Whoa! Jimmy Page to perform at the Olympic Closing Ceremonies TONIGHT! (8/24/08)

[Fritzo]

Jimmy Page will be joining Leona Lewis, winner of British reality show 'The X Factor', for a 4 minute performance at todays closing ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.

They will perform a newly arranged four minute version of the Led Zeppelin classic 'Whole Lotta Love' during the handover ceremony between Beijing 2008 and London 2012 officials.

The closing ceremonies will begin today (Sunday August 24th) at 8:00PM Beijing time. The eight minute handover to London 2012 - which includes Page's four minute performance is scheduled to occur - less than three hours from the very moment during which this email is being sent out - at 9:30PM Beijing time, equating to 2:30PM in the London time zone, 9:30AM in the New York City time zone, 6:30AM in Los Angeles, etc...

This years closing ceremonies, live from Beijing, China will be televised around the world, with an estimated audience of almost 2 billion people watching. The event will be beamed live via satallite feed, as it happens, to broadcast television and pay-per-view outlets all over the planet. Some pay-per-view feeds will also be streaming the event over the internet, although determined people should be able to tap into some of the many mirror sites planning to stream the ceremonies for free, with on demand recordings being posted for those hoping to watch at a later time. When the Opening ceremonies started popping up on site such as You Tube, they were sometime quickly removed by demand of the IOC. Many other media outlets around the world - such as NBC, for example, own the broadcast rights within the USA and plan to show a tape-delayed airing of the closing ceremonies during this Sunday evenings Prime-time slot.

Jimmy Page, explaining how the permission to use Led Zeppelin's 'Whole Lotta Love' came about, said that "Initially they requested to use 'Whole Lotta Love'. Then it was 'you can play guitar on it if you want to'. Then it was said Leona was going to sing on it, and it just got a momentum of it's own. It's going to be really great. The Olympics... bring a whole spirit of optimism to London and it's going to be fantastic."

Hope it's a good show!!!

 

[Fritzo]

LOL- I love the Internet: It's already on Youtube! 😀 Too bad the stupid announcers DON'T KNOW HOW TO SHUT UP.

 

[Throckmorton]

Whole lotta love? Wtf?

 

[lucasorion]

For the first time, I might be willing to join a Bill O'Reilly boycott of France

 

[UncleWai]

It's a shame that the performance was really out of place and dwarfed by the Chinese performance afterward.
What a waste of Jimmy Page, he should have busted out the Immigrant song, that would be funny.

 

[Analog]

Why didn't they play the Lemon Song?

 

[KK]

yeah, the olympics are over. :thumbsup:

 

[Fenixgoon]

for some reason, i find the singer really hot :heart: :Q

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
LOL- I love the Internet: It's already on Youtube! 😀 Too bad the stupid announcers DON'T KNOW HOW TO SHUT UP.

thanks for the link
i like whole lotta love, but its not my favorite.

my brother learned the solo when he was about 12, while wearing a cast, as he had broken his arm.

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: xSauronx

Originally posted by: Fritzo
LOL- I love the Internet: It's already on Youtube! 😀 Too bad the stupid announcers DON'T KNOW HOW TO SHUT UP.

thanks for the link
i like whole lotta love, but its not my favorite.

my brother learned the solo when he was about 12, while wearing a cast, as he had broken his arm.

Holy shit, someone call Van Halen and let them know we've found Eddie's replacement. Stat.

 

[illusion88]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
for some reason, i find the singer really hot :heart: :Q

yup. She's hot

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: illusion88

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
for some reason, i find the singer really hot :heart: :Q

yup. She's hot

..no doubt. great voice. :thumbsup:

 

[Psynaut]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Holy shit, someone call Van Halen and let them know we've found Eddie's replacement. Stat.

This statement made me ROFL.



Thanks for posting this OP, that gave me chills. She did the song justice, I think Robert Plant would approve. I recognize the guitar he was playing as the same guitar he played in the Live Concert Movie from the 70's. What unbelievable arrogance on the commentator's part to talk during a third of the performance; my friend probably Tivo'd this, I'll have to go see the American vrsion at her place today.

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: xSauronx

Originally posted by: Fritzo
LOL- I love the Internet: It's already on Youtube! 😀 Too bad the stupid announcers DON'T KNOW HOW TO SHUT UP.

thanks for the link
i like whole lotta love, but its not my favorite.

my brother learned the solo when he was about 12, while wearing a cast, as he had broken his arm.

Holy shit, someone call Van Halen and let them know we've found Eddie's replacement. Stat.

LOL :thumbsup: sir

 

[rbV5]

Wow, Bob got his pipes back :shocked:

 

[jjones]

Awesome, but why couldn't those french announcers just stfu? Hopefully someone will put up another version without those friggin frogs.

 

[Psynaut]

My friend said it will be on in the US tonight, so hopefully the US announcers will STFU.

 

[Tom]

is that joe biden ?

 

[Shadow Conception]

The violinist is hot as fuck. Who is she?

Also, was that soccer player Zidane?

 

[middlehead]

Jimmy got old 🙁