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• Led Zeppelin to tour, record without singer Plant

  - 2008-10-28

  LONDON AFP — Legendary rock band Led Zeppelin are planning to return to recording and touring -- without singer and frontman Robert Plant, bassist John Paul Jones told BBC radio. Jones said the hard-rocking group were trying out different singers to replace Plant, who has repeatedly voiced his reluctance...

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• Led Zep duo join Foo Fighters in Wembley spectacular

  - 2008-06-08

  LONDON AFP — Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones from rock legends Led Zeppelin made a surprise appearance with Foo Fighters at London's Wembley Stadium, it was reported Sunday. Guitarist Page and bassist Jones joined Dave Grohl and his hard-rocking band for the encore of their show Saturday and...

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• Led Zep guitarist reveals secret reunion rehearsals

  - 2007-11-19

  LONDON AFP — Led Zeppelin rehearsed in secret before deciding to stage a one-off reunion gig, to make sure that the chemistry would still work, the legendary band's guitarist Jimmy Page said Monday. Page also refused to say whether the band -- which released a greatest hits album at...

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• Twenty million fans bid for Led Zeppelin comeback tickets

  - 2007-09-13

  LONDON AFP — About 20 million fans have tried to get tickets for Led Zeppelin's one-off comeback concert, a spokesman for the gig said Thursday. The rock legends are reforming for a tribute concert at London's O2 Arena on November 26. The former Millennium Dome venue in Greenwich can...

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• Apple demands profit share from iPhone network operators

  - 2007-08-22

  BERLIN AFP — Apple is demanding that European mobile operators T-Mobile, Orange and O2 pay it a 10-percent share of their revenues from its iPhone, the Financial Times Deutschland reported on Wednesday. If confirmed, it would ring in a new era in relations between mobile telephone makers and operators,...

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• Yellow carpet treatment for 'Simpsons' stars

  - 2007-07-26

  The yellow carpet was rolled out last night for the UK premiere of The Simpsons Movie. The O2 Centre became the D'oh2 Centre as the London venue was transformed into Springfield. Dad Homer and son Bart, left, were guests of honour AFP EXTRA, COVER STORY

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• DSG seeks sale of The Link retail arm to Telefonica's O2

  - 2006-06-21

  LONDON AFP — Pan-European electrical retailer DSG International has said that it is in talks to sell a majority stake in mobile phone chain The Link to Telefonica's British subsidiary O2 for 30 million pounds (43.9 million euros, 55.4 million dollars). DSG added that it expected to create 3,000...

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• Spanish march into global big league continues with Telefonica O2 move

  - 2005-11-05

  MADRID, AFP — This week's 26.1-billion-euro (31.5-billion-dollar) bid by Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica for Britain's O2, the largest overseas deal ever launched by a firm from Spain, underlined the country's global push into the big league. The trend has been gathering pace over the past year across the cash-rich...

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