I miss being able to browse racks of albums and CD's. I feel the same way about buying books. There is something about being able to pick up and handle an album or book before I commit to buying it.

I always liked their songs but they were at their peak before I was old enough to attend rock concerts.

Taco salad and diet root beer.

Homemade chicken noodle soup and Wheat Thins. Ddladner your charbroiled oysters look mighty tasty. What all do you put on them before you pop them under the broiler?

By persona are you referring to his image or to his style of guitar playing?

Is their a statue of limitations for civil suits? Clare Torry sued Pink Floyd (and won) over her contribution to The Great Gig in the Sky over thirty years after the release of Dark Side of the Moon. Of course, that case was in the UK and their civil laws are probably different.

You made several good points. I've never been a Yoko Ono fan, but I think many John Lennon fans unfairly blame her for Lennon's selfish, uncaring behavior. Lennon CHOSE to leave his first wife, Cynthia, for Yoko. He CHOSE to abandon Julian and to cut him out of his will.

Rock music is a commercial art form. Therefore, I don't blame any band for carrying on after the death of a key member. Their livelihoods are at stake so if they want to hire a new musician or singer to replace their deceased member I'm okay with it. I'm also okay with rock bands who decide to call it quits when a key member dies or leaves the band for any other reason.

The youngest of the remaining survivors are in their seventies now. Very soon the Holocaust will pass out of living memory. When I was a kid, my parents patronized a dry cleaner that was owned by Holocaust survivors though I didn't realize this at the time. It wasn't until the husband died and our local newspaper ran his obituary that I understood why he had a numeric tattoo on his wrist.

IMHO, the decision to call it quits was the best decision the surviving members could make at that time. Other posters have listed the many reasons why it was the right decision. However, I would have been okay with a resurrected Led Zeppelin anytime after Page's Outrider album. I don't think a resurrected Led Zeppelin would have lasted more than a few years but they would have new recorded music that was quite different from the Page/Plant projects.

Goody Two Shoes

Good question. If he wants that much square footage he should probably look for a property in one of the outer boroughs or even outside Greater London.

I hadn't considered this angle.

I have Nokia Trac Phone that requires a pre-paid card. It can access the Internet and do other things but I only use it for phone calls. I refuse to send or receive text messages. IMO, most people spend way too much time texting and ignore the people who are actually in a room with them while doing so. I guess I'm a Luddite at heart. I stay current with the technology I use in my job but I have little interest in technology for its own sake.

One thing I only recently discovered is that Plant and Page wrote Please Read the Letter for Walking Into Clarksdale. The version he and Alison Kraus recorded for Raising Sand is better known. Plant made great strides as a lyricist between 1980 and 1995, imo.

Isn't that Jimmy Page in the background in the photo below? Interesting factoid about him arranging The Yardbirds songs. I hadn't realized he played such a prominent role with them. I assumed that Keith Relf and Jim McCarty ran that band after Paul Samwell-Smith left. Btw, the guy on the left looks like Alan Clarke, The Hollies' lead singer, while the guy in the middle looking over his shoulder looks like a very young Graham Nash. How did I do Hollies fans?

Peppermint tea and a peppermint cookie.

Peppermint sugar cookies. I just made a batch for the holidays. The recipe is a basic sugar cookie with the addition of peppermint extract and crushed peppermint candy. They look festive, taste good and were easy to make.

Doing Christmas cards. I want to put them in the mail on Monday. Three down, seventeen more to go.

Did I miss something? I didn't read any snarky comments in that Plant interview.

Ian McLagan, keyboard player for The Small Faces and Faces and one-time Rolling Stones sideman died in Austin, Texas from a stroke on December 3.

Roasted pork shoulder with a sage and rosemary rub. Baked sweet potatoes in their jackets Kale and mustard greens sauteed in olive oil and garlic then splashed with balsamic vinegar Pillsbury crescent rolls

Is he known to have (had) a problem with alcohol or other substances?

I took a tip from Nigella Lawson and used my Thanksgiving leftovers to make an Asian turkey salad. I diced up some leftover turkey, shredded some Napa cabbage, diced some scallions and cilantro. I then made a dressing of soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, red pepper flakes, lime juice and canola oil. I tossed the turkey, cabbage, scallions and cilantro with the dressing, sprinkled in a cup of peanuts and voila. I'm eating it with a leftover dinner roll I reheated up then spread with butter and homemade cranberry sauce. Now if only I could find a way to re-purpose the cornbread stuffing. I welcome any ideas about that.