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...Investors in 1979 paid about $7,500 for a set of three 1930 U.S. Zeppelin stamps at auction-a big increase over the 1961 price of $175. But this year at a California auction, the stamps' sale price fell...
High fuel costs are also spurring the return of lighter-than-air dirigibles. The British firm Airship Industries is developing a 600-ft. freight-carrying airship. Unlike the ill-fated zeppelin Hindenburg, whose 1937 explosion at Lakehurst, N.J., doomed airship travel, the new dirigibles will be filled with inert, nonflammable helium rather than potentially dangerous hydrogen. Britain's Redcoat Cargo Airlines will take delivery of four of the $9.5 million skyships beginning in 1984. The airline claims that they will cost slightly less to operate than a jumbo jet and have 56% more cargo space. The airships, which will...
DIED. John ("Bonzo") Bonham, 32, drummer for the British rock group Led Zeppelin; of still undetermined causes; in Windsor, England. A retiring type offstage, living on a Worcestershire farm with his wife, son and daughter, Bonham had an exuberant style on the drums described by Rolling Stone magazine as "the aural equivalent of watching Clint Eastwood club eight bad guys over the head with a two-by-four while driving a derailed locomotive through their hideout...
Several of these antiques, including Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones, have adjusted to current trends, trying to retain some of their grandeur, but one survivor has refused to change his tune. Neil Young highlighted 1979 with his Rust series, a three-part statement that reaffirms his faith in rock and in himself...
...never permitted festival seating. The Garden had 200 security people, 100 ushers and 20 supervisors at their Who concerts in September. "I paid $7,800 for security and staffing fees," says Curbishley. "Where was that security Monday night?" Riverfront Coliseum concerts by Elton John in 1976 and Led Zeppelin in 1977 had resulted in serious crowd incidents. Now Curbishley and The Who are talking to other rock groups, lobbying for legislation that will establish some guidelines for large concerts. "But," says Kenny Jones, "do eleven kids have to die before you hire a few extra guards?" Cincinnati will hold public...