Post by valerie davenport on Nov 6, 2007 16:32:49 GMT -5
Led Zeppelin Guitarist Sorry For Delay
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has told Sky News how sorry he is the band's comeback gig has been postponed because of a broken finger. The band's one-off reunion show in London is thought to have prompted 20 million people to try to get tickets - but it has been delayed by two weeks after Page fell over in the dark.
"The light was very dim and I tripped over something and I landed on various bits of my anatomy but of course the crucial part was left hand, little finger," the normally publicity-shy guitarist explained.
The show at the O2 Arena has now been moved to December 10.
"It's unfortunate about the postponement but what can you do? I feel really sorry for the all people involved in the show and the fans who may have been inconvenienced, but roll on the 10th," he added.
The show - the band's first proper gig in two decades - is a charity event in honour of the man who signed Led Zep in the US, Ahmet Ertegun.
Profits from the show will go to the fund set up in his name, which pays for student scholarships to universities in the UK, US and Turkey.
It will also be used to establish a music scholarship at Ravensbourne College in Kent.
Page talked to Sky News just before picking up a lifetime achievement prize at the Classic Rock award ceremony in London, where other rockers paid tribute to him.
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler said Led Zeppelin were hugely influential, explaining: "They took the blues and rocked it out. And Jimmy did it in such a way that no-one did anything like that or even came close."
Fellow rocker Alice Cooper added: "Led Zeppelin are arguably the biggest hard rock band of all time.
"If you take the Stones and Beatles out of it, it'd be between The Who and Led Zeppelin."
Page was shy about showing off his finger to reporters at the event, choosing to keep his left hand in his pocket for most of the time.
Asked for a close-up of the hand, he joked: "It's hiding. I left it at
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has told Sky News how sorry he is the band's comeback gig has been postponed because of a broken finger. The band's one-off reunion show in London is thought to have prompted 20 million people to try to get tickets - but it has been delayed by two weeks after Page fell over in the dark.
"The light was very dim and I tripped over something and I landed on various bits of my anatomy but of course the crucial part was left hand, little finger," the normally publicity-shy guitarist explained.
The show at the O2 Arena has now been moved to December 10.
"It's unfortunate about the postponement but what can you do? I feel really sorry for the all people involved in the show and the fans who may have been inconvenienced, but roll on the 10th," he added.
The show - the band's first proper gig in two decades - is a charity event in honour of the man who signed Led Zep in the US, Ahmet Ertegun.
Profits from the show will go to the fund set up in his name, which pays for student scholarships to universities in the UK, US and Turkey.
It will also be used to establish a music scholarship at Ravensbourne College in Kent.
Page talked to Sky News just before picking up a lifetime achievement prize at the Classic Rock award ceremony in London, where other rockers paid tribute to him.
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler said Led Zeppelin were hugely influential, explaining: "They took the blues and rocked it out. And Jimmy did it in such a way that no-one did anything like that or even came close."
Fellow rocker Alice Cooper added: "Led Zeppelin are arguably the biggest hard rock band of all time.
"If you take the Stones and Beatles out of it, it'd be between The Who and Led Zeppelin."
Page was shy about showing off his finger to reporters at the event, choosing to keep his left hand in his pocket for most of the time.
Asked for a close-up of the hand, he joked: "It's hiding. I left it at
