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Reuniting Led Zep bows to demands of download devil, uploads catalogue

By Jonas Oransky,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 15, 2007 2:46 PM CDT

(Newser) – Led Zeppelin has joined the digital age, allowing its music to be sold online for the first time shortly before playing a one-off reunion show in November. The essential classic rock oeuvre is one of the last to get the mp3 treatment, Reuters reports. Led Zep will cave in to the 21st century all at once and also allow Verizon to sell ringtones.

But you’ll only be silencing your cellphone’s “Kashmir” solo as the lights dim at O2 Arena next month if you already have tickets: More than a million prospective concertgoers applied for the 10,000 available seats. If you’re devastated to have missed out, run out and buy the new two-disc greatest hits record—or log on and pull it off the Net.

Singer Robert Plant, left, and guitarist Jimmy Page, right, of the British rock band Led Zeppelin perform at the Live Aid concert at Philadelphia's J.F.K. Stadium in this file photo July 13, 1985.  Led Zeppelin, one of the last major acts to resist digital distribution, are releasing their...
Singer Robert Plant, left, and guitarist Jimmy Page, right, of the British rock band Led Zeppelin perform at the Live Aid concert at Philadelphia's J.F.K. Stadium in this file photo July 13, 1985. Led...   (Associated Press)
Former Led Zeppelin bandmates, bassist John Paul Jones ,left, and singer, Robert Plant, appear onstage at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia Pa. during the Live Aid famine relief concert, in this July 13, 1985 file photo.   Led Zeppelin, one of the last major acts to resist digital distribution, are releasing their...
Former Led Zeppelin bandmates, bassist John Paul Jones ,left, and singer, Robert Plant, appear onstage at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia Pa. during the Live Aid famine relief concert, in this July 13, 1985...   (Associated Press)
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin   (Archive Photos)
Celebrity Memorabilia to be Auctioned Off
Celebrity Memorabilia to be Auctioned Off   (Getty Images)
British rock legend Robert Plant performs on the main stage, during the Paleo open air music Festival in Nyon, Switzerland, Thursday, July 26, 2007.  Plant is the  singer with Led Zeppelin.  (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)
British rock legend Robert Plant performs on the main stage, during the Paleo open air music Festival in Nyon, Switzerland, Thursday, July 26, 2007. Plant is the singer with Led Zeppelin. (AP Photo/Keystone,...   (Associated Press)
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