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A Tale Of Two Tickets

The news that a Led Zeppelin fan has paid £83,000 for a pair of seats at the rock band’s reunion concert coincided with other stories saying touts were selling tickets for The Sex Pistols’ November 17 show in Manchester for as little as a penny apiece.

Kenneth Donnell, a BBC 2 listener from Glasgow, shelled out the big bucks to see the three remaining rock legends rehearse and perform at London’s O2 December 10 as part of an auction for the BBC’s Children in Need appeal.

Tickets to see Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones on stage for the first time since the band split in 1980 – apart from an ’85 reunion for Live Aid – went on sale in October at £125 each.

The show was postponed from November 26 because Page reportedly broke a finger when he slipped in his garden.

The station’s "Auction of Things That Money Can’t Buy" also attracted a generous bid from Scottish philanthropist Sir Tom Hunter who is reportedly the country’s first home-grown billionaire. He parted with £100,000 of his estimated £1.05 billion on two VIP passes to next year’s Formula One British Grand Prix.

Earlier in the week, Martin Ainscough – head of Wigan-based engineering giant Ainscough Crane Hire Ltd. – went to £250,000 to have Aled Jones and Katie Melua perform at Revolution in Manchester to raise funds for the Prince’s Trust.

That gig may well do better than the re-formed Sex Pistols, together again to celebrate 30 years since their album "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols."

According to the Daily Mirror, two tickets were auctioned on eBay for a penny each (plus £5 postage), while "numerous other pairs of tickets" were going for less than £1.

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