In the mid-’90s, an MTV Unplugged album and tour of Page and Plant got a little better.Bonham began touring as Led Zeppelin Experience in 2009, before changing the name a decade later at Led Zeppelin’s request. Again, it left everyone with a bad taste in their mouths. In 1988, for an Atlantic Records anniversary party, the surviving Zep members suited up with Jason Bonham (John’s son) on drums. At Live Aid (1985), the results were ugly. Meanwhile, attempts to recreate the magic fell flat. The obvious answer to why Zeppelin never regrouped was the first reason the band gave (and Plant repeated): No one could ever replace Bonham. Led Zeppelin perform live on stage in Germany in March 1973 (L-R Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham). There’s no such thing as Led Zeppelin without John Bonham. “My suggestion to you is to make sure you wear the right clothes when they kill you,” he told an Esquire reporter who asked. In the coming decades, he’d describe the concept of a Zeppelin reunion as “impossible,” “deceit,” “a compromise,” and “quite sluttish.” By 2015, he had no patience left. “Never, ever!” Meanwhile, Plant had launched a very successful career on his own. “No one could ever have taken over John’s job,” he said. For whose convenience? Nobody’s, really.”īut Plant also thought in practical terms of the drummer he played with before Zeppelin was even a band. “There’s no purpose for keeping things going. “There’s certain people you don’t do without in life, you don’t keep things going for the sake of it,” he said of Bonham and the band. In 1982, upon the release of his first solo record, Plant began answering the first of about a million questions he’d receive on the subject from reporters. (Bonham was that good.)Īfterward, the surviving members ( Robert Plant, in particular) began carving out their solo careers. That statement couldn’t have surprised too many fans. It didn’t say they were done as musicians it didn’t say there was no chance they’d ever play together but it basically said there would be no Zeppelin in the future. We wish it to be known that the loss of our dear friend, and the deep sense of undivided harmony felt by ourselves and our manager, have led us to decide that we could not continue as we were. As a band, Led Zeppelin released this statement: In the first week of December ’80, fans heard the message many had been expecting. Robert Plant is joined on stage by Jimmy Page at the ‘Knebworth ’90’ Concert on JUNE 30th, 1990. Robert Plant, in particular, never liked the idea. However, it’s never happened, and never really had a chance of happening. Rumors of a reunion tour have popped up every year since 1980. Yet that left three legendary musicians in their prime. tour.Ībout two months later, Zeppelin said it was no more. The band quickly announced it had canceled its U.S. Certainly, the surviving members of Led Zeppelin didn’t think there was any decision to make.
You simply don’t replace someone like that and head back into the studio. However, the loss seemed immeasurable because of one thing: Bonham reigned (then and now) as rock’s greatest drummer. This one was devastating for so many reasons. In September 1980, tragedy struck once again when Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham passed away at 32. A decade late, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison died within a year of each other. In 1959, the world lost Buddy Holly and a 17-year-old Ritchie Valens in a plane crash. Between 1950-80, there were too many rock ‘n’ roll tragedies to count.
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