What we love most at the Open Thread is good writing. When I saw a THIRD well-written review of the Led Zeppelin London concert, reviews that were cl
December 26, 2007

Led Zeppelin photo from al Jazeera website What we love most at the Open Thread is good writing. When I saw a THIRD well-written review of the Led Zeppelin London concert, reviews that were clearly labors of literary love, I had to share. It's a thing to behold when fine art, in this case an amazing musical career and arguably the concert of the year, leads and inspires another kind of artist, the journalist, to greatness as well.

Instances by...

Salman Ahmed and Mark Levine at Al Jazeera,

Sasha Frere-Jones at The New Yorker,

and Ben Ratliff at The New York [effin] Times...

Open thread below...

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