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LED ZEPPELIN - Guitarist Made Honorary Citizen Of Rio De Janeiro |
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Bloomberg.com is reporting that LED ZEPPELIN legend Jimmy Page was awarded
honorary citizenship in the state of Rio de Janeiro for his work with Brazil's
poor and abandoned children.
[http://www.bloomberg.com/]
Page, whose song "Stairway to Heaven" is still heard on U.S. radio more than thirty years after it was written, was honored for supporting "Casa Jimmy," a residential shelter. A 61-year-old London native, Page first went to Brazil in 1975, where he met up with Jim Capaldi, the drummer in the band TRAFFIC, whose Brazilian wife showed them Rio's slums. "I was visiting 20 years later to promote a record and at the time there was a lot of trouble in the favelas," Page said yesterday in an interview, using the Portuguese word for Rio's mountainside shantytowns. "The whole gravity of the situation hit me and I decided I wanted to try to do something to help." Read more at Bloomberg.com. [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aupa7W27tyiE&refer=europe] | ||
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