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Will LED ZEPPELIN Tour Again, Or Is It Just A Trial Balloon?

December 10, 2007

According to the Los Angeles Times, Randy Phillips — chief executive of AEG Live, the concert promotion company that runs O2, the London arena where LED ZEPPELIN will be playing in a tribute to Ahmet Ertegun, co-founder of Atlantic Records — said Friday (Dec. 7) that he was headed from Los Angeles to England to "meet with Bill Curbishley, the band's manager, and hand him a huge offer" for a possible tour.

"The reality is, ZEPPELIN has not agreed to a tour," Phillips said. "They want to play this show and see how it goes, how it feels, and then go from there. There's nothing firm yet, but maybe afterward."

ZEPPELIN is the best-selling hard rock act ever, with nearly 110 million albums shipped, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.

The group hasn't toured since 1980 (the year Bonham died),and their last full concert dates in the United States were in 1977.

The surviving members did perform a short set at the industry banquet for their 1995 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

How much appetite is there for a ZEPPELIN reunion? Industry sources compare the likely box office to the recent record-setting road runs by THE ROLLING STONES or U2, but it may be even more.

Organizers of the online ticket lottery for the Ertegun tribute said 20 million requests came in for a show with 16,000 seats.

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