Plant 'tore up' €630m deal for 35-day Led Zeppelin tour

Robert Plant "tore up" a deal worth more than £500m (€630m) to reform Led Zeppelin.

Plant 'tore up' €630m deal for 35-day Led Zeppelin tour

Robert Plant "tore up" a deal worth more than £500m (€630m) to reform Led Zeppelin.

The 66-year-old legend stunned promoters of a proposed tour that would have saw the group - who split in 1980 and reformed for a one-off gig in London in 2007 - perform 35 dates in three cities for the staggering pay cheque by refusing the deal, even though bandmates Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones had signed on, as had Jason Bonham, who replaced his late father John on drums for their previous reunion show.

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