£83,000 paid for Zeppelin tickets - yes, that is approx USD166,000!
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Tickets for the Led Zeppelin reunion originally cost £125 each

A Led Zeppelin fan has paid £83,000 for two tickets to the rock band's reunion concert, as part of an auction for the BBC's Children in Need.
BBC Radio 2 listener Kenneth Donell, from Glasgow, paid to see the band rehearse and perform on 10 December.

Listeners also bid £250,000 to have Aled Jones and Katie Melua perform an intimate gig, and £100,000 for VIP passes to 2008's F1 British Grand Prix.

Children in Need is raising funds for disadvantaged young people in the UK.

Led Zeppelin's three remaining members play together for the first time since 1988 in December's sold-out concert.

Pete Townshend, Bill Wyman and Paolo Nutini will also perform at the show, which is a tribute to Ahmet Ertegun, the late founder of Atlantic Records.

Tickets went on sale for £125 each in October.

Originally scheduled for 26 November, the concert was postponed for two weeks because guitarist Jimmy Page fractured a finger.

[news.bbc.co.uk]

£250,000 for Aled Jones and Katie Melua...

I'd need to spend at least that on psychiatric help after the gig.

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What's your favourite flavour?...........Cherry Red!!

And how pissed off will he be when he learns that due to Jimmys finger not healing , Ritchie Blackmore is deputising !!!!!!

Rehearsal would be fascinating. And it's for charity, so what the hell.