Jimmy Page: NME's Festivals Fight Was Excellent, But Some Rock Critics Ego-trippers, Says Zep Man
Keith Altham, NME, 25 November 1972
IT SEEMS THAT, despite a few "huns in the sun", that good old heavier-than-air machine Led Zeppelin is still flying high. And with their first tour in well over a year selling out in under four hours, they might feel entitled to lift two fingers in the general direction of anyone who thought they were losing height.
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