Led Zeppelin - Live Aid Backstage Interview, July 13, 1985
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- Here is a really great interview with John Paul Jones, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and Phil Collins. This interview was conducted backstage after Led Zeppelin did their short set. This concert happened at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, PA.
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Jonesie being humble and dignified as usual. Led Zeppelin’s secret weapon
Defo mate👍🏻 Jones was the best part of Zeppelin.
John Paul Jones: exists
Lmao 😂
Good thing Robert Plant could answer all these questions. As for Jimmy Page, I think he was so stone, he could not articulate a word. Thank God he quit the drugs, because he is still with us and is a beautiful older gentleman.
Love it!! Page is totally hammered...
Looks more like he was still using heroin.
1:54 Page's face eyebrow upon Plant saying, I have my own career.😁
Yes, I noticed that too 🤣
Me too. ❤
Does Jimmy say one only word ?
jimmy page hasn't done anything since other than ' the firm"
I've always thought it was a thinly veiled dig at Phil Collins
"lot of ragged edges" ....major understatement.
I suspect Jimmy was struggling a bit in 1985. (I love these guys.)
I bet his coke was as pure as it comes.
Hadn’t picked up the guitar in 5 years and descended into a drug addiction. Looked like he was gonna die on stage
If by struggling you mean coked out of his damn mind, yes you are correct.
@@jokkergar that would be heroin, Jimmy wasn’t a coke head, heroin is why he sucked and why he couldn’t speak in the interview.
@jordanlacombe4318. *No one forced Page to become a junkie, you have to wonder why he started doing heavy drugs during a period when Zep were the most famous band in the world. At that point, Page had been working in the music business since his late teens, surely he knew the pitfalls of heroin and coke abuse, he's certainly not a stupid person. IIRC, he started doing heroin in 1975-76. Since we get very little info directly from Page himself, most info is from people who were close to the band. Page did say his autobiography will be released after his death. I take that info with a huge grain of salt.*
WE did Love every minute of it! That's why I paid $240 for 3 tickets at 17 years old for general Admission on the field. I took my little Brother and good friend. That was an insane amount of money to me back then. But this would be my only chance to see my Idols, my favorite band in the word. General admission was $35 and I bought from a scalper for $80 a piece. 🤣 Times have changed no doubt. We were kids, had no provisions or money for that 16-hour concert that we left in the middle of the night the day before to get there, we even ran out of gas on the way there. We walked straight to the front of the stage side stepping the blankets everyone had laid out to mark off their territory and found our own little space to stand because we wouldn't be denied. Everyone who was anyone in 1985 and before was there. What a show!
The three of them were very adorable and how Jimmy smiled throughout the interview but the saddest thing is that Bonzo was no longer alive to be with his colleagues
Jimmy still is always smiling, like he never had a bad day.
Jimmy was so high all he could do was smile.
That’s no smile my friend. That’s called being absolutely ZOOTED
@@philipdru9290 yes my first thought.
He was still "chemically induced" at this stage
@@scottburns2600 it’s okay to smile if/when one is high, right?
So handsome Sir Jimmy Page here!
He looks terrible here! I don’t see handsome at all!
Wtf
Certo, ancora molto bello e moooolto sexy 🔥 qui, ma lo è stato ancora di più anni prima. Lo hanno un po' rovinato tutte le varie droghe e alcool 😤 qui non riesce a spiccicare parola da quanto è ubriaco
Thank you for sharing incredible interview with the great legends of music👍🔥🔥
Thank you Mark.
Robert Plant was a great showman and a beautiful singer outrageous. Jimmy page,shy boy.lol can't even believe his guitar playing. But John Paul Jones now that it's the best looking man in the group barnun so handsome when I was teenager, I. ❤still love that man. He's still better looking than the other 2. Even in his older age, I'm just saying jonesy fan.
Theyre all good looking. Page with the more boyish face. But I think Bonzo is a very good looking man too along with Jones
Very wise words from Robert 👍💙
if there was any doubt that Jimmy was smacked out during the LiveAid set, this interview kills that doubt.
Seems more coked out to me (you can see him playing with his nose) and I know he did heroin too but anytime I've seen someone shoot heroin they just nod off. I've never done it so I don't know for sure.
@@royharper2003 Jimmy to this day has a habit where he is flicking at his nose when he is being interviewed. I think it's a tic and not necessarily coke. That said, it's possibly coke here.
There was never any doubt..
