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Richard Gehr | December 13, 2007

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  • By literally all accounts, Led Zeppelin put on a nice little old-fashioned rock 'n' roll extravaganza during Monday night's Ahmet Ertegun tribute in London's 02 arena. As David Fricke wrote in Rolling Stone: "It is also important to note that Zeppelin left the building without making any reference to their future together, if there is one—no 'See you next year!' or 'Until next time . . .' The only message they left behind was, 'We were the best—and still are.'"

  • And no, the Zep won't be playing the June 12-15, 2008, Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn., as had been rumored. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss will be there, however.

  • Sonny Cole's "Santa to the Moon," the Barnstompers' "Christmas Boogie," and Red Simpson's "The Old Christmas Truck" are just a few recent additions to MP3 blog Big Rock Candy Mountain's month-long festival of vintage seasonal rock, country, and hillbilly music. [via An Aquarium Drunkard]

  • Cultural exchange—it's back! Following a tour of China, the New York Philharmonic will perform in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Feb. 26.

  • Billy Joel neither sings nor plays piano on "Christmas in Fallujah," a new single inspired by soldiers' letters from Iraq. Cass Dillon, 21, sings on this caustic echo of Joel's earlier "Goodnight Saigon." Available on iTunes, the single benefits Home for Our Troops, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing specially adapted homes for severely injured service members.

  • Recorded on a wire recorder, "The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949" is the first live show by the legendary folksinger ever to turn up. Even Woody's son, Arlo Guthrie, had never heard his father perform. "It's not only that I hadn't heard him live," he told the Associated Press, "I hadn't heard many stories about him live." The 75-minute show consisted of two wire spools recorded by a Rutgers College student in Newark, N.J.

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