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Article: Led Zeppelin finds a loud serenity
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- December 12, 2007
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Ben Ratliff The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
12-12-2007
Led Zeppelin finds a loud serenity
Byline: Ben Ratliff The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 1
Section: FEATURES
LONDON --
Some rock bands accelerate their tempos when they play their old songs decades after the fact. Playing fast is a kind of armor: a refutation of the plain fact of aging, all that unregainable enthusiasm and lost muscle mass, and a hard block against an old band's lessened cultural importance.
But Led Zeppelin slowed it down a little. At the O2 Arena here on Monday night, in its first full concert since 1980 - without John Bonham, who died that year, but with Bonham's son Jason as a natural ...