Led Zeppelin Latest
Led Zeppelin's Jones Disowns Road Manager After Biographies....
Rocker John Paul Jones has disowned Led Zeppelin's one-time road manager after his former friend sold the legendary band's secrets to two biographers.Richard Cole toured with Led Zeppelin throughout the group's late 1960s/'70s heyday, and went on to become the primary source for author Stephen Davis' landmark 1985 account of the band's excesses on the road, Hammer Of The Gods.When Jones later asked him why he'd exaggerated the group's bad behaviour for the book, Cole explained that he'd been a drug addict who needed the money - so the rocker forgave him.But Jones has now vowed never to talk to Cole again after he went behind the bandmates' backs for a second time - for his own 2002 book, Stairway To Heaven: Led Zeppelin Uncensored.Jones says, "I saw Richard after that book (Hammer Of The Gods), and he'd cleaned up and said he did it for the money. I went, 'OK,' because I knew him from before the band so we made our peace."And then another book came out, Stairway To Heaven, which made Bonzo (drummer John Bonham) look such a monster. I've never spoken to him again".Led Zeppelin will reunite for a special one-off concert on Monday (10Dec07) at London's O2 Arena. The late John Bonham will be replaced by his son Jason on drums.The Led Zeppelin reunion gig was almost thrown into jeopardy on Monday night (10Dec07) when drummer Jason Bonham suffered an attack of nerves shortly before the band was due to take to the stage.
The legendary rockers reformed for a one-off show at London's O2 Arena in memory of their late friend and Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, with Foreigner star Jason taking the place of his father, John Bonham, in the band's line-up.
But the group's reunion proved to be tougher for 41-year-old Bonham than he thought it would be.
Backstage at the concert, his Foreigner bandmate, Mick Jones, tells Wenn, "It's been so emotional for Jason. He was fine up until 45 minutes before the show. He will be wretching (vomiting) before he goes on".
John Bonham died in 1980, aged 32.
Tagged in John Paul Jones