TODD RUNDGREN Says ROBERT PLANT Would Be Reuniting With LED ZEPPELIN For Money, Not Art

February 5, 2008

According to The Pulse of Radio, Todd Rundgren says that Robert Plant is in the rare position of being so satisfied with his current projects that a LED ZEPPELIN reunion would only be done for money. Rundgren, who performed at Britain's legendary Knebworth festival along with ZEPPELIN back in 1979, said the buzz around a ZEPPELIN reunion is ironically taking place while Plant enjoys a creative resurgence with his recent collaboration with Alison Krauss, called "Raising Sand". "Robert Plant will probably always have a gig somewhere," he said. "And the only reason for him to reunite with the LED ZEPPELIN thing is because it would just be huge money involved, I guess. But he has an opportunity to play music that he feels like. Some music that he may feel actually more akin to than what he's, I guess, 'obligated' to do (laughs) at this point with LED ZEPPELIN. Everything that he did after he left LED ZEPPELIN was an octave lower (than the ZEPPELIN songs). (Laughs) And now he's got to go back and sing and scream at the top of his lungs."

Plant and Krauss' "Raising Sand" was released last October and peaked at Number Two in the charts. The album currently sits at Number 21 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

"Raising Sand" is Plant's highest charting post-ZEPPELIN album.

At a recent press conference in Japan, Jimmy Page said that the earliest that LED ZEPPELIN could reconvene for a reunion tour would be in September, when Plant and Krauss end their series of dates to promote the album.

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