Tokyo - Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page said today he was ready to take the iconic band on a world tour after burning up the stage at last month’s reunion concert in London. But it probably won’t be before September.
“The amount of work we put into O2 was what you would normally put into a world tour anyway,” Page, 64, said of the intense rehearsing the band did for the Dec. 10 concert at London’s O2 Arena.
The band’s three surviving members Page, singer Robert Plant and bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones were joined at the sold-out benefit show by the late John Bonham’s son Jason on drums.
Page, who was in Japan to promote the new Zeppelin release, “Mothership,” said the two-hour-plus concert was proof that Led Zeppelin can still perform at its best.
He said the band, which formed in 1968, was ready musically to get back together and take it out on a wider run, but it was not clear when it would go on tour as the singer had other plans.
“Robert Plant has a parallel project and he is busy with that until September,” Page said.
Plant and bluegrass star Alison Krauss will begin their world tour with a run of shows in the southern U.S. this spring. The two released an album in October called “Raising Sand” that debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard chart in the U.S. The duo will tour Europe in May before returning for North American shows still to be announced for June and July.
Scientology is claiming now that the Tom Cruise propaganda video that was leaked onto the Web last week was actually a good thing for the sect.
“Having presented these selective and out-of-context excerpts with the intent of creating both controversy and ridicule resulted in people searching for Church of Scientology websites,” a rep for the faith told the New York Post’s Page Six.
Scientology turned up on the “most searched for” lists of various search engines. But whoever leaked the video Tom Cruise with Katie Holmes and daughter Suri is still in trouble. An insider said, “The clip on the Internet was nine minutes long - but the original was way longer. It was edited to make Tom look really crazy.”
New York Sylvester Stallone says he used human growth hormone to get buff for the new “Rambo” movie, and defends its use.
“HGH (human growth hormone) is nothing,” the 61-year-old actor tells Time magazine in its Feb. 4 issue. “Anyone who calls it a steroid is grossly misinformed.” Because it is nearly undetectable, HGH has become a substance of great concern in major league baseball and other sports battling allegations of rampant doping.
“Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older,” he says. “Everyone Sylvester Stallone in his latest “Rambo” movie. over 40 years old would be wise to investigate it because it increases the quality of your life. Mark my words. In 10 years it will be over the counter.” Stallone directed and co-wrote the new “Rambo” movie, which arrived in theaters Friday.
Is kooky Prince Frederic von Anhalt at it again?
Zsa Zsa Gabor’s eighth husband may have been behind that naughty MySpace posting of Francesca Hilton, Zsa Zsa’s daughter by hotel-chain founder Conrad Hilton, the New York Daily News reports.
The page featured a photo of Francesca - Paris Hilton’s great-aunt - posed with an Eddie Murphy look-alike and the comments, “This is MY man. You b—-es better back off!” as well as “I smoke weed every Prince Von Anhalt day.”
“Francesca does not do drugs; she does not smoke marijuana. The page on MySpace was bogus,” said Hilton’s spokesman Edward Lozzi, who added that MySpace had vaporized the page. “Frederic von Anhalt may have been behind it. He’s a loose cannon, as you know.”
Von Anhalt denies posting the page.
Last year, Von Anhalt claimed to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby, Dannielynn. Last July, he was found naked and handcuffed to his Rolls Royce, claiming he’d been robbed by three women. Some suspected both stories were hoaxes perpetrated by the attention-loving prince.
Britney Spears’ constant companion and “manager,” Sam Lufti, had three restraining orders taken out against him in California before Sam Lufti hopping on the pop tart’s crazy-train.
Danny Haines, one of the people who obtained a court order, says Lufti told him he should “just kill himself” when their friendship soured.
Lufti was “more jealous than a lover,” Haines tells Blender magazine. He says Lufti would go to extremes, telling him he was a “worthless (expletive)” one minute and that he “loved” him the next. When Haines eventually cut him off, Lufti humiliated him, e-mailing naked photos of him to his family, friends and co-workers.
Sean Combs, aka Puffy, P. Diddy and Diddy, says reports that he wants to be called “Sean Combs” again are not true.
“I’m not changing my name. I’ve been there, done that,” Combs told us. “My legal name is Sean Combs, (but) people call me Puffy, or Diddy or P. Diddy. It’s just that my life is on blast, so people know about all my different names. If I change my name again, y’all can have me certi fied as crazy. Alright? But I’m not crazy, so I won’t change my name.”
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