AFP reports:
LONDON (AFP) — A Led Zeppelin fan has paid 83,000 pounds (170,000 dollars, 116,000 euros) for a pair of tickets to the legendary rock group's upcoming reunion in London, the BBC said Thursday.
Kenneth Donnell from Glasgow paid the huge sum to see the band rehearse and perform in the one-off gig on 10 December, in an auction to raise funds for the BBC's annual Children in Need appeal.
Tickets for the gig were put on sale at 125 pounds in October.
Led Zeppelin split in 1980 following the death of drummer John Bonham, who choked on his own vomit following a drinking binge.
Lead singer Robert Plant Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones, with Bonham's son Jason on drums, will headline the gig, which was delayed from this month after Page injured a finger.
More than one million people applied for the 20,000 tickets after the reunion gig, a tribute to Ahmet Ertegun, the late founder of the Atlantic Records label, who signed the group in 1968.
Led Zeppelin have sold more than 300 million albums worldwide and the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.
