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Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham perform Good Times Bad Times from Led Zeppelin I 1969 debut album. The one-off Led Zeppelin reunion from the film Celebration Day was live in concert at O2 Arena, London on December 10, 2007. Good Times Bad Times is #7 on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Debut Singles Of All Time. If you ever doubt the genius of Jimmy Page, give a fresh listen to Led Zeppelin’s debut single: It’s under three minutes, but it gives everybody in the band a star-making solo spot. You don’t even reach the first verse before Bonzo hands your skull to you. “Good Times Bad Times” was calculated to be the world’s first taste of Zeppelin, their calling card for a whole new rock aesthetic. R.S. In 2020, Jimmy Page said that it is “really unlikely” that the band will ever play together again. The musician talked about a possible reunion with BBC Radio 2 while discussing the release of the Rolling Stones song “Scarlet” featuring him. At the time of The O2, we thought — myself, John Paul Jones and Jason [Bonham] — that there was going to… it was said that there were gonna be some more dates. It would’ve been really good to have done that after the O2, ’cause we’d put a lot of work into The O2 and we were really on it, y’know? But it didn’t come off.” “It seems really unlikely that there would be a tour in the future. Unlike Rolling Stones, they do sort of know that the fans love that — also I know that with Led Zeppelin [fans too]. But it doesn’t look as though there’s anything in the future, unfortunately. We’re talking about a concert that was gigantic at the time, but that was 2007: time passes, y’know?”
