Led Zeppelin plays full set for first time since 1980
After that performance, Led Zeppelin really must go on tour.
The reunited rock ‘n' roll legends were superb Monday in their first full concert in nearly three decades, mixing in classics like “Stairway to Heaven” and “Black Dog” with the thumping “Kashmir” and the hard-rocking “Dazed and Confused.”
The band's three surviving members - singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones - were joined by the late John Bonham's son Jason on drums.
And it was the newest member of the band that was given the honor of kicking off the sold-out benefit show, pounding out the beat before the others joined in on a near-perfect “Good Times Bad Times.”
After the lights went down at the O2 Arena, newsreel footage of the band arriving in Tampa, Fla., for a 1973 performance was projected onstage. Then Bonham jumped in, soon to be joined by the rest.
They followed that with “Ramble On,” and with it destroyed all rumors that the 59-year-old Plant could no longer reproduce his trademark wail.
With his button-down shirt mercifully buttoned up, Plant roamed the stage belting out hit after hit, rarely giving his critics anything to work with.
But Page showed he still has the touch as well. Besides ripping out his patented riffs all night, he put the spotlight on himself when the band played the bluesy “In My Time of Dying.”
The 16-song set list produced few surprises. They did many of the songs expected, such as “No Quarter” and “Trampled Under Foot,” and the entire show lasted a bit more than two hours, mainly because of encores “Whole Lotta Love” and “Rock and Roll.”
Death of Quiet Riot singer ruled overdose
The death last month of Kevin Dubrow, lead singer for the 1980s heavy metal band Quiet Riot, has been ruled an accidental cocaine overdose.
Clark County coroner spokeswoman Samantha Charles confirmed the cause Monday after toxicology results were received Monday.
Dubrow was found dead Nov. 25 at his Las Vegas home. He was 52.
Quiet Riot was perhaps best known for its 1983 cover of “Cum on Feel the Noize.” The song, featuring Dubrow's powerful, gravelly voice, appeared on the band's album “Metal Health” - which was the first by a metal band to reach No. 1 on the Billboard chart.
Julianne Hough signs country record deal
Two-time “Dancing with the Stars” champ Julianne Hough has signed a record deal with Universal Music Group and is expected to release a country single in early 2008.
Hough, 19, will be on the company's Mercury Records label, said Universal Music Group spokeswoman Amber Williams. She's expected to begin recording the album in Nashville early next month with producer David Malloy, Williams said.
- From wire reports
The reunited rock ‘n' roll legends were superb Monday in their first full concert in nearly three decades, mixing in classics like “Stairway to Heaven” and “Black Dog” with the thumping “Kashmir” and the hard-rocking “Dazed and Confused.”
The band's three surviving members - singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones - were joined by the late John Bonham's son Jason on drums.
And it was the newest member of the band that was given the honor of kicking off the sold-out benefit show, pounding out the beat before the others joined in on a near-perfect “Good Times Bad Times.”
After the lights went down at the O2 Arena, newsreel footage of the band arriving in Tampa, Fla., for a 1973 performance was projected onstage. Then Bonham jumped in, soon to be joined by the rest.
They followed that with “Ramble On,” and with it destroyed all rumors that the 59-year-old Plant could no longer reproduce his trademark wail.
With his button-down shirt mercifully buttoned up, Plant roamed the stage belting out hit after hit, rarely giving his critics anything to work with.
But Page showed he still has the touch as well. Besides ripping out his patented riffs all night, he put the spotlight on himself when the band played the bluesy “In My Time of Dying.”
The 16-song set list produced few surprises. They did many of the songs expected, such as “No Quarter” and “Trampled Under Foot,” and the entire show lasted a bit more than two hours, mainly because of encores “Whole Lotta Love” and “Rock and Roll.”
Death of Quiet Riot singer ruled overdose
The death last month of Kevin Dubrow, lead singer for the 1980s heavy metal band Quiet Riot, has been ruled an accidental cocaine overdose.
Clark County coroner spokeswoman Samantha Charles confirmed the cause Monday after toxicology results were received Monday.
Dubrow was found dead Nov. 25 at his Las Vegas home. He was 52.
Quiet Riot was perhaps best known for its 1983 cover of “Cum on Feel the Noize.” The song, featuring Dubrow's powerful, gravelly voice, appeared on the band's album “Metal Health” - which was the first by a metal band to reach No. 1 on the Billboard chart.
Julianne Hough signs country record deal
Two-time “Dancing with the Stars” champ Julianne Hough has signed a record deal with Universal Music Group and is expected to release a country single in early 2008.
Hough, 19, will be on the company's Mercury Records label, said Universal Music Group spokeswoman Amber Williams. She's expected to begin recording the album in Nashville early next month with producer David Malloy, Williams said.
- From wire reports
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