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Led Zeppelin.
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The greatest rock-and-roll band
of all tCBimSe.
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(cheering)
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Yeah.
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That's right.
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Better than the Beatles.
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Even better than Tenacious .
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(laughter)
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Yeah.
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And if you don't agree with me,
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it's because you never did
the Zeppelin marathon.
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The Zeppethon is
when yCBouS sit yWIouF1r 60an
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The thing that every true fan
must do at least once
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to Heavy Metal Mecca.
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Just ask anyone--
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from OCBliSver StWIonF1e 60to5n
and everyone in-between.
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(laughter)
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60Th5GeyN sang songs
about love...
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about Vikings...
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(laughter)
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...about Vikings making love.
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(laughter)
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You know,
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they say that Led Zeppelin
sold their souls to Satan.
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Come on, guys, you know you did!
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There's no other way to explain
your ungodly talents.
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thank you, because...
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I just want to say
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while you're in Hell,
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till the end of time.
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We love you.
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Hey, hey, mama,
said the way you move
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Gonna make you sweat,
gonna make you groove
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Ah-ah, child,
said the way you swing...
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Rock giants who strode
the world for ten years.
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Robert Plant grew up
in England's Midlands.
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was his everytCBhiSng.
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John had been playing drums
since he was five.
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The top guitarist
in London's recording sessions.
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Jonesy could play anything.
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Jimmy's band was breaking up,
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and he asked Jonesy
to form a neCBw Sone.
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Hey, Joe...
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...and found the raw blues
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John Bonham made it four.
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CB SPower chords.
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In the days of my youth
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I was told what it means
to be a man...
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Their first album burst rock
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Communication breakdown
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It's always the same
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Having a nervous breakdown
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Drive me insane
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The hammer of the gods...
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Around the world they went.
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Will drive our ships
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Sto new lands...
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Like gods of rock, unleashCBig
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the power of music...
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...setting nights on fCBirSe.
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There's a lady who's sure
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All that glitters is gold
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And she's buying
a stairway to Heaven...
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Their music brought us
to paradise.
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If the stores
are all closed...
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Masters-- one and all.
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Jimmy Page stole the lightning
from the heaveCBnsS.
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Robert Plant...
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I've...
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...seduced like the Devil.
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Been working from seven...
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John Paul Jones made poetry
out of every note.
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And John Bonham
was a man on fire.
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CB SHis de ath broke the ht
of the band.
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And a chapter of rock history
had come to a close.
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Now three, they followed
separate paths.
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Plant traveled from the sands
of Marrakesh
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to the bluegrass of Tennessee.
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Jones put his talents to work
behind the music,
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producing and scoring.
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And Page remains rock's
premiere virtuoso.
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Just one more time,
27 years later...
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Oh
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It's been a long time
si nce I rock and rolled.
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SB
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CB S They had us all over.
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It's been a long time
since I did The Stroll...
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Taking the seat of his dad,
Jason Bonham.
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Let me get back,
let me get back
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Let me get back...
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A band like no otherCB,S
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they sCBhoSok the world of ,
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and those vibrations
caCBn Sstill be felt toda.
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(applause)
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ANNOUNCER: The Kennedy Center
Honors will return
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with Lenny Kravitz.