Posted on 12/11/2007 2:55:21 PM PST by blam
Led Zeppelin sales soar after concert success
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 11/12/2007
Sales of Led Zeppelin’s back catalogue soared today after the spectacular success of their one-off reunion concert.
The group’s best-of album, Mothership, have already gone Platinum, meaning it has sold more than 300,000 copies, but Gennaro Castaldo, a spokesman for HMV, said it was on track to become one of the biggest best-sellers.
Robert Plant and Jimmy Page perform in Istanbul in March
Sales of the album at the company’s 240 stores leapfrogged those of Westlife and the Spice Girls to become the chain’s number one seller.
“Sales of their album have had a massive, massive boost by the concert,” he said.
“It was our best-selling album today, up from number eight last week. Led Zeppelin t-shirts have also been our most popular since the concert.”
Mr Castaldo said that sales of the band’s DVD, The Song Remains the Same, and its back catalogue had rocketed by 500 per cent since the concert.
The Led Zeppelin official website became the third most visited for an artist or band, beaten only by Katie Melua and Radiohead.
The web was also awash with calls from the army of followers for the British group to announce a world tour.
Jimmy Page, the guitarist, has already indicated that he would like to play more shows, but singer Robert Plant has so far appeared reluctant to commit.
“If the crowd response didn’t convince Robert then nothing will,” one fan wrote after watching the show at the O2 Centre in London.
“Led Zep owe us a tour. Robert needs to start thinking about all the fans who love them,” said another.
Another pleaded: “I hope they will. There are so many of us who missed out on tickets for a concert we’d imagined for nearly three decades.”
According to industry insiders, the band have two nights at Wembley Stadium in London on hold for next summer.
But sources close to the band said that a decision had not yet been made because “their energies were concentrated 100 per cent on last night’s gig”.
However, he added: “A tour has certainly not been ruled out and Jimmy has said it would be a shame not to do more.”
Shortly after the band’s music was available to download last month, their classic 1971 song Stairway to Heaven went straight into the Top 40.
I’ll bet Led Zepplin at 35 years past their prime are a million times better than 90 percent of what passes for music these days. They are one of the top rock bands ever. In fact, I was watching some of their vintage stuff on VH1 Classic last night and they just rocked. No fancy sets, no background dancers, no gimmicks, no stupid looking tatoos all over. Jimmy Page - that says it all.
Idrew that picture so many times as a kid, I think I can draw it from memory.
They all (with the exception of JPJ) went down to the crossroads.
According to the reporter in the linked video, there are plans now for a tour next year.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article567260.ece
Aren’t they dead, too?
led btttt
never heard of em...but the jpg tag gives them away...
funny, the guy on the right kinda looks like a young Ozzy.
LOL..though that tune is anti-drug,drinkin’’ ect..
True ... that’s worth something.
I assign the teenagers extra chores when the babies start singing 70’s rock!
True ... that’s worth something.
I assign the teenagers extra chores when the babies start singing 70’s rock!
"Sound quality was SPOT- on ......"
Dazed and Confused...Rock and Roll...Good Times, Bad Times...Communication Breakdown...Heartbreaker...
But I also like the more obscure...No Quarter...Misty Mountain Hop...Bring It On Home...The Battle of Evermore...Dancing Days...The Ocean...How Many More Times...In The Light
I also like every single song on “In Through the Out Door”
I owned every album at various times. :) There wasn’t a real bad one although I never much cared for ‘Presence’, if I had to take one away that would be first to go.
For those short twelve years they were fantastic.
All that followed was just somehow hollow comparatively...Plant, Page...The Firm.
I think ‘radioactive’ was so so...other than that...nothing like Led Zep!
” And five, now this is the most important, Rat. When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV. “
Who is that?
As I posted on another LZ thread, some people remember where they were when Kennedy was shot, I remember where I was the first time I heard ‘Stairway to Heaven.’
Zeppelin’s catalog is out on iTunes - I’ve had a great time the past couple of weeks listening to songs I still know by heart. Now if I’d stop forgetting my own name...
It gets harder to get up for a show as they get older. They may have had to go on diets and vitamin B injections for a month. Not the kind of thing old retired people want to do all the time.
I thought "Stairway to Heaven" was a Neil Sedaka hit from 1960.
Yes, Sedaka did have a hit by that same name.
Speaking of which... is this Led Zeppelin reunion a case of “love will keep us together” or simply “breaking up is hard to do?”
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