He was in the throes of his addictions, and I believe that it wasn’t long before he got clean. He was so thin here. His face is so different. I think he had been drinking quite a bit on this day as well. Whatever, he is healthy and so happy now.
@@zoso73 that’s true.
Thanks for posting man, I don't recall this from back in the day, a good find!✌️👍😊
I don't care how glitchy the set or monitors were, or if 'Pagey' was off of his face, I loved every minute.✌️😊 Sometimes when I tune up (guitar), I do it how JP did it on that day and then, like him, go straight into Whole Lotta Love. 👍✌️✌️
Saddest thing, apart from Bonzo not being there in body? NOTHING has changed, the super elites the unelected oligarchy, evil, still reigns supreme and we keep letting them! Sorry to be a buzz kill but it needs saying and thinking about. It seems that Robert Plant touched on it with the boat load of whiskey story.🤔😕😕💩🤔
No one prepared, the monitors were said to be really bad like the start of 2007 reunion. I remember Zeppelin’s set prompted a huge surge in donations which was the point! It was a great effort all in all by everyone and hopefully it reduced suffering and saved some lives! 🙏❤️
Jonesy feeling totally uncomfortable sitting on his hands like a child in kindergarden when confronted with the home truth. 😄 And he was the best in this inglorious performance.
He was the best since 75
Notice at 5:53 timestamp, when asked any chance Zeppelin could play together again, After a long pause where noone seemed to want to advert, Robert said a solid YES, but Pages head was shaking NO. Whether subconsciously, definitively or drunkenly, this quite held true... THEN, upon further inquiry by the host, abd the previous awkward silence, Robert changed the subject, opting instead to promote his upcoming gigs, while Page simply did NOT respond AT ALL, then dropped his butt on the floor as if to signify in visual terms- DONE. How can you really dislike the company of each other SO MUCH, after making literal musical magic with each other for over 10 years!? Imagine being Jones and knowing firsthand the tension between those two, his flat affect shows he has zero say in getting to play with his band again. Only time would tell he would get only one more chance to indulge himself and the rest of us, 12 years after this Live Aid moment. 😪 Perhaps Jimmy is just on his high horse here (literally) and we all know he would rather share the same room with satan, than Robert Plant. And, certainly he has...Dude is DARK. I think the joke about the girlfriend- was prob referring to a prostitute they saw leaving Jimmy's room...hence the joke "What was her name?" This cracked plant up, but prob irked Jimmy, that seemed to have caused a lapse in his smiling. 😅 Hah! BUSTED Mr. Aleister Idolizer! It's no wonder he holds a grudge for so long...
😂 👍🏻 nice one mate..page is dark. And a pedo. I fuxing can't stand page..smh..
Le geste de JPJ vers Phill Collins que Robert oublie dans son commentaire
" three guys". Quelle attention aux autres, cet homme. J' ai une folle admiration pour lui, chaque fois que je le vois sur YT.
Robert Plant: Gets Interviewed
Phil Collins: Gets Interviewed
Jimmy and Jonesy: *Exists*
Cool stuff 😉
I was 15. I liked Ac/dc and Kate Bush. Then I saw this...Much makigned, but it changed my life. Stairway (1st time I'd ever...) given the day, was, for me, a spiritual experience. Nothing else, missed cues, strained vocals, matters...🌹
Robert Anthony Plant (West Bromwich, Inglaterra, 20 de agosto de 1948) es un músico, compositor y productor británico, conocido mayormente por haber sido cantante de la banda de rock Led Zeppelin desde su fundación en 1968 hasta su separación en 1980.
Robert scorched earth plant. Love that guy. He has a reason for not coutowing to the machine
Damn.. jimmy was lit.. lol still the greatest
"The three of us knew what we were doing and the others that tried to help us did their very best" HA HA!
If you know the story behind it all, you'll know why this is funny. 😆 What a fantastic moment in time though. LOVE THIS!
it was a complete disaster - I remember cause I watched it live - they sounded out of tune and it was terrible - Robert Plant clearly was not into it at all -
Let's be honest, Jimmy Page blamed Phil Collins for the horrible performance. But, the real problem was Page.
All them fucked up. Except for Jones….obviously
tbh plants vocals were not on point, the drummers did visibly fuck up some but that’s understandable, page def was not at his best to say the least.. but jones was on point except im pretty sure he showed up last and that’s why the rehearsal was so short
That's because page is bullshite. He thinks he's god and can do no wrong..I never like page anyway...but he shouldn't have blamed Phil. Everyone except Jones was crap. But most of it 99% was pages crap playing.
