Jimmy Page Puts an End to Rumors

Though rumors have been circulating since Led Zeppelin’s one off reunion in December, credibility to the rumor was added last week when Jason Bonham told a Detroit radio station that he, along with John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page, had been jamming in the studio, giving fans hope that new recorded material may be in the works.

Though rumors have been circulating since Led Zeppelin’s one off reunion in December, credibility to the rumor was added last week when Jason Bonham told a Detroit radio station that he, along with John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page, had been jamming in the studio, giving fans hope that new recorded material may be in the works. Not to pull a Chinese Democracy on fans, Bonham did note that “Lots of politics [would need to] get ironed out [before an album could be made].”

During a press conference at the Toronto International Film Festival this Saturday, however, Jimmy Page quashed all rumors of a Led Zeppelin reunion or new album.

Page, along with Jack White and U2 guitarist the Edge, was fielding questions for the documentary It Might Get Loud, about the history of the electric guitar, when on two separate occasions, reporters asked the Led Zeppelin guitarist about the recent rumors spurred by Bonham’s comments.

Finally responding to the questions, but not providing the answer fans wanted to hear, Page denied a future reunion saying, “If you’re going to do a reunion, you need four members. John Paul Jones, myself, and Jason would sort of jam afterwards, but it was nothing as monumental as people are speculating.” He also denied that these jam sessions would turn into any new material, directly commenting, “We’re not actually recording.”

Led Zeppelin’s last studio album In Through the Out Door was released in 1979, a full year before the death of original drummer John Bonham and the subsequent disbandment of the remaining band members.