Led Zeppelin turned a press conference into a Madhouse

Led Zeppelin were recently on a European and Scandinavian tour. They were supposed to stop by Oslo, but the visit was canceled when the band demanded that a special (and expensive) stage be built for them. In Copenhagen, they gave one of their rare press conferences, and few of the journalists present will ever forget it. The band brought along a couple of musclemen (popularly called gorillas) who used their muscles to turn the press conference into a madhouse. Quite innocent questions to the band members resulted in two journalists being kicked down a flight of stairs and a female journalist being bitten in the stomach (!). Some alcohol was served at the conference.

Many in Norway awaited Led Zeppelin with longing and pain. The concert they were supposed to have played at Chateau Neuf in Oslo is the same one they had some time ago on their tour in England and Scotland. The show opens with "Rock and Roll" from the LP "LZ 4", and continues with the most successful songs from that and the next to last LP. If the guys like the audience, they give a 15-minute encore, based on "Immigrant Song" from their third LP. Led Zeppelin is made up of tough guys, and they surround themselves with even tougher guards. When Robert Plant is asked about the way they treat the press (without mentioning the scuffle that took place in Copenhagen), he pulls out a new bottle of his favorite white wine and replies: "When we have something to say, we say it." Here's how I see it: "When I'm busy making new songs, that's all I want to do. I don't want to go to London to talk to the press. Concentration, that's the thing. It's on stage that we give the audience what they want, not in newspapers and magazines." "When I go on stage, I know what it's about, and so do the other guys. It's the job
years, says Plant (NPS)

The guys in Led Zeppelin don't like press people, they say. But even if their bodyguards
treat journalists very roughly and brutally, the same pop guys are very fond of PR.

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