I think Jimmy held a grudge against Collins due to his involvement on Plants 1st album. Phil Collins was really encouraging towards Plant going solo. Jimmy wanted to start a new band with Plant. Which never happened, Plant went on to have a solid solo career. Page didnt make a good album until Coverdale Page.
Thats all asumptions 🤷♂️
@@messi8921 I disagree "Outrider" was a good album. In fact, it was better than some of Plant's albums.
I watched the televised performance that day. And NO BODY WAS CALLING IT SLOPPY. Everyone was freaking out that Zeppelin was actually playing again and losing their minds. Hind sight is always 20/20. Page obviously is struggling with substance abuse as this interview clearly shows. But he’s still The Hammer of The Gods! The man’s riffs are still captivating new generations 50 plus years after he wrote them.
thx
Whatever happened good or bad, they played. Don’t blame anyone!
Page is lit!
Robert and JPJ must have been so internally upset after the show
Annoying when the interviewer asks 'did you two (Page and Plant) get together before this to practise?' and John Paul Jones is sitting right there, not included in the Led Zep talk. Then his name doesn't get on the screen, AND when he speaks, the interviewer is surprised, as in, who the hell are you?! And on his face, weary resignation. Bad.
I admire them for taking a risk and supporting the event. Also the poor performance spurred them on to the superb Celebration Day.
taking a risk of what ? they played thousands of show's over the yrs - what superb celebration day are you talking about ? it was a fucking disaster from the word go and by the time everyone got paid there wasn't hardly any $ left to give
Robert: I'm in my 80's I have my own Career. 🤣🤣🤣👍
He is an ego maniac. If it weren’t for Jimmy Page he would be laying blacktop.
Look at Johns and Jimmy’s faces when he said that, I think it’s telling?
I think there’s still grudges from the three surviving members from their time together in the 70s
@@bartpitt2991 I concur, Bart. It’s just a little odd for Plant to say that after the first time back together in a long time.
Maybe somewhere in his heart, Page wanted to keep the band together after Bonham?
@@romyarmada2521 still a bit of a mystery to be fair isn’t it
Jimmy is ripped!!! 🤣🤣
I was there in Philadelphia that day....shaky set and all, I wouldn't trade the experience for the world.
Must have been amazing.
The Miami Vice look........🤣😂
Silly boys ❤️😀✌️
You can hear Duran Duran in the background.
That went down like a LED TURD
Jimmy was a bomb head that day . Look at his reaction when Robert says he's got his own career in the 80s. Haha. 😂
GD, the interview was painful too..
James Patrick Page OBE (Heston, Middlesex, Inglaterra, 9 de enero de 1944) es un músico multiinstrumentista y un virtuoso guitarrista de rock clásico británico; fundador del grupo Led Zeppelin desde 1968 hasta su disolución en 1980. Es considerado uno de los más grandes, influyentes y versátiles músicos y guitarristas de todos los tiempos.
the reason why the not so great page plant jones live aid performance happened was because robert didn.t want to go on stage with eric clapton or power station and jimmys the firm cancelled the rest of their tour because paul rodgers injured himself but i still would.ve love to have been there regardless
Nice - didn't know this existed although I've read Plant's quotes in Hammer of the Gods. Jimmy isn't very coherent though...
As usual, Collins is as humble as JPJ. He did his best given the circumstances. If the three surviving members had wanted to proceed, Collins would easily have filled in for Bonham. Plant and Collins were good friends.
Jimmy putting up a smiling front, I think he was pissed at Robert and Phil..
Jimmy's fried.
Yup, but he gets away with it. I always pay the consequences…
Yeah and he was pissed himself
I doubt that Peter Grant approved of them taking part?
If page owned up and say yeah I was off my knockers people would say fair enough 😂
What the he'll are they talking about.
Such a shame that most of the money from this ostensibly noble cause ended up in the pocket of a dictator. Very few people who actually needed help got it.
This feels a lot more Phil Collins than Led Zep
Ridiculous. Phil is very likeable but he needed to say as little as possible here.
Phil felt extremely uncomfortable during that interview and only did some talking because the others were being so rude 😮
Robert savagely trolled Phil Collins when he said "I'm in the 80s I have my own career" because Collins said the very same on Aspel about himself & career away from Genesis but people think Robert was having a pop at Jones & Page. Nope. He was trolling Phil who didn't have a clue.
most intimidating job ever trying to interview these guys and knowing that whatever you say is prob gonna crash and burn. They also just did a gig which was famously one of the technical clusterf*ks of all time.... normally these guys have entire production crews and hours to sound check, this one was completely winging it while the entire world is watching. Freddie Mercury gave us a masterclass in winging it that day, never even broke state.. these guys look like they are recovering from a nightmare gig.
phil hard carried the performance and led zep owe their career to him
An absolute awful performance they did on Live Aid😫 Anyway thanks for the upload, this was recent!
