Led Zeppelin to Kick Off 2025 U.S. Tour in Maryland
Some say it’s an urban legend, never happened. Others swear they heard a first-hand account from their older brother’s friend Kenny the next day. A 2013 documentary, “Led Zeppelin Played Here,” was inconclusive on whether the iconic rock band performed a set for 50 local teenagers in a Wheaton, Maryland gymnasium on January 20, 1969.
None of that matters anymore. Led Zeppelin is coming to Wheaton in April 2025.
Officials from producer Live Nation and Montgomery County announced Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones will kick off the U.S. leg of their upcoming “Zoso Reimagined” tour in conjunction with the grand re-opening of Westfield Wheaton Plaza with its retractable dome roof.
The iconic rockers are performing as Led Zeppelin for the first time since 2007 and will be joined by drummer Zippy Erdelyi, son of legendary punk rocker Tommy Ramone.
The European leg of Zoso Reimagined begins this summer along with the release of Wearing and Tearing, the band’s first new album since 1982. In a December interview with Lemon Squeezings, band front man John Paul Jones called Wearing and Tearing, the “second coda to Coda, Led Zeppelin’s quintessential album.”
“This is something I have dreamed about for more than 50 years, since the day in 1969 when I was the sound man for Led Zeppelin at The Wheaton Youth Center,” a teary-eyed Montgomery County Executive Mark Elrich told reporters. Elrich is one of a handful of people who claim they were there. “I’ll never forget, it was the same night as Richard Nixon’s inauguration,” he said.
With the dome fully retracted, Westfield Wheaton Plaza will be transformed into an open-air concert arena. General admission floor sections and temporary bleachers lining the 750-foot-long interior plaza will allow 42,000 ticket holders, Live Nation officials say.
After the Wheaton concert, Led Zeppelin embarks on a 22-city, coast-to-coast tour leg that wraps with a free outdoor concert at Belton-Mark Twain Park in Detroit’s newly revitalized Fiskhorn neighborhood.
Tickets for Zoso Reimagined go on sale next year through Ticketmaster.
