Jimmy Page and Robert Plant could be considered legends in their in their own middle eights! They're certainly legends from a long, bygone era - most notably the '70s.

If the over jubilant crowd that recently heaved into Madison Square Garden were anything to go by, this fact was all the more substantiated.

Knackered hippies with a penchant for dressing like Armenian refugees - replete with receding hairlines and personalities - sang and clapped and smoked and danced (if you can call it that) to nigh every song Messrs. Page and Plant decided to deliver.

And deliver they did.

It was a Led Zeppelin show minus the rhythm section. Instead of John Bonham and John Paul Jones, it was some young/hung/session/studs who have not only studied the myth of the Zep, but are replicating it to a degree of either breath-taking proportions or copycat plagiarism (depending on your viewpoint).

An array of material from Led Zeppelin's Volume III was dished out, of which "Gallows Pole" and "Since I've Been Loving You" were excellent. The latter in particular reached a high that surprised even Jimmy Page. Dressed in black trousers and red shirt, the former Yardbird was evidently having a great time.

The same applied to his partner in passion, ye olde pagan shag god himself, Robert Plant. Dressed completely in black and dancing like only he can - a cross betwixt a whirling banshee and the Glastonbury Tore - he proved to still be a singer of mega talent(s).

Who else can sing songs such as ‘Whole Lotta Love’ or ‘Black Dog’ with even half of the amount of sexual swagger?

The Egyptian ensemble were needless to say, awesome (especially on ‘Kashmir’). They added so much more to the sound in that hazy and mysterious manner; for if not for they, the Jimmy Page/Robert Plant reunion tour would be nothing more than an exercise in cashing in the chips of nostalgia.

But as it is, it's a show that needs to be seen.

Even if only to hear the old masters playing great music (as it should be) and watch the not so young tossers in the audience getting on down (as it shouldn't be)!