Paul Martinez ……is the guy standing behind John Paul jones …..nice bloke from London……😃🇸🇪🫵🥛👻👀……€:-)
Page should only be honored for having a chance to play with Phil. Jealous of Roberts solo career ? And who played drums on his tour?
That interviewer is Wild rude wow, anybody know who it is?
Alan Hunter, one of MTV’s original five, and due to a glitch, the first on the air.
was the Mtv interviewer subtly giving them shit?????
5:58
Journalist: Would you ever play again with this guys?
Plant: ......Yes.
And Robert's face, lmaooo🤣😂😭
And jimmys slow nod 😂😂😂
I'd be curious where the money did go
Curious enough to research it?
See my comments above. It's like foreign aid out of the UK (the US et al do the same), often, I suspect, goes straight to some puppet dictator who then comes back to buy weapons from the military industrial complex in the country that supplied the foreign aid. A friend had a promising career in aviation manufacturing. He quit, why? The training aircraft he was working on, were sold, using foreign aid to buy them, in an up armoured form, to a dictator to use to bomb his own people. The love of money, the root of all evil. And many modern charities are merely cons too, in the UK ex male soldiers rot on the streets whilst two key charities sit on mountains of cash and pay their CEOs a fortune. Live Aid? I've never researched where all the money went, but I bet it didn't all get to where it was most needed or even meant to go?
@@musoseven8218 I don't know about buying weapons but I don't really trust any charities or fund raising activities anymore. Even if money went to countries that needed it their leaders/government probably pocketed the majority of the money and spent little to help the crises it was meant to help.
@@ChrisLawton66 yes but I doubt there is a reliable source anywhere.
@@royharper2003 These times? Truly are a cross between, 1984 (no pun intended), Animal Farm, They Live, The Matrix and Society, oh and perhaps Lord of the Rings too. Eg two UK charities for old soldiers? Sat on mountains of cash and still there are many homeless veterans struggling with issues such as PTSD. Shame on MOD/Govt, shame on the highly paid CEOs of said charities. And predictably so, after the passing of Cpt Tom, his fund raising monies are being investigated as they've gone awry too. Sadly I think he was used - wasn't his daughter friends with Boris Johnson??
They are stoned out of their f'n minds lmao!
And Africa is still Africa...
Sad fact
Nah some parts are finally seeing amazing growth other yes stuck in poverty
Let's be between the stage & scaffolding - where I was & taped everything (except for BSabbath-'Nature's call'- perfect timing. I went to see Zep from Boulder,Co>Dnvr>DC/MD's suburbs & annNBC NEWS van was ready for the arrival of this Guy from the mountains of Colorado to pick up 4tix & we drove late night to Philly for a Zep show- as I said on the NBC 6:30 News edited any mention I'd made re ZEP "I CAME FROM BOULDER COLORADO FOR THIS. 'Really‽" (He'd apparently been told to get down to the ticket place after I had to call for the actual last directions & had told him I wasn't going to be happy if he didn't have what we'd agreed about: L.AID ×4 & coming from the distance I had & my 3Pals & I were counting on things working out. After that "Really?" I said "Are you kidding me‽ I came from Boulder,Co for this! A Led Zeppelin Reunion‽ I wouldn't miss this for The World (🌎
Youngs ! No one like you!
name or number
Did Page drink beer?
Townshend kicked the heroin in 83 and Page was on his later stages of it in 85..
Page was shit faced but managed. However PC f’d it up and the sound man. I mean how can you F up a ‘59 LP into a Marshall?
I don't think it squarely falls on Collins. some guitar or something also miscued at that breakdown. It was a whole cock-up by everyone
@@ata5855 multi facet for sure but plant and page played hundreds of showed horse and shit faced so they were mostly fine
However they didn’t have bonzo back there to carry them. Instead PC adding fuel to the fire and a nervous drummer in TT
Sounds like Plant slammed Phil Collins a little there.
Should have been either Phil or Tony Thompson playing drums. Not both. And even that might not have saved the shambles that was their performance, or the bigger shambles that was this interview.
Silly old boys
Plant seems rather annoyed.
