Report: ROBERT PLANT Joins Cancer Gig Line-Up
November 22, 2010, 13 years ago
According to Female First, LED ZEPPELIN singer ROBERT PLANT has joined the lineup for a cancer charity's fundraising concert after losing close friends to the disease.
The rock legend, as well as THE WHO, JEFF BECK, and DEBBIE HARRY, will take to the stage in London for A Concert For Killing Cancer, to raise funds for trials in photodynamic therapy (PDT) treatment.
Plant's manager Bill Curbishley explains the reason behind the star's participation: "Robert and I had lived through the final months and days of close friends battling with cancer, but also fighting to overcome the effects of their treatments.
"Only later we discovered that PDT could perhaps have saved their lives - and certainly given them some dignity in their final weeks."The gig will take place at the Hammersmith Apollo on January 13th.
Plant recently announced 15 North American tour dates which will kick off January 18th in Asheville, NC. Plant is supporting his latest album, Band Of Joy.
Tour dates include:
January
18 - Asheville, NC - Thomas Wolfe Auditorium19 - Pittsburgh, PA - Peterson Events Center (University of Pittsburgh)
21 - Ann Arbor, MI - Hill Auditorium
22 - Toronto, ON - Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
25 - Boston, MA - House of Blues
26 - Upper Darby, PA - Tower Theatre
28 - Mashantucket, CT - MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino
29 - New York, NY - Beacon Theatre
February
1 - Washington, DC - DAR Constitution Hall2 - Raleigh, NC - Raleigh Memorial Auditorium
4 - North Charleston, SC - North Charleston Performing Arts Center
5 - Atlanta, GA - Fox Theatre
7 - Charlotte, NC - Ovens Auditorium
8/9 - Nashville, TN - War Memorial Auditorium
