Jimmy Page confirms that Led Zeppelin may never play again

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page has announced that it is likely we will never see Led Zeppelin play together ever again.

Speaking to NME during a playback of the remastered editions of both Led Zeppelin IV and House Of The Holy, the guitarist explained: "I don't think it looks as though that's a possibility or on the cards, so there's not much more I can say about that.

"I'm not going to give a detail-by-detail account of what one person says or another person says. All I can say is it doesn't look likely, does it?"  

The announcement comes after Robert Plant has repeatedly expressed his lack of interest in reforming the band. He told a Moroccan press concerence earlier this year that Page "needs to go to sleep and have a good rest, and think again." The Led Zep frontman explained: "We have a great history together and like all brothers, we have these moments where we don’t speak on the same page but that’s life."

Plant went further with Uncut in June. "I feel for the guy. He knows he's got the headlines if he wants them. But I don't know what he's trying to do. So I feel slightly disappointed and baffled."

Recently Plant also told the title that he preferred playing with his new group. "We’ve been all around the world, setting places on fire and it’s so much better to do that than to bathe in the tepid bathtub of old hits." 

During the Q&A to mark the reissues Page expressed his own desire to go beyond that 'tepid bathtub'. He discussed the idea of forming in a new band, much in the same way that Plant has taken up with the Sensational Space Shifters. "If I was to play again it would be with musicians that would be… some of the names might be new to you. I haven't put them together yet but I'm going to do that next year.

"If I went out to play, I would play material that spanned everything from my recording career right back to my very, very early days with The Yardbirds. There would certainly be some new material in there as well."

Page added: "I love playing live, I really do. Live concerts are always an interesting challenge because it means you can always change things as you're playing every night. You can make it even more of an adventure. I would play all of the things I'm known to play – instrumental versions of 'Dazed And Confused' etcetera, etcetera…"