Zeppelin Gate: Major Pubs Caught Running Old Interviews As New News

01/09/2009
. (MusicRadar) It was only yesterday that, according to BBC 6Music, Led Zeppelin were going to tour and record again. Today, however, they're not. We know this because Jimmy Page's manager Peter Mensch told us. So how did such a contradiction come about? Allow us to show you via a timeline of every critical, crucial and some minor events leading up to what someone just labeled as "Zep-gate." Or "Led-fence", perhaps�

[Here are the absolutely key parts of the timeline.] 10:52am 1/7/09: An interview with Jimmy Page's manager Peter Mensch pops up on BBC 6Music. Apparently Led Zeppelin will tour and record a new album without original frontman Robert Plant. 12:55pm
The news spreads like wildfire, with the NME, MTV and Rolling Stone (to name but a few) quoting the BBC interview.

[14:45pm MusicRadar's Joe Bosso gets a hold of Mensch to confirm the report and here is what followed: ] JB: "Hey Pete, nice interview with the BBC, who's replacing Robert Plant, then?"

PM: "What interview? I haven't spoke to those guys for like four months or something."

JB: "So Led Zeppelin are not going to tour and record?"

PM: "No chance."

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