TODD RUNDGREN - RUNDGREN SLAMS 'GREEDY' LED ZEPPELIN

Singer-turned-music producer TODD RUNDGREN has hit out at LED ZEPPELIN's decision to reform for a second time - insisting frontman ROBERT PLANT is only doing it for the money. The group reformed for a one-off concert in London in December (07) but announced on Wednesday (06Feb08) plans to headline the 2008 Bonnaroo Arts and Music Festival in the U.S. Rudgren, who played at Britain's legendary Knebworth festival with the rockers in 1979, is convinced Plant is enjoying collaborating with Alison Krauss and doesn't have any real creative need to continue with his old band. And Rudgren is convinced it was the promise of a large financial reward that tempted Plant back to Zeppelin. He says, "Robert Plant will probably always have a gig somewhere. And the only reason for him to reunite with the Led Zeppelin thing is because it would just be huge money involved, I guess. "But he has an opportunity to play music that he feels like. Some music that he may feel actually more akin to than what he's, I guess, 'obligated' to do at this point with Led Zeppelin. "Everything that he did after he left Led Zeppelin was an octave lower (than the Zeppelin songs). And now he's got to go back and sing and scream at the top of his lungs."