Robert Plant’s forthcoming new album, Band Of Joy was premiered at a press launch in London on June 1st.  Robert made a brief appearance at the launch – commenting on the album he said  ”Band of Joy’ was an appropriate title for an amazing group of people who had nothing to lose,”
The track listing includes  Angel Dance, Silver Rider, I’m Falling in Love Again, You Can’t Buy Me Love, Monkey, Satan Your Kingdom, Must Come Down and Even This Shall Pass Away. The album is due for release in September.
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Just listened to the John Bonham Story on BBC 6 Music. A Brilliantly put together documentary with moving and perceptive comment from a variety of family, friend’s and fellow musicians.
Dave Grohl’s no frills narration allowed the story to flow easily. From John’s early days there were comments from Bill Harvey, Dave Pegg and Black Sabbath’s Bill Ward.  Robert fondly recalled his first meeting -‘’You are pretty good but you would be better with me as drummer’’, and the hilarious story when the door handle fell off the Band Of Joy’s …

John Paul Jones is a guest on the Shaun Keaveny show over on BBC 6 Music this morning starting at 7am. This is a prelude to the John Bonham Story hosted by Dave Grohl which will be aired later today at 3 pm on the same station. And to finish off this Bank Holiday Monday John Paul Jones and last week’s Jimmy Page interview on the Lauren Laverne show will be repeated at half past midnight.

 
TBL 26 is now out on the streets – all subscribers’ copies and orders up to today have been distributed. UK subscribers should now have received their copies and overseas orders are on their way. This issue has already reached out to Zep fans in the UK, USA, Australia, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, Indonesia, Israel, Malta, France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Russia. I know – I packed every one!
The message needs to keep spreading as I know there are many fans reading this that have yet …

The band formed by Jason Bonham, Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonamassa, and Derek Sherinian will be known as Black Country Communion. The have now established a website at http://www.bccommunion.com/
A You Tube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/bccommunion
And a My Space page at http://www.myspace.com/bccommunion
Their debut album is set for release in September to be followed by a tour in 2011.
Jason Bonham and Robert Plant linked up for an interview conducted on The Paul & Young Ron Show” which airs on several terrestrial radio stations in Florida. Big 105.9’s Web site streams the show live. The …

TURNING THE CLOCK BACK 35 YEARS
SUNDAY MAY 25 2005
TICKET FIRST TIER FRONT STALLS BLOCK 19 ROW DD SEAT 35
So the party was nearly over. Got up at 1pm and on the train at 5. Very busy around Earls Court – the unofficial programmes and posters were doing brisk business.
We had an excellent view  for this last swan song – a straight face on view on the back tier front stalls. I remember vividly Alan Freeman’s introduction ”We are here today because you and I have great taste…”.
There was a sense …

On May 31st BBC 6 Music will air an hour long special on John Bonham, which would have been his 62 birthday. The John Bonham Story will be presented by ‘Nirvana’, ‘Foo Fighters’ and ‘Them Crooked Vultures’ star Dave Grohl and will also feature exclusive new interview material from Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and Carmine Appice, as well as the key industry figures and family and close friends.
The makers of the programme reveal the following :
The story begins with John Bonham’s boyhood obsession with rhythm, beating his mother’s pots and …

Ahead of BBC 6 Music’s John Bonham documentary due to be aired May 31st, Jimmy Page was interviewed live on Lauren Lavern’s  BBC6 Music show on the morning of May25th. Talking of Bonzo with much affection, Jimmy said:
‘’John Bonham was an extraordinary musician –  head and shoulders above anyone around him. He had a definite vision of the drums, and how they should be played and how they would fit in with a band. It’s without doubt that his technique was  beyond everybody else’s, and that’s why he’s so looked …

TURNING THE CLOCK BACK 35 YEARS
SATURDAY MAY 24 1975
TICKET BLOCK AA ROW B SEAT 8
Ticket Price £2.50
My friend Dec had queued up for these tickets for this one over night when they went on sale in March. Seven of us went from Bedford (Hi Dec,Tom and Phil!) We went shopping in Oxford Street where I brought a pair of hip mirror shades for the Lorret holiday to follow. Then it was over to Earls Court in the afternoon – one of our crew  Gary Felts had made a top hat …

TURNING THE CLOCK BACK 35 YEARS
FRIDAY MAY 23 RD 1975
TICKET: GALLARY BLOCK 98 ROW F SEAT 6
Ticket Price £1.00
So imagine waking up on a Friday morning with the prospect of over nine hours of live Led Zeppelin in store over the next three days.
Talk about the weekend starts here!
But that was the treat in store as I went to catch the train on Friday May 23rd for EC gig 3. Earlier I’d had a passport photo taken in a booth  in town suitably dressed in Earls Court T shirt – …