Led Zeppelin interview tonight on Letterman show. Two Beatles demos to go up for auction. Paul Stanley working on autobiography. Congress considering doing away with the one dollar bill. Study links cell phone addiction to impulsivity. Five delicious ways to soothe your cold. Four ways nature makes you crazy.

LED ZEPPELIN

The surviving members of Led Zeppelin will appear tonight (December 3rd) on CBS' The Late Show With David Letterman. Ultimate Classic Rock reported that the three -- Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones -- who, along with Letterman, were awarded the Kennedy Center Honor on Saturday night (December 1st) in Washington, D.C. -- will chat with Letterman -- but not perform. The Kennedy Center Honors will air on CBS on December 26th. Check your local listings for stations and times.

The band-members are promoting their new live collection, Celebration Day, which features Zeppelin's entire 2007 London reunion concert.

Robert Plant has been the lone holdout for another Led Zeppelin reunion. Despite promoters essentially offering the band a blank check for a series of concerts, Plant remains committed to his new musical direction in the "Americana" field: "I hate to say it, but it felt young. It felt like I didn't know what was going to happen next, and it didn't really matter -- and that was the great thing. I know the songs that I like and the songs that I always attach myself to have been of a certain genre, if they're not self-penned. And I was in very good company with people who had a very familiar lean in the same direction."

The tracklisting to Celebration Day is: "Good Times, Bad Times," "Ramble On," "Black Dog," "In My Time Of Dying," "For Your Life," "Trampled Underfoot," "Nobody's Fault But Mine," "No Quarter," "Since I've Been Lovin' You," "Dazed And Confused," "Stairway To Heaven," "The Song Remains The Same," "Misty Mountain Hop," "Kashmir," "Whole Lotta Love" and "Rock And Roll." 

Jimmy Pageis currently remastering the entire Led Zeppelin catalogue. The reissues will be similar to Pink Floyd's recent deluxe editions with extensive new packaging and previously unreleased alternate takes of the band's classic material. There's been no release date set for the revamped catalogue hitting the streets.

THE BEATLES

Two Beatles demos will be going under the hammer on December 12th through Entertainment Memorabilia, according to Beatles Examiner. The songs are acetates of John Lennon's 1963 demo for "What Goes On" -- which would eventually be finished by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr for the band's 1965 Rubber Soul album. Initially though, the band was set to record it for their March 5th, 1963 session, which spawned "From Me To You," its B-side, "Thank You Girl" and the long-unreleased original version of "The One After 909," but due to a tight schedule, never committed it to tape.

Also being sold is an early version of George Harrison's Indian-tinged Revolver favorite, "Love You To." The acetate up for sale dates from May 2nd, 1966 and appears under its original title, "Granny Smith."

October 5th marked the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' debut single, "Love Me Do." Paul McCartney admits, that for him, the ascent to fame was the most fun time to be a Beatle: "The earliest days of the Beatles were very exciting. On the one hand, you're just in the little town you'd grown up in -- with your friends and your relatives that you know. And you're doing work in that town, like we were -- we were playing lunchtime sessions at the Cavern. And then suddenly for us it was like, you're starting to play theaters and ballrooms and they're abroad, and you're branching out a lot, you're doing a lot of traveling. I mean, those were very tiring days -- crazy days, really, but there was a lot of fun in those days."

PAUL STANLEY

During a recent radio interview, Paul Stanley revealed that he will at last write his autobiography. Blabbermouth.net reported Stanley as saying, "This will come back to haunt me, because, of course, mine is in the works. Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself. I mean, George Orwell said that the autobiography is the most outrageous form of fiction. How objective can you be when you are writing about yourself?"

He went on to explain, "I've seen people around me write books and somehow they're always in the center of everything that happened, they were the one who made it happen. There's been a lot of those books that didn't really interest me much. I thought Duff's (McKagan) book was great."

Stanley touched upon the fact that he's the last of the original Kiss lineup to put their version of the band's history in black and white: "I think it's terrific. Especially, it's funny, at this point, with the three other guys from the original lineup having written books. It's kind of like, 'OK, have you all said your piece? OK? Now let me tell you what happened.'"

Kiss fans had long given up on Stanley penning his memoirs after he told Australia's TheAge.com.au in 2007: "Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me. . . it takes you away from real life. It's a waste and I don't find a need to sing my own praises."

Paul Stanley can now add author to his long list of accomplishments. Over the years, his paintings have gone on a traveling exhibition and in 2007, his four-by-five-foot acrylic paintings earned the "starchild" a cool $2 million. Stanley said that success apart from rock actually caught him off guard: "My art has become successful beyond anything I ever could've contemplated, 'cause I never started painting with the idea of anybody seeing it. It was purely for myself and it was something to let off steam outside of music. But it's turned into something very surprising to a lot of people -- me being one of them! And when your sales are in the millions, that's kind of staggering. And I'm of a believer that if you do something that connects in a pure way with your self, it will find its own audience."

