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Jimmy Page has said that he has been looking through the Led Zeppelin archives to prepare expanded and remastered editions of the band’s albums.

Page told Mojo magazine:

“There are different versions of tracks that we have that can be added to the album[s], so there will be box sets of material that will come out, starting next year. There will be one box set per album with extra music that will surface.”

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A two-hour movie featuring Led Zeppelin’s 2007 reunion concert at London’s O2 Arena will be shown at cinemas across the world on October 17, before a DVD/Blu-ray release on November 19.

The movie, titled “Led Zeppelin – Celebration Day,” was directed by Dick Carruthers.

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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has revealed that the recipients of the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors will be Buddy Guy, Led Zeppelin, David Letterman, Dustin Hoffman and ballerina Natalia Makarova.

Kennedy Center Chairman, David M. Rubenstein, said “Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant transformed the sound of rock & roll with their lyricism and innovative song structures, infusing blues into the sound of rock & roll and laying the foundation for countless rock bands.”

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Sirius XM Radio has announced that it will broadcast a series of classic concert performances as part of the “Live from the BBC Vault” series.

“Live from the BBC Vault” will feature two different performances each week on various SiriusXM channels. The series will kick off with a 1973 BBC performance from Pink Floyd on SiriusXM’s Deep Tracks, channel 27, on Monday, October 3 at 10:00 pm ET. This will be followed by a 1997 performance by Radiohead.

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