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Stairway to Here.(Led Zeppelin at the O Arena in London, United Kingdom)(Concert review)

The New Yorker

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Last Monday, in London, Led Zeppelin played its first full live set since 1980, at the O Arena--formerly the Millennium Dome--which seats twenty-two thousand and was built in 1999, during the early, optimistic days of Tony Blair's tenure. (The giant spiked dome looks like a satellite that has crashed to earth, been filled with air, and turned into a mall done up with holographic snowflakes and futuristic blue lights.) Twenty million people applied in an online lottery for tickets to the concert and crashed the computer system. Before the show, tickets were going for more than a thousand dollars apiece on eBay. After all, this was a reunion that was not supposed to happen. ...

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