Back when the Bonnaroo lineup was announced, the
NME plastered its Web site with announcements that Led Zeppelin would be playing the Tennessee festival—an announcement that was occasioned by the press release noting that the all-female Zep tribute band
Lez Zeppelin was on the bill. Such are the perils of being
the world's fastest music news service, right? Well, the breathless British tabloid is still convinced that the band will, in fact, play again, despite Robert Plant reportedly turning down a huge reunion-tour payday. And it's not afraid to take out-of-context quotes from a Led Zeppelin story running in its sister publication
Uncut and place them in front of fun-house mirrors for not one story, but
two, in order to prove its point.
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