Led Zeppelin bash huge success
p2pnet news | Music:- Everyone and his brother and sister was at the Led Zeppelin Ahmet Ertegun Memorial concert at Britain’s O2 Arena, from all accounts.
And ‘everyone’ included supermodel Naomi Campbell who, according to Fox News, was in a luxury box, “getting mugged”.
As the show ended, she was seen coming out of the VIP exit and, “having a fight with one of the security men,” says the story.
“Someone stole my handbag,” she announced. “It had two phones in it!” and hHaving made her complaint to security, she, “exited through the VIP section while thousands upon thousands of music fans swarmed over her”.
Other names listed as showing up were Mick Jagger, the “entire Presley family – Priscilla, Lisa Marie, Riley and son Ben – Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl and Foreigner’s Mick Jones.
“Maybe because it was a one-off show and the group was nervous, there was little humor,” and, “The connection to the audience was more corporate than personal,” and, “It may have been a coincidence, but in the audience was Gary Arnold, the senior entertainment officer of Best Buy, the huge American electronics chain,” the story adds.
Meanwhile, “More than one million people from more than 50 countries entered an online lottery for 14,000 tickets put up for the general public at $250 a pop before the system crashed,” says the Canadian Press. “Millions more were turned away.
“One Toronto fan paid $2,500 for a scalper ticket the day before the show.”
But, “That was pocket change compared to the $170,000 paid by a rich Scot for a pair of tickets at auction.”
At a rehearsal a few weeks ago, “Plant was heard to complain about the challenges of divining a voice of a 20-year-old from the body of a 60-year-old man,” says Times Online.
Apparently, though, “He needn’t have worried.
“Older equipment may take a while to get going, but once the requisite valves heat up, the quality is unmistakeable.”
And finally, “Ahmet Ertegun, the dedicatee of the concert, would have been satisfied, sure as he was of the centrality of southern black music to American culture,” says the New York Times.
“Ertegun, who died last year, signed Led Zeppelin to Atlantic Records; the show was a one-off benefit for the Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund, which will offer music students scholarships to universities in the United States, England, and Turkey, his homeland.”
Also See:
Fox News – Naomi Campbell Mugged at Zeppelin Concert, December 11, 2007
Canadian Press – Led Zeppelin send their faithful into frenzy, December 11, 2007
Times Online – Led Zeppelin: the mothership of all reunions, December 11, 2007
New York Times – Led Zeppelin Finds Its Old Power, December 10, 2007
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December 11th, 2007 at 9:37 am
A freind of Mine went to the concert with her Husband she gets back in the US today so it will be good to see what she thought of the concert .
December 11th, 2007 at 9:58 am
Cool! Get her to post something on it!