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July 31, 2007
Rock legends enter iPod age
Rock legends Led Zeppelin have finally decided to enter the download age by agreeing to make their latest best of album available via iTunes.
Led Zeppelin split up in 1980 following the death of drummer John Bonham - who met a typically rock'n'roll demise by choking on his own vomit after a heavy drinking session - but a succession of retrospective albums have since been released.
Surviving members Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones had previously refused to allow these or any of the eight albums the group released between 1969 and 1979 to be made available to iPod users via internet download.
However, they have abandoned that policy for the November release of a 24-track career retrospective entitled Mothership, which will be available either as a double CD, a four lp vinyl set or from iTunes.
Led Zeppelin - who are widely credited with, or depending on your musical taste blamed for, inventing heavy metal - have sold over 300 million albums worldwide, despite never releasing a single to promote those albums.
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Posted by ipodworld at July 31, 2007 09:19 AM
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