Musician Robert Plant (C),
formerly of Led Zeppelin, performs at the main stage during the
Exit music festival in the Serbian town of Novi Sad July 12, 2007.
Led Zeppelin will offer their music online for the first time next
month, they said on Monday. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
Led Zeppelin, one of the most popular rock bands of all time,
will have its music for sale at online music retailers on November
13, according to media reports Tuesday.
Now Led Zeppelin is hoping to shake off the last vestiges of its
image as rock dinosaur. As one of the last remaining bands to
resist licensing its music to online download stores, the band
announced Monday all the catalogue would be available from November
13. The decision will allow fans to buy songs individually for the
first time.
"We are pleased that the complete Led Zeppelin catalog will now
be available digitally," guitarist Jimmy Page said in a statement.
"The addition of the digital option will better enable fans to
obtain our music in whichever manner that they prefer."
The albums being made available include Led Zeppelin
(1969), Led Zeppelin II (1969), Led Zeppelin III
(1970), Untitled fourth album (1971), Houses Of The
Holy (1973), Physical Graffiti (1975),
Presence (1976), The Song Remains The Same (1976,
recently remixed and remastered for reissue on Nov. 20), In
Through The Out Door (1979), Coda (1982), How The
West Was Won (2003), and Mothership (available
November 13).
The announcement caused frenzied excitement, with more than a
million fans registering online to apply for 10,000 available
tickets.
Zeppelin was formed in 1968 and broke up in 1980, following the
death of drummer John Bonham. To date, the band has sold more than
300 million albums worldwide.
On November?26 the surviving members of the band -- Robert
Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones -- will top the bill at a
concert at the O2 arena in London commemorating the life of Ahmet
Ertegun, the legendary Atlantic Records founder who died last year
aged 83 and who originally signed the band in 1968.
(Agencies via Xinhua October 16, 2007)
