides by The Yardbirds that will be released on Record Store Day 2024. The new compilation album, titled “Psycho Daisies” is limited to…
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss announced their 2024 US and Canada tour
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have confirmed that they will tour the US and Canada in June and August, beginning with a performance in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 2. The pair will tour throughout June…
‘An intoxicated rock musician’: Jimmy Page’s 1995 in-flight smoking incident
The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) was notified in 1995 about an incident in which Jimmy Page locked himself in a plane toilet to smoke a cigarette and was met at Portland International Airport by a…
Robert Plant made a surprise appearance with Deborah Bonham’s band
Robert Plant made a surprise appearance with Deborah Bonham’s band on February 2, joining them on stage in Blackpool to perform “The Lemon Song”, “Money (That’s What I Want)” and “Ramble On”. Photos and videos…
Robert Plant will tour Italy with Saving Grace in October
Robert Plant will tour Italy with Saving Grace in October, with the tour due to begin on October 8 lasting until October 23. You can see a list of all of the tour dates below:…
Revealed: Led Zeppelin’s full 1968 recording contract
The historic recording contract signing Led Zeppelin to Atlantic Records in 1968 can now be read in full for the first time after LedZepNews obtained the document from a US court filing. LedZepNews has published…
Robert Plant will tour the UK with Saving Grace in 2024
Robert Plant announced a new UK tour with Saving Grace, the band he has been performing with since 2019. Starting in March, the band will perform across the UK before the “Never Ending Spring” tour…
Exclusive: NYPD files on robbery of $180,000 from Led Zeppelin revealed after 50 years
Between 1.20am and 7.30pm on July 29, 1973 a thief managed to pull off an audacious heist, opening safe deposit box 51 inside New York’s Drake Hotel and stealing around $180,000 in cash from Led…
Robert Plant didn’t announce the end of Saving Grace
In the days following the final performance on November 25 of Robert Plant’s recent UK tour with Saving Grace, a rumour spread online that Plant announced on stage that the band was now over and…
‘My jaw hit the floor’: How the original photo from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s fourth album was discovered
The morning of Saturday, March 4 started quietly for historian Brian Edwards. He was browsing the internet on his computer at home, reviewing auction listings in search of interesting Victorian-era photographs of Stonehenge. Edwards, a…
Exclusive: How Jimmy Page created a ‘faithful recreation’ of ‘Rumble’ for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Jimmy Page wanted to create a faithful recreation of Link Wray’s iconic instrumental song “Rumble” for his surprise performance at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on November 3, the two musicians…
Jimmy Page performed at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony to honour Link Wray
Jimmy Page made a surprise appearance at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in New York on November 3, performing “Rumble” to honour Link Wray’s induction. The appearance, which wasn’t announced in…
Exclusive: The story behind Robert Plant’s one-off solo performance of ‘Stairway To Heaven’
Robert Plant’s decision to perform “Stairway To Heaven” solo for the first time during a charity show on October 21 shocked many Led Zeppelin fans.“Exactly how much did Hell freeze over?” asked one forum user…
Robert Plant performed ‘Stairway To Heaven’ solo for the first time
Robert Plant performed “Stairway To Heaven” at a charity concert in the UK on October 21, the first time he has performed the song solo and the first time he performed the song since the…
How Jimmy Page tribute artist Mr. Jimmy finally found the spotlight
Is it possible to become Jimmy Page? Not literally, of course, but by obsessively collecting, crafting and rehearsing for decades until a musician resembles the Led Zeppelin guitarist in both sound and appearance. And if…
Revealed: Jimmy Page’s secret 18-year battle to reclaim his most iconic stage outfits
In the late 1980s, Jimmy Page realised that he had a problem: He no longer owned two of his most iconic stage outfits. Page’s well-known black dragon and white poppy suits were safe and sound,…
Robert Plant unveiled 4 new Led Zeppelin covers with Saving Grace
Robert Plant’s band Saving Grace resumed touring on August 24 in Slovenia and unveiled a changed setlist that includes four new Led Zeppelin covers. The band performed “The Rain Song”, “Gallows Pole”, “Friends” and “Four…
Inside the filming of Led Zeppelin at Shepperton Studios: The Genesis of the project
In July 1973, Led Zeppelin finished its ninth North American tour with a three-night run at Madison Square Garden, each show professionally recorded and shot with the latest 35mm Panavision cameras that were largely hand-held….
Robert Plant will release his first music with Saving Grace
Robert Plant will release his first music with new band Saving Grace, giving everyone who purchases a ticket to the November UK tour a digital copy of the song “As I Roved Out”. The band…
Robert Plant will tour the UK with Saving Grace in November
Robert Plant will tour the UK with Saving Grace in November, it was announced on August 15. The band will perform 13 shows across England and Wales starting on November 1, according to the tour…