It's been the most talked about reunion in years. Yep even more than those plastic Barbies, The Spice Girls.
And by all reports, their live show at London's O2 Arena was one glorious return to form...
Their first show in 17 years, they called on a few friends to help out warming the capacity crowd.
Bill Wyman & his posse, a batch of ex-Yes members...and a celebrity who's who in the audience to boot.
Hurtling into Good Times Bad Times, Ramble On and Black Dog, it's obvious there's been a few practice sessions of late, with Jason Bonham doing his late old man proud on the skins.
A regular Led Zeppelin juke box follows, as the rockers rip into Nobody's Fault But Mine, No Quarter (as tight as all fuck) Dazed And Confused.
Visions of the band in their hey days float above the stage..it's almost surreal.
The hair may have changed colour, but the rock lives on!
Jimmy Page is still the guitar icon he always was . 40 years has done little to dull those strings or the fervour wiith which they are played.
Stairway To Heaven gets the response you would expect...timeless and almost spooky coming from its original source.
Kashmir (in all its moving glory) rounds of the night before the obligatory encores.
And when Whole Lotta Love screams out into the night, it's not just the icing on the cake..it's the hinges being ripped off every rock coffin ever buried.
Rock And Roll tips its hat to Ahmet Ertegun as the rock warriors banish all skeletons and sign out with all barrels firing.
Rock lives!
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