Thirty years ago, they were part of one of the greatest rock bands ever stronger and more outrageous. Today, the three surviving members of Led Zeppelin to qualify for the high passes on buses in London. Their faces are covered with gray hair.
But these aging rock legends that dominated in 1970 with his loud singing, sexually charged, and the scene of chaos, are tested for more than three decades after the band broke up.
Tickets sell out quickly, ahead of October 17 release of the film festival, the film version of Zeppelin reunion concert acclaimed 2007 at the O2 Arena in London. The concert will also be released on CD, DVD and Blu-ray (Swan Song / Atlantic Records, $ 19 - $ 45) on 19 November, with vinyl to follow on December 11. Critically despised in its heyday, the group will receive the honor Kennedy Center, one of the most prestigious awards from the cultural, December 1.
"We were the worst. If the excess in every way," says Zeppelin bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, 66 So acceptance "is very nice. We moved, but moved back."
In an exclusive interview with USA Today, Jones, singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page rejection of talks on a trip, can not say that if we gave a big day and remember fondly the meeting in 2007.
It was a team of "destiny ... for the performance," said Page, 68 "It's in our DNA to play the music."
After the Zeppelin was founded in 1968, powerful riffs the band on guitar, drums and mixing lyricism and brutality blunt captivated generations. In its heyday, the group played the American public by 70,000 screaming fans. Zeppelin has sold 111.5 million albums in the United States, so the fourth best-selling artist of the American team, after The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Garth Brooks.
The band also opened up new opportunities for their horrific acts, the use of cocaine to the vandalism at dabbling with underage groupies. Self-destructive image was sealed when Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, 32, died after an alcohol binge in 1980, which led to the collapse of the team.
In subsequent years, two of the three survivors of the Led Zeppelin fell in projects that will shock and disappoint fans banging their heads.
Jones wrote an opera based on the game in 1907 by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. He visit the UK next month with the Norwegian Supersilent experimental group, traveling in a poor "van" - the band splitter on the back, a few seats in front - which is far from the ship, a luxury jet flew Zeppelin concerts in 1970.
Does he miss his day to pamper treatment Zeppelin? "Yes, of course," says Jones. "But I'd rather do that and play music that I like to start with the supergroup artificial situation."
Plant, 64, is so far from strayed Zeppelin almost like Jones, making an unlikely collaboration with bluegrass star Alison Krauss. His album Raising Sand won five Grammy Awards in 2008, including album of the year and has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Now the plant is a South American tour with his own band, which combines blues, world music and rock. Zeppelin has left his day, when he had to fight to get back on man by the 2007 reunion concert, a tribute to the late Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records, who signed the band to his first recording contract.
"This attitude that went with some of these songs is something that I remember," says Plant. "But this is a different place. To go back there and that attitude ... it was difficult equation."
This page is quieter than the career of his former team members.
"I love playing live, and I'm going to play live at the moment," he says sadly. "I hope to play live at this time next year." He appeared in public only sporadically in recent years, representing Great Britain at the closing ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and playing with his old friend Roy Harper in London in honor in 2011.
They went their separate ways, but his 2007 concert showed that the substance is not dead. In the show, two hours, the trio, along with Bonham's son, on drums, Jason gave a strong performance, full of energy that made critics swoon, but the three played together in public only a few times in the past 27 years.
"Playing with Zeppelin is a little like riding a bike," says Jones. "When we are in a situation, many came back."
Plant, meanwhile, said his performance was colored by "fear fatigue .... It must have been good, because we had all worked so hard," she says. "And the expectation that big."
The band never intended to release a recording of the concert, but when it turned out that another meeting is unlikely to satisfy fans need has become more urgent.
"It turned out that the (images), you must go out, because there will be something else, some other shows," says Page.
"I see," said Jones, the meeting. "Robert has changed his style, and he does not sing as I have already."
But the team will regroup in December, this time in Washington, DC, to receive the Kennedy Center medal. Even Plant, which rose to 2005 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony Zeppelin, this time displayed. He wants to shake hands with President Obama, whose musical preferences even admires Obama in 1970, he went to Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire.
"He needs to go back and taste a little better," says Plant, not realizing that one of his bandmates common tendency president.
"Lead Zeppelin sessions when we recorded, I played almost exclusively Stevie Wonder," says Jones. "Earth, Wind & Fire, too, I'm afraid."
Their reputation is safe, but tell Zeppelin could be moved to the insignificance of if today.
"We would like to end up in the attic or something XFM" alternative station in the UK, says Plant. "It will be very difficult to get Kashmir (eight minutes-plus Zeppelin classic) in high rotation. Was a long time ago."
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