Love how America had to borrow a lot of British acts for the American side of the show 🤣
That's because a lot of the british acts ripped off the black American musicians of the blues.
@@astroman30well in music, i guess everyone rips off everything..
I think this shows how disrespectful Page was towards Collins when he didn’t even know which day of the week it was
Rod Stewart hanging over the shoulders, mate
Jimmy is speak impedement drunk,high.
Wish they wore these clothes instead of those horrible baggy 80’s clothes. They look far more younger.
How were those colourful parachute clothes ever a good style 😂
Love Zeppelin and it pains me to say it but this gig was so bad it was an embarrassment, it wasn't just the elements and the PA as they mentioned Plant who i never thought was particularly great live was downright abysmal and the rest of them weren't much better.
ABSOLUTO DESASTRE. ESTOS NO SON LOS TIOS QUE YO CONOCI EN LOS 60
Alan Hunter was obnoxious forcing that mic into Robert's face. Wtf was that all about?
Jimmy is soo wired.
More like soo coked
Poor interviewer. Plant is mucking about giving vague answers trying to forget how awful their performance was, Page is too wasted to speak, JPJ is, in Phil's words "quieter than a church mouse" and Phil is trying desperately to save the interview and save whatever face he has left.
👊 p̴r̴o̴m̴o̴s̴m̴
Jimmy rather suspect.-)
Saw it first hand..... the WRONG 2 DRUMMERS......TOGETHER. lol. Historically known as the reunion that kinda sucked. No real rehearsal time....2 massive drummers of the day... it could have been THOR himself behind the kit and it still wouldn't be the one who is the greatest rock drummer who died after 43 QUADRUPLE WHISKEYS IN 2.4 HouRS. John Henry Bonham. Lol. Ps.... at this time page had been clean of heroin for a few years and it's noted as such. Jimmy during the time after bonhams death went into seclusion and stopped playing well as evidence of this effort and other notable sucking performances as the death wish sound track....the firm stuff ect..... he was clearly getting re-energized playing quality wise bout the time of the page plant album the Coverdale page thing and so on. He was great at the 02 reunion.... wanna see the smacked out jimmy page.....full blown....watch the knebworrh stuff. Junkie who had lost chops and wasn't faking this fact well at all. Maybe his worst.....period. The strongest page may have been between zep 4....through physical g ... but all the presence and coda ahit were old when finally released. Recorded in like 71 2 and 3 but never used. Example.....we're gonna groove. The alltime sleeper zep tune may be ......I'm gonna crawl. Thoughts?
Jimmy was so coked out, anyone could tell. The very last words of Alan Hunter on this interview was "Go clean your faces." Jimmy played awful. All he did was to get off heroin was to use more coke. I love Jimmy, but the early to mid 80s wasn't a good era for him.
Jimmy, lay off the black tar for half an hour. C'mon.
They was acting very strange I wonder if they was on drugs lol
Well JPJ and Robert were fine...
@@jimmycampbell78 u think so lol do u act talk like that lol when ur doing a interview lol lolol
I don’t think Jones or Plant were on drugs, no. What I think is that there was some awkwardness and embarrassment during this interview for a number of reasons.
The full context is that they had just come off stage at Live Aid after doing a set that was a disaster with Phil Collins filling in, and there had been no time to rehearse. Then the interviewer here is saying “Talk about what a significant event Live Aid is, your set was great- will you be getting back together? How much time did you have to rehearse?” Its embarrassing, and Robert is covering for Jimmy who is basically out of it. I hope that addresses the points you raised.
@@jimmycampbell78 Boring comment! Live Aid was all about the day. It didn’t matter what Zepp's set was like. The atmosphere was tremendous.
Jones make a million times more sense than Plant, wo talks too much
Robert Plant being a d-bag, Page is wasted, what an embarrassment.
Jimmy looks not good😅
Plant is snipey as if he is angry with Phil Collins etc. LZ was way bigger than Genesis in the 70s - was Live Aid Phil's revenge? "A ship load of whiskey" sounds like he is taking a shot at Phil and inebriated Page an at the same time.
I know where the money went - Aak Sir Bob Geldof, he knows too . Not bad for one song - I don’t like Mondays, now He likes everyday . Soon he’ll be a billionaire. Sadly he can’t take it with him cause it would only burn up . How are them African kids doing in 2024? A lot better since they kicked the west out .
Shameful performance that was!
They were awful and they know it. They played the simplist tunes and blew it.
Just cringe.
Jimmy is totally wasted...