I'd like to see how much the artist actually sees from it. I'd bet a lot of money it is nowhere near that. Record companies use accounting practices that make Hollywood look simple and legit.

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I just listened to Meatloaf I would do anything for love AND I WORKED OUT WHAT MEATLOAF WOULDN'T DO, HE SAYS IT AT THE END OF THE FULL VERSION!

I'm gobsmacked.

"And I would do anything for love
I'd run right into hell and back
I would do anything for love
I'll never lie to you and that's a fact

But I'll never forget the way you feel right now
Oh no, no way
And I would do anything for love
But I won't do that
I won't do that
Anything for love
I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love
But I won't do that
I won't do that

Some days it don't come easy
Some days it don't come hard
Some days it don't come at all
And these are the days that never end

Some nights you're breathing fire
Some nights you're carved in ice
Some nights you're like nothing I've ever seen before
Or will again

Maybe I'm crazy
Oh, it's crazy and it's true
I know you can save me
No one else can save me now but you

As long as the planets are turning
As long as the stars are burning
As long as your dreams are coming true
You better believe it!

That I would do anything for love
And I'll be there till the final act
I would do anything for love
And I'll take a vow and seal a pact

But I'll never forgive myself
If we don't go all the way tonight!
I would do anything for love
Oh, I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love
But I won't do that
No, I won't do that

I would do anything for love
Anything you've been dreaming of
But I just won't do that

Somedays I pray for silence
Somedays I pray for soul
Somedays I just pray to the God
Of Sex and Drums and Rock 'N' Roll

Some nights I lose the feeling
Some nights I lose control
Some nights I just lose it all
When I watch you dance and the thunder rolls

Maybe I'm lonely
And that's all I'm qualified to be
There's just one and only
The one and only promise I can keep
As long as the wheels are turning
As long as the fires are burning
As long as your prayers are coming true
You better believe it

That I would do anything for love
And you know it's true and that's a fact
I would do anything for love
And there'll never be no turning back
But I'll never do it better than I do it with you
So long, so long
And I would do anything for love
Oh, I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love
But I won't do that
No, no, no, I won't do that
I would do anything for love
Anything you've been dreaming of
But I just won't do that

But I'll never stop dreaming of you
Every night of my life, no way
And I would do anything for love
Oh, I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love
But I won't do that
No, I won't do that

[Girl:] Will you raise me up?
Will you help me down?
Will you get me right out of this God-forsaken town?
Will you make it all a little less cold?

[Boy:] I can do that!
I can do that!

[Girl:] Will you hold me sacred?
Will you hold me tight?
Can you colorize my life?
I'm so sick of black and white...
Can you make it all a little less old?

[Boy:] I can do that!
Oh, oh, now I can do that!

[Girl:] Will you make me some magic
With your own two hands?
Can you build an emerald city
With these grains of sand?
Can you give me something I can take home?

[Boy:] I can do that!
Oh, oh now, I can do that!

[Girl:] Will you cater to every fantasy I got?
Will you hose me down with holy water
If I get too hot?
Will you take me places I've never known?

[Boy:] I can do that!
Oh, oh now, I can do that!

[Girl:] After a while you'll forget everything
It was a brief interlude and a midsummer night's fling
And you'll see that it's time to move on

[Boy:] I won't do that!
No, I won't do that!

[Girl:] I know the territory, I've been around
It'll all turn to dust and we'll all fall down
And sooner or later, you'll be screwing around...

[Boy:] I won't do that!
No, I won't do that!

Anything for love
Oh, I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love
But I won't do that
No, I won't do that"

And sooner or later, you'll be screwing around...

[Boy:] I won't do that!

Patrick Moore wrote in '04 that if he'd been ten years younger he'd have put himself forward as a UKIP candidate - I'd have liked to have seen that

Many of his views were very different to mine. I'm happy he mostly stuck to what I respected him for!

I've bought his autobiography (99p for Kindle-enabled devices like tablets ) and it's full of lines like, 'When the dinosaurs ruled the Earth millions of years ago (I was away at the time)...'

I might pick that up when I'm on holiday next month, but I've not finished the book I got about 3 years ago yet...

It's 99p until the end of this month IIRC, for that price you can dip in and out of it for years

When sleeping in water, seals only sleep one half of their brains at a time.
On land, they sleep the whole brain at once.

Thanks for that, Ernie, I've just bought it.

It's one of those books I'll eventually go back to even though it's good; ridiculous amount of magazines on the go at the moment.

Robert Plant has teased fans by hinting that he might be open to a Led Zeppelin reunion in 2014.

And he says the band were over several years before the death of John Bonham brought their career to an end in 1980.

Followers believed more tours and even new music might be on the cards when Led Zep played a one-off show featuring Jason Bonham in 2007, released last year as Celebration Day. But the singer refused to take part, leaving Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones to return to their own musical careers.

However, Plant insists he’s not entirely responsible for the band’s lack of activity. He tells Australia’s 60 Minutes: “The two other guys are Capricorns. They don’t say a word. They’re quite contained in their own worlds and they leave it to me… I’m not the bad guy.

“You need to see the Capricorns – I’ve got nothing to do in 2014.”

He lost five-year-old son Karac in 1977 while Led Zep were on tour and the tragedy led him to plan a career beyond the band until Bonham coerced him into coming back. “I was very sceptical about thinking about whether I had the right to be a parent and go back into that world,” says the singer. “When I lost our boy I applied to see if I could get a role as a teacher. I wanted to be around, a way to enjoy children at the peak of the time before they’re spoilt by the ways of our world.

“I always thought, ‘There’s another thing I can do.’ I was detached. I’d left it. But it’s a terrible drug being a good singer.

“John Bonham came round in a six-door limousine that he could barely get down the country lane. He had a chauffeur’s hat. He’d sit in the front and I’d be three doors back. He’d talk to me through the intercom – and we were only going to the pub. He’d say, ‘Come on, Percy, you know you can do it, you know you’ll have a great time,’ And so, back I went.”

But even in 1977 Plant believed Led Zep had had their day. “We explored lot of music in those days,” he reflects. “But by the time Bonzo drew me back in, it was over anyway. We’d done what we had to do. The world had changed. Other people had arrived and it was the beginning of a whole new movement. It was like we’d lost the keys to the kingdom.”

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