CONGRESS CONSIDERING DOING AWAY WITH THE ONE-DOLLAR BILL

Congressional auditors say that doing away with dollar bills entirely and replacing them with dollar coins would save taxpayers about 4.4-billion-dollars over the next 30-years. In the past five-years, the U.S. Mint has produced 2.4-billion one-dollar-coins. Most are stored in the federal reserve, and production on them was suspended about a year ago. A Government Accountability Office representative says though the one-dollar coin is unpopular, it could stay in circulation for 30-years, while paper bill have to be replaced every four-to-five years or so. The government is already considering changing the metals used in making our existing coins to save money. (Yahoo)

STUDY LINKS CELL PHONE ADDICTION TO IMPULSIVITY

Researchers from Baylor University and Seton Hall University have found that cell phone addiction, as well as instant messaging, is driven by impulsivity and materialism. For the study, researchers analyzed questionnaire results from nearly 200 college students. The questionnaire was meant to assess the students' levels of impulsivity and materialism, as well as possible addiction to instant messaging and cell-phone use. Experts say cell phone addiction is usually characterized by feelings of withdrawl if you don't have your phone, compulsive checking of the phone, and using it to feel good. (Huffington Post)

FIVE DELICIOUS WAYS TO SOOTHE YOUR COLD (The Stir)

1) Hot and sour soup. Hot and soothing is good, but if you can add some spice to it, that's even better. (And by the way, all that salt is also helpful.) Chinese hot and sour soup clears the sinuses and gives you a little bit of a buzz so you can hang on until bedtime.

2) Pho. Along the same lines as hot and sour soup, but Vietnamese-style! This spicy, fish-sauce-spiked beef noodle soup is another dish that's easier to get via delivery.

3) Swedish bilberry and rose hip soups. Apparently they're winter staples in Sweden. The rose hip soup is especially rich in vitamin C. You can drink these hot or cold, and you can buy mixes online -- search for Ekstroms brand "blbrssoppa" and "nyponsoppa."

4) Hot toddy. Keep these ingredients handy in your kitchen in case of emergency! A hot toddy can be made with brandy or rum, but I think whiskey works best. Heat that with some fresh lemon juice, honey, and a cinnamon stick. Ahhh, so much tastier than NyQuil and just as effective!

5) Ginger tea. Like the hot toddy, this is easy to whip up at home as long as you're stocked with the right ingredients. It's great how ginger warms your throat on its way down when you're feeling scratchy. It's a lot like a hot toddy, but no alcohol.

FOUR WAYS NATURE MAKES YOU CRAZY(Men's Health)

1) The full moon might be calming. French research shows that fewer E.R. visits for anxiety disorders occur in the last lunar quarter - when only the left side of the moon is visible in the Northern Hemisphere.

2) Score big during the new moon. Need to make a quick buck? Forget a financial advisor - just invest your money toward the end of the month during the new moon! According to research in the Harvard Business Review, your annualized daily returns - how much you made each day extrapolated out to a year - are up to eight times greater when you invest on a new moon instead of a full one. Even freakier: The results have held across stock markets in all but one of the world's 25 most industrialized countries (Norway) - in some cases up to 100 years.

3)Watch your back in the summer. According to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, both a city's crime rates and ice cream consumption peak during warmer periods. But the ice cream shops aren't harboring thieves - it's the weather that's to blame. Assaults more than triple between 0-degree and 80-degree temperatures, researchers say. Summer breeds crime more so than a frigid winter: more people are outside, people often leave their homes unattended, and you're more likely to bring easily stolen items like bikes outdoors.

4) Blame stormy weather for your mood. Russian scientists report that solar storms may be behind your mood swings. The researchers looked at solar activity records dating between 1948 and 1997 and found stormy periods matched up with the number of suicides in a Northern Russian town throughout that period. And researchers in the field will tell you Russians aren't the only ones suffering: A South African study showed a 34 percent increase in the number of hospital admissions for depression in the second week after large solar storms. So if you're sick of blaming your bad mood on work, friends, or your wife's nagging, you could always side with the researchers and blame your pineal gland, which releases melatonin and acts as your body's internal clock. It's sensitive to magnetic fields and thrown off by solar storms!

Thanks for listening to The Eagle while you work. Keep it fabulous, Houston!

xoxo,

Jennifer Tyler

Fabulous Mid-Day Diva