The performance hall will give all three surviving Led Zeppelin members - John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant - individual awards.

BBC: Hoffman and Led Zep to be honoured by Kennedy Center

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin helped influence Buckley's music they've called Grace one of the best albums of the past 20 years.

NPR: Ten Years Gone, Jeff Buckley's Voice Lingers

So when Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham burst onto the musical scene in the late 1960s, the world never saw it coming.

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