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After Led Zeppelin's successful comeback show at the London O2 Arena in 2007, it was only because of Robert Plant that the band didn't continue on.
Fans were convinced that the show would lead to at least a reunion tour, if not new material - and they weren't alone in thinking that. Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham all expected to play more shows and were even looking into recording some new songs.
But Robert Plant was too busy to join them and, as Jimmy Page says, they gotta have a singer.
Page told Rolling Stone, "Some of us thought we would be continuing, that there were going to be more concerts in the not-too-distant-future. Because there was a lot of work being put into the show.
"[Plant] was busy. He was doing his Alison Krauss project. I wasn't fully aware it was going to be launched at the same time. So what do you do in a situation like that?
"I'd been working with the other two guys for the percentage of the rehearsals at the O2. We were connecting well. The weakness was that none of us sang."
Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones at the premiere of Celebration Day
Although the remaining three members carried on working together - even trying out some guest singers - in the end they called the project off.
Page added, "We didn't do any professional recording. We just had a little digital recorder. I thought it was good. I wasn't going to walk away from it. But the weakness came up again.
"It was, 'We gotta have a singer. It sounded premature [with the guest singers]. I could see what way it was going. Various people thought we should go on tour. I thought we needed a good, credible album, not do something that sounded like we were trying to milk The O2.
"We had put so much toward The O2. And the three of us were catching up with stuff. It was very good, seriously promising. But there was this other thing going on. And that's it."
Watch Led Zeppelin performing 'Black Dog' below:
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