Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant tore up Sir Richard Branson’s £500million contract to reform the band for a 35 date tour, it has been reported.
Even though the other members of the widely-adored rock band had agreed to the record-breaking deal, the band’s frontman, 66, ripped up the document in front of promoters.
It is estimated the tour would have made Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones £190million each before tax.
A source close to the group told the Sunday Mirror: ‘They have tried to talk him round but there is no chance.
‘His mind is made up and that’s that.
‘When he said no and ripped up the paperwork he had been given, there was an enormous sense of shock.’
For a band that broke up in 1980, following the death of the drummer John Bonham, interest in Led Zeppelin remains intense.
