Jimmy Page on Led Zeppelin: ‘Who else but me would have the authority to do this?’

Irish Times reports on the Led Zeppelin reissues :

The project took root around the last time Led Zeppelin performed on stage, at a tribute concert for Ahmet Ertegun, the music industry executive who signed them to Atlantic Records in 1968, in the winter of 2007, at the O2 arena in London. (That performance holds the record for the highest demand for tickets for a single show: 20 million in the queue for 20,000 seats.)

Page knew the task of curating and annotating the band’s back catalogue should fall to him. “Not only for myself, and my own curiosity, but also on behalf of everyone else. The other aspect of having me doing it was that if someone else had done it – which happens now and again, because some bands aren’t interested – important things might have been missed. Who else but me would have the knowledge and authority to do it? I just wanted for it to be right. For me, and I’m sure for all the fans out there, getting it right is the key.”

Legacy.