Led Zeppelin to tour, record without singer Plant

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LONDON (AFP) — Legendary rock band Led Zeppelin are planning to return to recording and touring -- without singer and frontman Robert Plant, bassist John Paul Jones told BBC radio.

Jones said the hard-rocking group were trying out different singers to replace Plant, who has repeatedly voiced his reluctance to join in a full reunion after a mammoth one-off gig at the O2 Arena in London last December.

Some 20 million people applied for 20,000 tickets for the charity concert -- the band's first full gig since they split in 1980 following the death of drummer John Bonham.

Jones said he, guitarist Jimmy Page and Bonham's drummer son Jason were keen to get out playing concerts again -- and were not hanging around waiting for Plant to change his mind.

"We...