HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page says he's ready to take the legendary band on a world tour. The news comes after the band made headlines with a rousing performance at a Dec. 10 reunion concert at London's O2 Arena..
"The amount of work we put into O2 was what you would normally put into a world tour anyway," the 64-year-old Page revealed to the Associated Press.
The band's three surviving members — Page, singer Robert Plant and bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones — were joined at the benefit show by the late John Bonham's son Jason on drums.
He says the band, which formed in 1968, is ready musically to get back together and head out on a long run. However, standing in the way is a world tour that Plant and bluegrass star Alison Krauss are beginning this May in Europe.
Because of that commitment, the earliest possibility for a Led Zeppelin tour would most likely be September.
Page, who was in Japan to promote Led Zeppelin's new release, "Mothership," said the two-hour-plus concert was proof that the band can still perform at a high level.
"We wanted people who might not have even been alive in 1980 when we finished to understand what we were," he said.
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