Jimmy Page Stokes Zep Tour Rumors, EMI Tricks Radiohead Fans, Madonna Rumored to Be W

 

November 13, 2007, 09:14 PM

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• What’s a Tuesday without a Led Zeppelin reunion tour rumor? This week, it’s Jimmy Page once again adding fuel to the fan flames, telling Guitar World, “It’s a bit silly not to because there is such massive demand.” Regarding the band’s lone December 10th concert, “It’s a bit selfish to do just one show. If that’s it, we probably shouldn’t have taken the genie out of the bottle.”

• It’s no secret EMI is attempting to cash in on former label stars Radiohead, but now they may be going too far. Last week, EMI-sponsored ads on Google claimed that the record giant was selling box sets of Radiohead’s In Rainbows, even thought the album is now property of ATO. The link brought potential consumers to EMI’s own Radiohead Catalogue boxset, which doesn’t contain Rainbows. Radiohead’s camp dismissed the gaff as a “genuine error” on EMI’s part. Another possible culprit: Paul McCartney, who asked Thom Yorke to do a duet but was denied.

• Evan Dando is currently hard at work on the new Lemonheads album, hoping for an April 2008 release. To help cushion the wait, in March Dando also plans on reissuing the band’s 1992 epic It’s a Shame About Ray in a deluxe edition containing demos, B-sides and a DVD.

• A book detailing the final years of Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley is scheduled for release in late 2008. Itch, Love Stories About Heroin will document Staley’s addiction and struggles with the drug, as well as “reveal some secrets.”

• According to one fan site, a Kanye West/Madonna collaboration may appear on the Material Mom’s next album. While Madge and Pharrell Williams were putting finishing touches to her album at Record Plant in Los Angeles, West was next door working on the new Michael Jackson album. Pharrell introduced Madonna to Kanye, Kanye to Madonna, and the rest may be music history.

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