A donation of £26 million has been paid to Oxford University following Led Zeppelin‘s 2007 reunion performance in memory of the late Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun.
Tickets for the Zeppelin show were priced at £125, with all proceeds going towards the Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund. Now, Ertegun’s widow Mica has officially donated the money, which amounts to one of the biggest handouts in the university’s long history, according to the Daily Mail newspaper.
“For Ahmet and for me, one of the great joys of life has been the study of history, music, languages, literature, art and archaeology,” Mica has said.
“In these times, when there is so much strife in the world, I believe it is tremendously important to support those things that endure across time, that bind people together from every culture, and that enrich the capacity of human beings to understand one another and make the world a more humane place.”
This info from the Daily Mail? $40 Million from one concert? Must be wrong as LZ would need to tour to raise this kind of money. The wealthy widow must have chipped in the bigger amount.