MUSIC NEWS - "Led Zeppelin are over!" Jimmy Page's manager has declared. After more than a year of tour and reunion rumors & reports, Peter Mensch wants the gossiping to end. "There are absolutely no plans for [the band] to continue. Zero. Frankly, I wish everybody would stop talking about it." Of course, it's Mensch who fanned the flames of rumor just this week, thanks to a BBC 6 Music interview in which he predicted a Led Zeppelin tour – and even a new record. Mensch now says he hasn't spoken to the BBC "for like four months or something", making the entire issue very confusing. It doesn't help that the BBC interview, posted on 7 January, 2009, is dated 7 January, 2008. There's nothing unclear about his latest comments. "If you didn't see them in 2007," he told Music Radar, referring to Led Zeppelin's one-off reunion concert, "you missed them. It's done. I can't be any clearer than that".
2008 was certainly the year of Led Zep speculation, after word leaked out that guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist John Paul Jones and drummer Jason Bonham, son of original drummer John Bonham, were rehearsing together. Although singer Robert Plant was public about not having any interest in a reunion; calling the rumours "ridiculous and frustrating", the other members trudged on, supposedly searching for a Plant replacement. "They tried out a few singers, but no one worked out," Mensch confirmed this week. "That was it. The whole thing is completely over now." While Robert Plant successfully continues busy with his Grammy-nominated Alison Krauss collaboration, Jimmy Page's plans are still murky. "F*ck if I know," Mensch said of the guitarist's plans. "I'm waiting to hear."
Peter Mensch and his partner, Cliff Burnstein, also manage Metallica, Muse, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers besides Mr Page.
So that's it and MNN vows to take the year off from Led Zep speculation; unless of course we hear something !!!!
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