Not that Zeppelin in Bonnaroo lineup
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 6, 2008 | 1:03 PM ET
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Metallica and Pearl Jam — but not Led Zeppelin — will headline the 2008 Bonnaroo Arts and Music Festival, a June festival held on a farm near Manchester, Tenn.
Several media outlets, including the Daily Telegraph in the U.K. and Associated Press, had become unduly excited over the "Zeppelin" act featured in the lineup.
But it wasn't Led Zeppelin, the British superband who reunited for a single show in London in December, but rather Lez Zeppelin, the all-female cover band.
News outlets around the world carried the news — mistaken as it turned out — that the beloved British band would be making a U.S. appearance.
Fans have been hoping that Led Zeppelin would be embarking on a reunion tour since the group's appearance at London's O2 arena last year.
However, Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant and bluegrass star Alison Krauss, with whom he is currently touring, are confirmed for the Bonnaroo festival.
They have a hit duet album together, Raising Sand.
Concert organizers announced a lineup Wednesday that included Canadians Broken Social Scene and Tegan and Sara.
Also scheduled to perform in the seven-year-old festival are Kanye West, Jack Johnson, My Morning Jacket, Willie Nelson, B.B. King, Phil Lesh and Friends, Sigur Ros, the Raconteurs, Against Me! and Death Cab for Cutie.
It will include a comedy tent featuring artists such as Zach Galifianakis, David Cross, Janeane Garofalo and Mike Birbiglia.
Bonnaroo is scheduled for June 12-15.
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