The prestigious 35th-annual Kennedy Center Honors aired Dec. 26 on national television, highlighting the awesomeness of rock gods Led Zeppelin. The program, which was taped Dec. 2, also honored bluesman Buddy Guy and featured performances from2 ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington that honored Dustin Hoffman, Buddy Guy, David Letterman, Natalia Makarova and Led Zeppelin. Caroline Kennedy starts the evening off by quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson's invitation to “congratulate yourselfHeart showed a whole lotta love for Led Zeppelin at the Kennedy Center Honors, which aired Dec. 26, with a spot-on performance of (what else?) "Stairway to Heaven."The surviving members of Led Zeppelin spent a whole lotta quality time together in 2012, although they still left fans wanting more. Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones didn't get together to perform or record, but rather to celebrate the lastRobert Plant in particular appeared quite moved during the tribute to Led Zeppelin, kicked off comically by Jack Black but brought home musically with heart, brawn, and a fitting touch of bombast by Lenny Kravitz, Kid Rock, Foo Fighters, Ann and Nancy
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