At the start of 2013, Robert Plant appeared to be open to a Led Zeppelin reunion this year, telling 60 Minutes in Australia he had ‘nothing to do in 2014’.
Since then though, and with the band’s back catalogue beginning to be re-released in remastered form, Plant has become ever more emphatic in his denial of any live comeback being on the cards, leading Jimmy Page to tell the New York Times he is ‘fed up’ with the frontman’s conflicting messages.
“I was told last year that Robert Plant said he is doing nothing in 2014, and what do the other two guys think,” Page remarks. “Well, he knows what the other guys think. Everyone would love to play more concerts for the band. He’s just playing games, and I’m fed up with it, to be honest with you. I don’t sing, so I can’t do much about it.”
“I definitely want to play live,” he continues. “Because, you know, I’ve still got a twinkle in my eye. I can still play. So, yeah, I’ll just get myself into musical shape, just concentrating on the guitar.”
Led Zeppelin’s last, rare live outing occurred in 2007 at the O2 in London in memory of the late Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun .