The one Young brother is in terrible stages of dementia, he is officially retired from the band.
I heard. This was kinda why I assumed they were done.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/led-zeppelins-robert-plant-turns-4595788
[size=150]Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant Turns Down £500MILLION to Reform Supergroup [/size]
Nov 08, 2014 21:00
By Katie Hind
The rock legend ripped up Sir Richard Branson’s contract for 35 dates in front of astonished promoters after the other members of the supergroup all signed up Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant has turned down a Whole Lotta Lolly – more than £500MILLION – to reform the band for the dearest tour in history.
The rock legend ripped up Sir Richard Branson’s contract for 35 dates in three cities in front of astonished promoters after the other members of the supergroup all signed up.
The tour would have earned singer Plant and fellow founders Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones £190million each before tax.
But Plant, 66, said he thought it wasn’t the right thing to do.
A source close to the group said: “They have tried to talk him round but there is no chance.
“His mind is made up and that’s that.”
Virgin tycoon Branson, 64, has been a lifelong fan of the band.
He was getting ready to rebrand one of his Jumbo jets “The Starship” to fly the group around the venues.
An industry source said they were told they could have £250 million for 35 dates in three cities, London at the O2, Berlin and New Jersey.
Led Zep were also promised £70million of the profit from merchandise and there was an option to do 45 more gigs in five venues.
The cash was to be split three ways between Plant, Page, 70, and Jones, 68, while Jason Bonham, 48, son of late drummer John, would have been paid a wage to perform.
Our band source said: “Jimmy, John and Jason signed up immediately.
“It was a no-brainer for them but Robert asked for 48 hours to think about it. When he said no and ripped up the paperwork he had been given, there was an enormous sense of shock.
"There is no way they can go ahead without him.”
Branson had planned to have the staircase of the Starship jet renamed the Stairway to Heaven after the band’s 70s hit and was going to sell off the back 20 rows of the aircraft as special Led Zep seats for £100,000 each.
The source added: “Branson tried to pull out all of the stops. But even his money was not enough to get Plant to sign up. He is gutted.”
Plant has previously said: “I have to be in some brand new zones quite regularly… It’s an insane thing to do, to go back.”
Formed in 1966, Led Zeppelin have sold more than 300 million albums. Their last performance was a one night only gig at London’s O2 on December 10, 2007.
It’s a bit arrogant of Branson to assume that large piles of money would convince Zeppelin to reform. Like they don’t have enough cash? Either way, I’d rather they not force it…if the band themselves isn’t into it, I’d rather they don’t. And I have a feeling that Plant’s voice isn’t quite there anymore.
Branson had planned to have the staircase of the Starship jet renamed the Stairway to Heaven
Yeah, given that five people have already died while working on Branson’s ridiculous consumer space rockets, this nickname is even MORE appropriate.
Gotta respect Mr. Plant in this situation. Good move. 
It would’ve been cool to see them play.
I’d have driven to Jersey to see them. Crashed on fone’s couch. 
I saw them as Page and Plant on their last tour and they were excellent…but that was like 1999…
This video is hysterical. Grandmas smoke weed for the first time.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRBAZJ4lF0U&sns=em[/youtube]
Arrogant, but logical and enterprising. That’s what gets things done 99.9% of the time.
Kudos to Robert Plant for not caving to something he didn’t want to do just for another large sum of money on top of many other large sums of money.
^Well, supposedly Plant said he’d never heard of the offer and that it was a bad story or something…so who knows?
Get yer hetty Flakka at a lot near you… summer 2015 
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The man-made drug causes a high similar to cocaine. But like “bath salts,” a group of related synthetic drugs that were banned in 2012, flakka has the potential to be much more dangerous than cocaine
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iIt goes by the name flakka. In some parts of the country, it is also called “gravel” because of its white crystal chunks that have been compared to aquarium gravel.[/i]
Mmmmm…gotta love me those synthetic drugs! Nothing ever goes wrong with those things!
Reminds me of how they’re putting tiny plastic beads in some toothpastes. I think I heard that, anyway. I’m not sure if that counts as its own news. It’s like, news that doesn’t even deserve to be in the News that Doesn’t Deserve It’s Own Thread thread.
Thanks for the heads up, Jon Fishman.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lead-paint-phish-fishman_55fadb7fe4b00310edf6046e
Tiger Blood??!
http://www.today.com/health/charlie-sheen-reveals-hes-hiv-positive-today-show-exclusive-t56391
Not really a surprise(at all), yet first celebrity since Magic Johnson to come out in '91.
Obviously this is all about damage control, since this story was starting to leak. Gonna be a o’lot of lawsuits coming his way. Which he has no one to blame but himself for his reckless behaviors, b ut you can’t convince me otherwise that some of these women he was involved with, character, sexual relationships/history don’t come into question.
As a huge fan of Two and Half men it sheds some light and is kind of sad in a way, that his diagnoses came about the same time of his firing and toxic breakdown.
Really hope this guy can clean up a little and make it back to TV. Always been a fan of his stuff. He is a funny dude… And will for sure need some cash
And will for sure need some cash
I dunno…as much as he’s screwed around, I have a feeling he’s doing fine financially. His family has been well-off to begin with and he made mountains on One and a Half Men…he’d have to put in quite an effort to blow all that so quickly. For all the stories of his craziness, I don’t remember one about him being broke.
As for the HIV thing, thankfully technology is to the point where you can take medication to basically halt it from ever becoming AIDs.
yet first celebrity since Magic Johnson to come out in '91.
Wow, it’s been that long? I’m struggling to think of another so I guess you’re right.
I wouldn’t say broke per say, and I cant remember exactly what he said in the interview, but he made a comment about his finacial situation not being in the greatest shape and that he would likely need/want to work again. He has already paid out upwards of 10 mil to someone who found out about his situation, and was blackmailing him.
And yea so many things worse than Hiv these days, unless you have full blown Aids. It used to be you had to take upwards of 20 pills a day to keep it at bay and now you only need as little as 1-5. I also read that they now have a pill for people who arent effected as another way to prevent the std along with condoms if you were involved with a person who had been diagnosed.
This guy might not even know who he is.
^I was going to say when is Dicaprio going to portray this guy?
He should be a movie actor himself. He’s probably a much better actor than Dicaprio too.
I always found it silly how quickly people fall over to help and give things to folks they consider to be a vet. I mean, I know a bunch of guys who would just wear their camo battle fatigues to something like a sporting event and would either get in free or get free food or get seat upgrades or something nutty about that. And it’s SO damn easy to just buy one of those camo outfits and wear it and get treatment. Even funnier since none of them went overseas for anything but certainly didn’t deny that they did when it was brought up.
And seriously, what’s with the damn camo outfits? You’re in a damn city…what the fuck are you wearing camo for? It’s not even that blue and grey “urban camo” they have…it’s the damn green and brown camo for forests. Just looks silly to me.
It’s bad, but I sometimes have a love/hate relationship with the obsession over vets. On one hand, these guys go through shit and get tossed away like garbage by their government so they deserve what they can get…but on the other hand, many of them go to the military because they have to because they have no money and not really because they want to “serve their country,” virtually none of them are “fighting for our freedoms” and we haven’t done that in arguably a century or more and it’s just a tired cliche to see every business and government entities mindlessly honoring the soldiers to make themselves look more noble. It’s a nice thing but it’s just so phony at times and I always hate phony…but if it results in nice things being done for vets, I guess it’s cool.
He’s probably a much better actor than Dicaprio too.
Bashing Dicaprio!? Gasp!