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Paul Brannigan

"It's journalistic complacency and claptrap." Robert Plant never liked the idea of Led Zeppelin being labelled a heavy metal band

Robert Plant, Jimmy Page.

In the summer of 1994, with the encouragement of MTV, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page reunited to revisit Led Zeppelin classics and deep cuts for a TV special titled Unledded.

When interviewed about the project, the two former Led Zeppelin were at pains to emphasise that their collaboration did not equate to a Led Zeppelin reunion - the band's other surviving member John Paul Jones was not invited to participate - even though Page admitted that the idea was first presented to him with the suggestion that "it would be nice to have Led Zeppelin in an intimate situation."

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