Robert Plant

2022 - 6 - 29

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Would 'Game of Thrones' Have Been Better If Robert Plant Took the ... (The Vintage News)

You'd think that with all the medieval history and folklore embedded in Led Zeppelin lyrics, Robert Plant would agree to a cameo, right? Wrong.

So they really didn’t know what they’d invited onto their little island.” He continued, “The Viking thing, the whole idea of playing in Iceland and experiencing the landscape and the people. In an interview with George Stroumboupoulos, Plant revealed that he was offered a cameo in Game of Thrones. He admitted that he had never seen the show before, so he must not have been very excited about the part. When Lord of the Rings was first published in 1954, there was a whole generation of up-and-coming hippies reading the fantasy story with open arms.

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Robert Plant Wraps Up Digging Deep Series (antiMUSIC.com)

Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant is wrapping up his popular Digging Deep podcast series with a look back at his 2020 duet.

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Watch Robert Plant & Alison Krauss' Spellbinding Performance of ... (Rock Cellar Magazine)

Robert Plant, Alison Krauss and their band turned in a mesmerizing performance of "When the Levee Breaks" at Glastonbury this past weekend.

June 27, 2022 Like its predecessor, Raise The Roof was produced by T Bone Burnett, who worked with Plant and Krauss to expand their collaboration in thrilling new directions, accompanied by drummer Jay Bellerose, guitarists Marc Ribot, David Hidalgo, Bill Frisell, and Buddy Miller, bassists Dennis Crouch and Viktor Krauss, along with pedal steel guitarist Russ Pahl among others. That’s also the focus of Raise the Roof:

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The classic Led Zeppelin song that Robert Plant dismissed as ... (Far Out Magazine)

Pete Townshend may have bashed them but Led Zeppelin defined an era of rock 'n' roll. However, there is one classic track even Robert Plant calls "pompous".

“It was kind of a mixture of sad outtakes of doo-wop and a very droll DJ, who sounded like somebody from Marin County in 1967. Nevertheless, that’s not quite rock ‘n’ roll, thus he added: “But my contribution was to write lyrics and to sing a song about fate and something very British, almost abstract, but coming out of the mind of a 23-year-old guy. It even speeds up in a similar way to some pieces of more highbrow music.” Pete Townshend of The Who once angrily slandered: “It doesn’t sound like The Who from those early heavy metal years. As scathing as that may seem, it would seem that on one particular track, Plant finds himself somewhat peculiarly in agreement. Critics of Led Zeppelin throw up hatchets like ‘overblown’, ‘inflated’ and ‘the musical equivalent of Warhammer’. Truth be told, whether you love them or loathe them, there are certainly some elements of those critiques in the welter of their sound.

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