Last year's Led Zeppelin reunion concert wasn't the end for Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham — but it looks like it was for Robert Plant. The three musicians have been holding rehearsals with singers including Aerosmith's Steven Tyler (it didn't go well, one source has heard) and possibly Myles Kennedy, lead singer of Alter Bridge (who has covered Zep songs onstage and has a formidable vocal range). But Page wants to make one thing clear about the new project. "Whatever this...

John "Bonzo" Bonham, drummer for Led Zeppelin since the group's inception twelve years ago, was found dead in bed on September 25th after a night of drinking at Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page's house in Windsor, about twenty-five miles outside of London. Bonham, whose "physical exhaustion" reportedly caused the cancellation of one German gig on the band's recent European tour, was thirty-two years old. Following his death, Zeppelin reportedly called off a North American tour that was to have...

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Every song you played at Led Zeppelin's reunion show in London last year started with or was based on a killer riff. What makes a great Zeppelin riff?
It is something you know instinctively. It has energy and attitude. There's sex in it as well. It was definitely my concept to have a riff-based band. My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties —...