Goldsmith Torn Between Grief And Greatness At LED ZEPPELIN Reunion
July 11, 2010, 14 years ago
Femalefirst.co.uk is reporting:
Music mogul Harvey Goldsmith almost missed out on the one-off LED ZEPPELIN reunion he helped stage in 2007 - because his father-in-law died as the supergroup were about to take the stage.
The British promoter put the Ahmet Ertegun tribute show together in London after meeting with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page at the label boss and producer's memorial.
Goldsmith introduced the show at the O2 Arena and then heard his wife Diana's father had died as he left the stage.
He tells CelebrityAccess.com, "It was very difficult. Very difficult. It was quite odd really. I went onstage and introduced the show. As I was walking offstage, my phone kept ringing. I kept switching it off. It'd ring again. When I got to the bottom of the stairs, I picked up the phone, and there was a call saying that my father-in-law had just died.
"I had to go and find my wife and tell her the news. She was upstairs watching the show. You can imagine the decision 'Do I go? Do I stay? What do I do?' Fortunately, my wife is quite strong.
She said, 'You have to stay here, I'll go.' My head was all over the place, as you can imagine". But he'd already achieved the near-impossible - by persuading Led Zeppelin to reform.
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