Rock legend Robert Plant receives CBE
Its members have performed together since on occasions, including an Atlantic records anniversary concert in 1988 and for Live Aid in 1985.
In December 2007, they played a 90-minute set at London’s O2 arena in front of 10,000 people.
The internet rush to buy £125 tickets to see Page, Plant, John Paul Jones, who by then had a combined age of over 180, and Bonham’s son Jason saw up to 20million people crashing the website.
In 2005, Led Zeppelin received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
The following year, the surviving members of the band received the prestigious Swedish Polar Music Prize.
Plant recalled at the time that Led Zeppelin recorded their last studio album, In Through The Out Door, in a Stockholm studio in 1979.
“It’s a long time ago.
‘‘Music has been a fantastic passport to us all,” he said.
Jon Lord, a former member of Deep Purple, read the academy’s citation, calling Led Zeppelin “one of the great pioneers of rock”.
