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"Robert Plant In His Own Words" (Hit Parader, March 1983)
In the late ‘60s, Led Zeppelin’s takeoff caused quite a commotion. This was hard-driving rock and roll like no one had ever heard before. Robert Plant’s trademark vocals served as a blueprint for many, although few could even hope to come close to achieving that dynamic range. Whole Lotta Love blasting through the stereo speakers moved delighted music fans into a frenzy.
Before long, a tradition began: the heavy metal seeds had been Planted, sprouted and were spreading like wildfire. There was no turning back.
For ten years Led Zeppelin’s albums and tours captivated the rock world. Then, suddenly, drummer John Bonham’s death ended a decade of thrills. The tremendous success of Robert Plant’s solo LP, Pictures At Eleven, proves, however, that the legend of Led Zeppelin will never die. Further proof is the recent release of Coda, a collection of never-before-released Led Zeppelin cuts.
“At 13 and a half I liked girls all of a sudden, and it came down to attracting them the best way I could. So I grew my hair. It flopped down over my ears and was immediately chopped off by demand. I forgot about lessons for the next few years and kept joining pop groups.
“I was supposed to start training as a chartered accountant. Although I was young, really, I suddenly decided where I was going. I packed up the accountancy training after only a couple of weeks and I went back to college to get some more ‘O’ levels. It was getting to the stage where I only dared to go home at night because my hair was so long. So at 16 I left home and started my real education musically.”
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“I’d been singing with a lot of groups and … it really just went in circles until I formed the first Band of Joy. The manager told me I couldn’t sing and sacked me from the group. I asked him to give me another chance but he wouldn’t.
“The new band (Band of Joy, Mk. II) decided to have painted faces on stage. It went all right for awhile, but we were frightening our audiences to death. This big fat bass player would come running on and dive straight off the stage. I was howling with laughter at the sight of him in kaftan and bell bottoms, billowing in the audience. It was absurd.”
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“The Yardbirds needed a drummer who was a good timekeeper and who really laid it down, and the only one I knew was the one I’d been playing with for years - Bonzo Bonham. I got so enthusiastic that I hitched back to Oxford and chased after John, got him to one side at a gig and said, ‘Look, mate, you’ve got to join the Yardbirds.’
“But he wasn’t easily convinced. He said, ‘Well, I’m all right here, aren’t I?’ He’d never earned the sort of bread he was getting with Tim Rose before, so I had to try to persuade him. I had nothing to convince him with, really, except a name that got lost in American pop history.”
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“No matter what the critics said, the proof of the pudding was the fact that Led Zeppelin II got a lot of people off. The reviewer for Rolling Stone, for instance, was just a frustrated musician. Maybe I’m just flying my own little ego ship, but sometimes people seem to resent talent. I don’t even remember what the criticism was, but as far as I’m concerned it was a good - maybe even great - road album.”
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“I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things I’ve been through are serious. We’ve been to America so much and seen so many things that we don’t agree with, that our feelings of protest have to reflect in our music.”
“America makes you aware of the proximity of man’s fate. You see so much that is great, but so much that is terrible. The rush, the hassles, the police… People may say we make a lot of bread, but in some cities it’s so rough that people are scared to come to our concerts. Our manager once had a gun pulled on him, and we’ve been threatened with arrest if we returned to the stage for an encore. The police even accused us of being drug addicts. That’s all part of where That’s the Way came from.”
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“Let me tell you a little story about the song Ten Years Gone. I was working my ass off before joining Zeppelin. A lady I really dearly loved said, ‘It’s me or your fans.’ Not that I had any fans, but I said, ‘I can’t stop. I’ve got to keep going.’ She’s quite content these days, I imagine. She’s got a washing machine that works by itself and a little sports car. We wouldn’t have anything to say anymore. I could probably relate to her, but she couldn’t relate to me. I’d be smiling too much. Ten years gone, I’m afraid.”
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“Presence was our stand against everything. Our stand against the elements, against chance. We were literally fighting against existence itself. We’d left home for 12 months and it seemed that everything was about to crumble.”
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“Abba were very kind and said, ‘why don’t you have a look at the studios (Polar Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, where Zep recorded In Through The Out Door)?’ Sweden is a weird place to go. If you’ve got any choice at all, you might choose other alternatives. But to trek to Sweden in the middle of the winter, a studio has to be good - and it was sensational.
“Normally, a regimental attitude has to be taken in the studio, but with Abba’s it was very easy-going and the whole series of rooms beckoned for you to play good stuff and dictated the mood - along with the Swedish beer. They’ve got special homes for people who drink it out there because they go loony after about three weeks.”
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“Without the audience throwing back vibrations, I just could not do it, could not extend myself. When I’m looking into those thousands of faces, it just seems to pour out of me. By allowing your mind to be free and open, you get a new dimension going and the audience comes back at us. I suspect you could put a lot of the group’s success down to that. We’ve never had the attitude of going on stage, playing like clockwork for the allotted time and then pissing off. That’s not our trip at all.”
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“Most of the girls who come backstage simply want to say, ‘Thank you for giving a good concert.’ Outsiders who think that all sorts of stuff is going on just don’t know us. I’ll admit the first year or two that I became a star I was very young and on a trip. But we’ve gotten over that now, and we’re mostly concerned with out music.”
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“It’s usually one of our roadies that rides along with us and then gets us a bad reputation with his shenanigans. You get bored. Anything that’s ever happened has been in the spirit of fun. We never hurt anybody. Well, no one who didn’t dig it.”
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“We decided to hire our first publicity firm when we toured America in the summer of ’72. That was the same summer that the Stones toured, and we knew full well that we were doing more business than them. We were getting better gates in comparison to a lot of people who were constantly glorified in the press. So without getting egocentric, we thought it was time people heard something about us other than that we were eating women and throwing the bones out of the window. The whole lunacy thing was all people knew about us, and it was all word-of-mouth. All those times of lunacy were OK, but we aren’t and never were monsters. Just good-time boys, loved by their fans and hated by their critics.”
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“Marriage for me was the make-or-break of being a stable person or just going on with this out-and-out looning. In the pop world where everything gets blown up and unreal, you never know what’s going to happen. You are going to have children here, there and everywhere if you lead that sort of life - and you’ve got to expect the consequences. Being married is part of the peace of mind and stability thing I hope I’ve found.”
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“It seems funny that once I was an ungratified singer and now they’re calling me a sex symbol. I must admit that I don’t really know how people think about sex symbols. Maybe if the audience can see a cock through a pair of trousers, then that must make you a sex symbol.
“Since I’m the only one who doesn’t have a guitar or drums in front of mine, I suppose I started out with a bit more chance than anyone else in the band. You can’t take it seriously simply because you read all these things about it in the papers. You just get into your music, and the sexual thing isn’t really apparent to you. It’s simply not what we’re there for.”
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“I’ve been told I’m a ‘sexual beacon.’”
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Excerpted from Led Zeppelin (Delilah Books)
Part Four Of An Exclusive Four-Part Led Zeppelin Series.
Thank you for this question, I greatly enjoyed answering it. Though it may be quite obvious, I'd say my black astrology suit. I worked with a woman named Coco from Los Angeles to create it, incorporating astrology, and symbols. It is most likely my favorite because of how special it is to me. Below are some of my other favorites.
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