Plant: 'Led Zeppelin are incomplete'

Robert Plant has said that he is avoiding a full Led Zeppelin reunion because the band are "incomplete".

The legendary rock group reunited without late drummer John Bonham for a one-off gig at London's O2 arena in 2007, but Plant has declined all other offers to extend the reformation.

Plant said he felt that the band had been "incomplete" since the death of Bonham in 1980.

Speaking to Ben Jones on Absolute Radio, he said: "I think the thing about it is really, is that to visit old ground, it's a very incredibly delicate thing to do.

"The disappointment that could be there once you commit to that and the comparisons to something that was basically fired by youth and a different kind of exuberance to now, its very hard to go back and meet that head on and do it justice."

He added: "No matter what you do, you have to really guard the discretion of what you've done in the past and make sure that you have all the reasons in the right place to be able to do something with absolute, total conviction.

"I mean, if my great award is to do this, then I don't want to do anything where we challenge what we did in the first place by just going back and visiting it without having a new, fresh makeover start."