Report: LED ZEPPELIN In Talks To Return To Belfast

December 17, 2007

Eddie McIlwaine of the Belfast Telegraph reports: Negotiations are going ahead to bring legendary band LED ZEPPELIN back to Belfast where they first played their class rock hit, "Stairway to Heaven", for the first time in public, 36 years ago.

Promoter Peter Aiken, whose late father Jim brought ZEPPELIN to the Ulster Hall in 1971, was a guest at the band's one-off comeback gig in London last week and is now talking to singer Robert Plant and the others about a return to the city where big things happened for them nearly four decades ago.

"If ZEPPELIN go touring as has been suggested I will definitely bring them on an overdue return to Belfast, as they are keen on the idea," Mr Aiken said.

"I will take Robert and Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham, son of the late John Bonham, back for a tour of the Ulster Hall where they first played that famous tune, but this time the concert would have to go on at the Odyssey Arena."

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