Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has shattered hopes of a reunion tour in a recent interview after admitting that it’s “very unlikely” the rock legends will embark on another tour.
Speaking on BBC Radio 2 this morning after debuting his previously unreleased collab with The Rolling Stones, ‘Scarlet’ on the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, the rocker was asked if the legendary group would ever return to go back on tour.
“At the time of the O2, we thought — myself, John Paul Jones and Jason [Bonham] — that there was going to; it was said that there were gonna be some more dates,” Page explained. “It would’ve been really good to have done that after the O2, ‘cos we’d put a lot of work into The O2 and we were really on it, y’know? But it didn’t come off.”
“It seems really unlikely that there would be a tour in the future,” he admitted. “Unlike The Rolling Stones, they do sort of know that the fans love that — also I know that with Led Zeppelin [fans too]. But it doesn’t look as though there’s anything in the future, unfortunately.”
He added, “We’re talking about a concert that was gigantic at the time, but that was 2007: time passes, y’know?”
It comes after Page dubbed Led Zeppelin as “the best” in a November 2019 interview with Uncut.
“What I mean is, when you talk about a band as a collaborative musical unit, we were the best,” he said at the time. “I am not talking about one or two genius songwriters, and everyone else tagging along. I am talking about a collection of musicians who are each at the top of their craft in their own right. In Led Zeppelin, we were exactly that.”
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The rock icon added, “If you are a young musician and you want to hear how a band works well together, then we’re a pretty good blueprint… every combination of the quartet could bring something special.”
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