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Article: In London, Led Zeppelin Gets a Whole Lotta Love
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- The Washington Post
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- December 12, 2007
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Everyone has a Led Zeppelin story. This is mine.
The lights in the O2 Arena have just gone down. And Led Zeppelin
-- a little blues-rock combo from the 1960s and '70s that went on
to sell more than 300 million albums and rival the Beatles in terms
of influence -- is about to to take the stage for its first full
concert in 27 years. I am on the floor a mere 15 yards from the
stage at Monday night's benefit show for the Ahmet Ertegun Education
Fund (in honor of the co-founder of Atlantic Records, Zeppelin's
record label, who died last year).
Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones stride onstage,
joined by Jason Bonham, son of their original drummer, John Bonham,
whose death in ...