
- Robert Plant is adamant that Led Zeppelin’s November show won’t turn into a tour: “There’ll be one show and that’ll be it,” he told Uncut. “We need one last great show because we’ve done some [reunion] shows and they’ve been crap.” Plant, who released an album with Alison Krauss yesterday, said Zep never considered touring to blow away bands like the Who and the Rolling Stones: “We weren’t in competition with anybody. We were at that time the biggest band in the world. There wasn’t anyone else.”
- The Rolling Stones will re-release 1975’s retrospective Rolled Gold next month as Rolled Gold+ (with twelve additional tracks) in three formats: a download version, an environmentally friendly pop-up case and on USB, making it the U.K.’s first USB album.
- Radiohead’s cover artist, Stanley Donwood, told BBC Radio 4 that the band ditched his In Rainbows image in a “last-minute decision” when the album was only released digitally. Donwood said his creation was “a rainbow, but it is very toxic, it’s more like the sort of one you’d see in a puddle.”
- Police are treating a series of weekend attacks at Georgia’s Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts as hate crimes after a noose was found around the neck of a bronze statue of Tupac. Police have a man in custody and are continuing to investigate.
- Britney Spears‘ backup dancers on the Video Music Awards were never paid in full. Spears’ management usually compensated the dancers, Us Weekly reports, but their payment may have hit a glitch after Spears was dropped by the Firm just days after the VMAs.

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