Jimmy Page: "Zep Tour Would Happen Later This Year"

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page announced at a press conference early this morning in Tokyo that if the band were to reunite for a large-scale tour, it wouldn't happen until at least September. Page, who was in Japan promoting Mothership, cited previous commitments, most notably Robert Plant's joint tour with Alison Krauss, as the main stalling point, saying, "Robert Plant also had a parallel project running and he's really busy with that project, certainly until September, so I can't give you any news." The news rubbishes all those "Led Zeppelin headlining Bonnaroo" rumors, as well as the claims made by the Cult's Ian Astbury, who told a Cincinnati crowd his band would open for Zeppelin during their reunion tour. Zep's Robert Plant, who attended the New York Knicks game Friday night and was interviewed at halftime by MSG TV, said of Led Zeppelin possibly getting back together, "You never know what is around the corner."

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“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell | 1974

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.

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