Jimmy Page Doesn't Rule Out New Led Zeppelin Music, Tour

Even though their highly anticipated, Web site-crashing reunion concert is still one month and nine days away (we're counting), Jimmy Page is already considering what the future might hold for the reformed Led Zeppelin. Is new music in the forecast? "Look, I'd be really surprised if there wasn't - you know, I mean I just know the way we are," Page said, "we're musicians...as we're playing we'll probably be coming up with all manner of things." This would appear to run counter to Robert Plant's dismissal last month of the idea of an all-out Zeppelin tour, but Page is hedging his bets: "Basically we are concentrating on this show. That's where all the energy is going. I mean, who knows? But one step at a time."

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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