Registration for the chance to gain tickets to the Led Zeppelin tribute concert for the late Ahmet Ertegun will be extended two days, organizers announced Friday. During a 12-hour period on Thursday alone, nearly 90 million attempts were made to register for the ticket lottery.
Well above 25 million people have reportedly registered for the Nov. 26 concert in London. The venue, the O2 Arena only holds 20,000. Approximately 850 tickets, which will sell for $2,000 and up a piece, have been set aside for U.S. corporate interest, according the organizers. Regular tickets will sell for about $250 each, of which there will only be about 18,000 available.
"The Web site has been receiving over five million hits per hour since the press announcement 24 hours ago," Harvey Goldsmith, the benefit concert organizer, told Billboard. "The service provider is doing their best to keep the site running and has moved it to a server on its own."
Registration has been extended from a midday on Sept. 17 to midday on Sept. 19. According to published reports, the O2’s site crashed at least once, and the dedicated site for registration was averaging more than 80,000 requests per minute.
Zeppelin will play "all the big numbers" in a "meaty" set of roughly two hours, Goldsmith told Billboard. The Who's Pete Townshend, Bill Wyman, Foreigner's Mick Jones and Paolo Nutini are also scheduled to perform.
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I've said for years that Led Zeppelin, because they have contined to gain large numbers of new fans through the years, while retaining their enormous and loyal fanbase from the 60's and 70's, are still, by far, the most popular band in the world. 120 million hits to obtain tickets in the first day, and still getting 80,000 hits a minute, I think I was right. Not a single music act in the world could create that kind of demand, and when you consider that this is only 75% of Zeppelin, it's just astonishing.
Best band in the world, to this day. People need to realize just how much they have effected everything in the music industry...they changed and also created a lot of things that have made it possible for others to get involved in music themselves...They never wrote a bad song. There's something to be said about that....Zeppelin rules and not another band comes close to doing what they did, musically and commercially...The Beatles, yeah, but in another way...their pop music not hard rock n' roll so you can't compare.... In the rock category Zeppelin is Jesus Christ or Satan (whatever you prefer)!!!!
rock on
Consider also, too, that "Stairway to Heaven" is still the most requested song for radio stations, far beyond anything else out there.
would give my left bollocks and right arm ++ anything else to get a ticket there going for £2.500 and above :O whares thar hamer and pink piggy bank