Two opions about the concert:
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"(...)Page had publicly vented his displeasure. "I see Jimmy had a bit of a go at me for not being there," Plant told me. "But what can you do? What I'm doing now is more important to me. This veneration of one period of one's life is pointless. It's great to look back and smile. But middle-aged self congratulation is very dangerous."
Yet following recent reunions by The Police, Genesis, Crowded House, Spice Girls and Take That, it was announced this week that Plant, Page and Jones, together with Jason Bonham, son of the group's late drummer, John Bonham, will reunite for the first time since 1988, when they played a half-hour set at a 40th birthday celebration for Atlantic Records at Madison Square Garden in New York.
On that occasion Plant forgot the words of "Kashmir", Page lost his way in the middle of the guitar solo on "Heartbreaker" and the pair had an almighty row over whether they should play "Stairway To Heaven" (Plant didn't want to sing it and Page was adamant that the world expected it). In the end, they did play it but Plant subsequently denounced the gig as "foul" and Page admitted it was "one big disappointment".
Their only other reunion since the band's break-up following Bonham's death in 1980, when they played Live Aid in Philadelphia in 1985, was similarly disappointing.
Indeed, their performance was so poor that when Live Aid eventually came out in DVD format some 20 years later, Led Zeppelin refused to allow their contribution to be included in the package. Plant subsequently described their performance as "a fucking atrocity" and likened it to Frank Sinatra singing "My Way".
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