LED ZEPPELIN's BONNAROO Controversy Results In Free Publicity For All-Female Tribute Band
February 7, 2008Chris Harris of MTV.com reports: It was perhaps one of the bigger music-press snafus in recent memory, and it began at midnight Wednesday, when the press release for this year's Bonnaroo festival was distributed via e-mail to various members of the media. Along with news that KANYE WEST, PEARL JAM and METALLICA would be headlining the event, the announcement further boasted that New York's all-femme ZEP tribute band, LEZ ZEPPELIN, had also been confirmed for the bill.
Months before the lineup went public, though, several unsubstantiated rumors had spread like wildfire, suggesting that other band, LED ZEPPELIN — who had recently reunited to play a gig in London — would be anchoring the festival's bill, performing their first Stateside concert in well over two decades. As a result, a number of prominent publications — including the esteemed Associated Press and the Chicago Sun-Times — erroneously reported Wednesday morning that it would be LED ZEPPELIN, not LEZ ZEPPELIN, topping Bonnaroo's roster.
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