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LED ZEPPELIN's Backstage Rider Demands: Tea, Coffee And An Ironing Board

December 10, 2007

Daily Mail reports that while LED ZEPPELIN's middle-aged fans turned up in London for tonight's reunion concert with thermal underwear, warm coats and vacuum flasks, the band — whose consumption of drugs, alcohol and groupies was the stuff of rock legend — showed that the days of excess were well and truly behind them.

Their backstage rider asked for tea, coffee — and an ironing board. The strongest drug Robert Plant, 59, Jimmy Page, 63, and John Paul Jones, 61, consume tonight will be caffeine.

Concert promoter Harvey Goldsmith said: “They are much older now obviously and are very low maintenance.

“They've asked for cups of tea and coffee. We'll have some beer and a bottle of wine for them backstage but they have said they require very little. They are extremely focused and have been rehearsing. They know that a lot of people have been waiting a long time for this gig - it's going to be a great concert."

More than one million people applied in a lottery for one of the 20,000 seats. Tickets have been snapped up for over £1,000 on sites such as eBay — but buyers are warned they could be turned away.

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