Page & Plant

THE VERY IDEA of MTV as deus ex machina is enough to send shudders down the hardiest spine. But MTV it was who approached Robert Plant — otherwise busily engaged making records with unknown young-bloods, and insulting Jimmy Page for working with wellknown old-farts, David Coverdale specifically — and managed to whisper the right things in his ear that led him to do what he swore he never would (except for parties, weddings and bar mitzvahs): reunite Led Zeppelin.