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Led Zeppelin Reunion Triggers Huge Sales Surge

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Sales of Led Zeppelin's albums and merchandise have surged following their reunion concert in London.

According to figures published yesterday (December 11th), the band’s recently released and digitally re-mastered greatest hits album, ‘Mothership,’ has overtaken the Spice Girls to become the weeks number one selling record.

Gennaro Castaldo, a spokesman for HMV said: “It was our best-selling album today, up from number eight last week. Led Zeppelin t-shirts have also been our most popular since the concert.”

Gennaro told the Telegraph that sales of the band’s back catalogue and DVD, ‘The Song Remains The Same,’ had increased by 500% since Monday’s concert.

The sell-out show at the O2 Arena saw Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones reunite onstage for the first time since 1988.

The were joined on drums by Jason Bonham, son of the band’s original drummer, John Bonham.

To see Gigwise’s full review of the concert, CLICK HERE
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  • An increase in column inches and pixels containing the words ’Led’ and ’Zeppelin’ have increased since the quartet emerged from the Valley of the Dinosaurs to trot out their brand of reheated histrionic blues on Monday night. One delighted editor commented: ’It’s brilliant! All we have to do is come up with some tenuous link or idea featuring Led Zep -ie should they do the Queens’ speech - and we have a feature, item and web poll! If only The Beatles

    ~ by Bored by Zep 12/12/2007

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  • Sales of tea and coffee have dramatically shot up since it was revealed that Led Zeppelin enjoyed a caffeine infusion prior to taking the stage on Monday night. Said Chip N. Zee, CEO of PG Phoo Tea: ”We’ve never seen anything like it! With this kind of publicity we can finally put the menace of cocaine behind us when people realise that two gallons of caffeine will have you chewing your face off in no time at at all!”

    ~ by Zed Lepp 12/12/2007

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  • To the poster ’Bored by Zep’, it doesnt matter if they are old, if they can still play then thats all that matters. they sounded phenomenal on the night. and the demand is clearly there. bring it on! led zep far better than the beatles imo (blasphemy to many i know). jimmy page much better guitar player than george harrison, john paul jones far better player and much more talented multi-instrumentalist than paul mccartney, john bonham (and jason judging by monday night) are f

    ~ by Dan 12/12/2007

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