“We spent quite a lot of time talking about rockabilly,” he says of his time with the pair of genre aficionados. Just over a year ago for the 30th anniversary of the BBC’s Later With Jools Holland, Plant delivered a stunning version of ‘Rock And Roll’, also from Led Zeppelin IV, and was joined by Richard Hawley and Imelda May. Led Zeppelin in 1973: Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones. The pair have formed a successful partnership that included the release of two successful albums Raising Sand (2007) and Raise The Roof (2021), and a tour has taken in several Irish venues, including the Everyman in Cork. Staying with Led Zeppelin IV, he also performed ‘The Battle of Evermore’ earlier this year with Alison Krauss. I didn’t start doing this and getting addicted to this game sixty years ago, making my first record on my own when I was seventeen to end up wandering around giving it large for all the stuff that everybody knows.” "If we were to go for a creative lean in a new world it might have been a different thing. Putting a full-stop on Led Zeppelin after the 02 performance was more about gleaning from a different kind of creative experience despite many thinking the band were match-fit for a tour. While sections of the press portray Plant as having a “beef” with the song, that’s far from the truth. Andy has had this incredible force of nature coming out of nowhere because he was done, he was finished it was the end of his time but he was invited to take part in this trial and he’s powerful now, you can’t get in the way of that.” “I played it last week with Andy,” he explains. Plant performed the track at a benefit concert with Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor just days before our meeting. I refer to his return to performing ‘Stairway To Heaven’ 16 years after Led Zeppelin’s one-off reunion back in December 2007 at London’s O2. He looks refreshingly authentic and is free from affectations while carrying his rock-star charisma with a Gandalf-like wisdom. The top part of his hair is tied back while the golden curls flecked with grey still fall down his back. “I’ve done some interviews in those cupboards, someone comes in looking for the cheese plates for a visiting luminary and I’m in there on the phone to NPR radio or something,” he says.Īt 75 Robert Plant remains an arresting presence, in an elegant black three-quarter-length jacket, grey checked trousers and suede boots. When Plant arrives it turns out to be not that far from the truth. The club’s press officer quips that we might have to chat in the broom cupboard. I arrive at the Molineux Stadium, home of Wolverhampton Wanderers to meet “the golden god” as he once jokingly referred to himself to amplify the “nonsense” around Led Zeppelin.
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