EXTRAORDINARY BROADCAST RECORDING FROM PAGE & PLANT IN 1995
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, recorded and toured in the mid-1990s under the moniker Page & Plant, having reunited in 1994 for MTV Unplugged, released as the live album No Quarter. Following the success of the record, they embarked on a world tour featuring a full orchestra and performing reworked versions of classic Led Zeppelin songs.
In 1998, Page and Plant released an album of new material, Walking Into Clarksdale, featuring the Grammy Award-winning single "Most High". Following the album's release, they embarked on a final world tour before disbanding at the end of 1998. They later briefly reunited in 2001. • The initial plans for a reunion were made in 1993, with discussions between the two emerging from casual small talk and then an invitation to perform on Unplugged. Music producer Bill Curbishley, who had been managing Plant since the 1980s and who assumed
management of Page in 1994, was integral in the reuniting of Page & Plant. Despite failed attempts by others to reunite the pair, Curbishley was able to persuade the previously reluctant Plant into working with Page again. • Led Zeppelin's main songwriters reformed on 17 April 1994 as a part of the Alexis Korner Memorial Concert at Buxton, England. On 25 and 26 August they taped performances in London, Wales, and Morocco with Egyptian and Moroccan orchestration of several Led Zeppelin tunes along with four new songs. The performances aired on 12 October, and were so successful that the two coordinated a tour which kicked off in February 1995.
Page and Plant's tour line-up included Charlie Jones on bass and percussion, Michael Lee on drums, Pearl Thompson (of The Cure) on guitar and banjo, Najma Akhtar providing backup vocals, Jim Sutherland on mandolin and bodhrán, Nigel Eaton playing the hurdy-gurdy, and Ed Shearmur adding Hammond organ with orchestral arrangements. The tour began on February 28th ’95 in Atlanta, Georgia, and continues until October 26thm at Madison Square Gardens in New York. All dates they played in 1995 took place in the US – save for one in Mexico City and a second in Vancouver, Canada. However, on March 10th 1996 the pair performed a one-off show in Melbourne, Australia