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The Sheepdogs at our brother station Q107 in Toronto this week covering The Band - they did this live at the London Music Hall on Friday November 30th with a little help from Yukon Blonde's Frontman Jeff Innes

The Sheepdogs - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Home

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Rock Led Zeppelin Ann & Nancy Wilson of Heart sang ‘Stairway to Heaven’ stairway heaven 


*In a performance that had Robert Plant on the verge of tears, Ann & Nancy Wilson of Heart sang ‘Stairway to Heaven’ as the finale of a star-studded musical tribute to Led Zeppelin during the Kennedy Center Honors, which were broadcast last night (Dec. 26) on CBS.

It seems like about 3,000 people were on stage during this performance, with the Wilson sisters joined by late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham’s son Jason on drums, as well as a gigantic house band featuring string and horn sections and what appeared to be two different vocal choirs.

As anyone who’s seen their frequent live performances of ‘Rock and Roll‘ or ‘The Battle of Evermore‘ can tell you, the Wilson sisters know how to play Led Zeppelin live. From the moment they began, all eyes and ears were focused on Ann Wilson, and she knocked this one out of the park, leaving John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and a clearly misty Plant with big smiles on their faces as they watched from the balcony.

Earlier in the evening, the Foo Fighters, Kid Rock and Lenny Kravitz performed short versions of three other Led Zeppelin classics, and you can listen those right here.

*Rock legends Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and Robert Plant -- perhaps better known as the band Led Zeppelin -- were recently honored at the Kennedy Center Honors, where they were introduced simply as "the best band ever."

The three musicians sat down with Charlie Rose and opened up about the early days of the group, their intense ride to fame, and what's next.

Jimmy Page explained that the group came together after a band he had been playing with, The Yardbirds, split up.

"So I wanted to form a group sort of from the ashes of the Yardbirds, if you like and so the search began for musicians."

The first new member to be drafted was studio musician John Paul Jones, and then joined 19-year-old Robert Plant, and John Bonham on the drums.

And right away, the group knew they were going to make it. "It got big the minute we met," Plant told Charlie Rose.

"Didn't matter what happened after that ... I mean it was just like, 'Bang, what's that?'" Page continued.

And the band said that although the critics never quite "understood what we were doing," they got better creatively decades to come.

All eight of the band's studio albums landed on Billboard's Top Ten list, six of them at number one.

"I don't think we ever managed to supply the demand," Page said. "The people just kept wanting to see us ... more and more. In droves."

Despite their staggering success, Plant said at the time, "I couldn't get over the fact that I was hanging out with Janis Joplin and people like that."

But the band came to an abrupt end in 1980, when drummer John Bonham died.

It was a four piece band you know," Plant explained. "It would have been impossible to actually be able to play and not see John Bonham there."

So for thirty years, the surviving three members pursued separate careers, aside from two brief live reunions in 1985 and 1988, which were met with rave reviews by fans, but disappointed the band.

"It wasn't bad, but it wasn't really, really good," Page said.

In 2007, Plant, Page, and Jones took the stage again -- this time with John Bonham's son Jason on the drums -- to perform one last time. The band gave a performance that did not disappoint fans ... or themselves.

"By song number three, I think we knew that ... we were on it," Plant said.

"It was the perfect opportunity to go out there ... and show why we were who we were," Page added.

And while the band has no plans to reunite for a tour, they're confident in their place in rock history.

"It's such a textbook for young musicians," Page said, before adding, "I would say ... without being conceited here ... but yeah, it was the best band."

For more from the in-depth interview and for a look -- and listen -- back at their hits


Tribute to Led Zeppelin (35th Kennedy Center Honors, Live, 2012)

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