Led Zeppelin scooped the Best Live act award at the Mojo Honours List Award ceremony on Monday night in London. Both Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones were in attendance and received the award jointly. Afterwards Jimmy spoke to Xfm radio. Asked if he’d tried to subsequently persuade vocalist Robert Plant to rejoin the band, Jimmy said “I’m not going to persuade anyone to do anything. It’s just like the O2, you do it in the spirit of your heart, don’t you? You either do it or you don’t.” 
Page was …

The planned June 19th show at the Fox Theatre, St Louis, has been rescheduled for September 24. Tickets for the June 19th show will be honoured for that date. In addition, a second show has been added for September 25 at the Fox Theatre. The show has been rescheduled to allow for the filming of a concert DVD.
Robert and Alison have three Nominations in the upcoming Americana Honours and Awards Show. They are nominated for Album of the Year, Song of the Year (for Gone Gone Gone), and Duo or …

This week it was reported in the Daily Telegraph that after The Foo Fighters gig at Wembley, Jimmy Page said in an interview that the band (Led Zeppelin) were ready to reunite and perform more live events. But he said that fans could have to wait until Autumn 2009 as band members had to tie up individual projects first.

After weeks of speculation, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones returned to the stage on Saturday night as special guest of The Foo Fighters at London’s Wembley Stadium. After the Foo Fighters already impressive set two hour set on a revolving ‘in the round’ stage, Dave Grohl announced “playing Wembley Stadium is an honour, and if we didn’t take advantage of this opportunity, the greatest fucking night in our band’s lives… for all 86,000 of you motherfuckers, it isn’t gonna be any other show.” Then Jimmy and John Paul Jones …

Deborah Bonham releases her debut album “Duchess” in the US on June 24 on Atco Records. John Bonham’s sister delivers 13 songs powered by her soulful voice and includes guest performances by Jason Bonham and Paul Rodgers. The album will also be available at all digital outlets and will include an exclusive new, live-in-the-studio version of “The Old Hyde Revisited,” the title track from her 2004 album.
A celebration of soul, strength and family, the album — Bonham’s third overall — stands as her finest work. She rips through 13 original …

This months Rolling Stone magazine features Jimmy Page on the cover, along side Eddie Van Halen, B.B. King and Omar Rodriguez Lopez. Inside, is the magazines top 100 greatest guitar songs of all time. Number 1 was Chuck Berry’s Johnny B Goode, followed by Purple Haze by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Crossroads by the Cream, You Really Got Me by The Kinks and Brown Sugar by The Rolling Stones. Zeppelin’s Stairway To Heaven was number 8 and Whole Lotta Love was number 11.

There are strong rumours circulating that Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham will join the Foo Fighters on stage at their June 7 Wembley Stadium gig.
A report in the Daily Star states “He (Dave Grohl) had the night of his life seeing Zep performing together after all these years and was really keen to be involved with them somehow.
“It didn’t come off for him to play with them at the time so he suggested they might like to come and do something at a Foo’s date. Robert Plant …

On June 20 Jimmy Page was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Surrey. Jimmy was made a Doctor of the University for services to the music industry. The ceremony took place at Guildford Cathedral . Whilst at the ceremony Jimmy signed a guitar to be given away in a competition at the upcoming GuilFest.
In 2003 the university officially marked the appearance of Led Zeppelin at the venue’s Great Hall in October 1968 with the unveiling of a special plaque.

The previously mentioned TBL pub meet will take place on Saturday May 31.
The venue is The Chandos Pub, 29 St Martins Lane London WC2CN 4ER , nearest tube is Leicester Square. 
See http://fancyapint.com/pubs/pub1054.html.
We will be in the upstairs bar from around 2pm.
Nothing too grand about this – it’s just a good opportunity to have a bit of an informal get together on what would have been John Bonham’s 60th birthday. I’ll also be announcing the results of the John Bonham Greatest Beats Poll – As voted via the magazine and website. …

Whitesnake are the latest band to announce they are confident of receiving an invitation from Led Zeppelin to join them on a forthcoming world tour.
In the last few months, The Cult and The Stone Temple Pilots have claimed to be lined up as support bands for a fully fledged Led Zeppelin tour and now Whitesnake have joined the list of hopefuls, with front man David Coverdale insisting they are very likely to be given a coveted place alongside the legendary band.
He told British newspaper the Daily Mirror, “I’m expecting a …