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Article: Plant, Page keep Led Zeppelin flying Middle-aged rockers do their best to live up to their fans' expectations
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 11, 1998
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It's funny.When audiences go to view a Paul Newman movie
nowadays, no one expects to see the cocksure rebel of "Hud" or "Cool
Hand Luke."
But when people go to a Robert Plant and Jimmy Page concert, they
very much hope and even expect that the two men are going to build a
stairway to their Led Zeppelin youth. It's nearly 30 years since
the first Zeppelin album. Page may be 54 and Plant's a couple months
from 50.
Doesn't matter. They want the sonic grandeur of 1971 all over
again.
Faced with such expectations Wednesday night at the Bradley