in wrestling or in love

“One evening the band decided to dress up in drag and take some snapshots for their next album cover. Lori [Maddox], Chrissie Wood, and Miss Lucy from the GTOs plastered makeup all over Robert, Bonzo, and John, while Jimmy was given a striking bouffant coiffure. George Harrison was waiting in a suite downstairs to go to dinner with Led Zeppelin, and so the boys decided to give George a surprise. "But what they didn't know," Lori remembers, "was that Stevie Wonder had come along with George Harrison and was down there too. All the guys came traipsing into the suite in makeup and dresses and there's Stevie Wonder sitting there! Can you imagine? Can you just imagine? There's Led Zeppelin all in drag and Stevie Wonder thinks the guys are doing it as a joke on him because he was blind. They almost died from embarrassment."

— Hammer Of The Gods by Stephen Davis

Photographs:

1. Robert Plant and Richard Cole (The Richard Cole Collection)

2. Robert Plant and Roy Harper.

2. i never noticed where robert’s hand was in that first photo. is he or is he not groping cole (that’s not a question, of course he is)

1954-2026