The “Golden God” is grounded: Robert Plant is 70

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40 years ago, would have been Robert Plant almost of rock star teachers the jump. There’s a tragic story. But then he stayed, however, in the case of the music. Only to Led Zeppelin, he just has no desire anymore.

What is a rock singer with 70? He goes on Tour, of course. The latest Album, “Carry the Fire”, with critics and Fans very well, and so Robert, the concert is Planning to list in the United States has added a few more shows. Thereafter, Cardiff, London and Dublin in October off. Shorter does not come “out of the question,” said the singer to the “mirror” in 2017. “I’m singing better than ever, my voice has matured, my music also. I still have so many Songs in me.”

You can already say so, if you are revolutionizing a half-century earlier, as the lead singer and songwriter of one of the greatest Bands of all time, the world of music. Songs like “Whole Lotta Love”, “Stairway to Heaven” and “Kashmir” blew up the conventions and revolutionized the rock world. Guitarist Jimmy Page, Bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, drummer John Bonham – they all were considered to be seminal to their instruments. And forward Plans, with his rough, bluesy voice, and the curly mane. He was “The Golden God”, the larger-than-life front man. Generations of Bands, including Guns N’ Roses, Nirvana and Metallica took and take the Plant and his Band to the model. Led Zeppelin filled the largest halls, the tours sold out, the albums countless times with platinum.

Led Zeppelin – four young men: John Bonham, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones (from left)

Blows of fate

But Led Zeppelin no longer exists since 1980. At the time, drummer John Bonham died from the effects of his alcohol consumption, what the members made it for the rest of the band is impossible to move on, together, as they announced in a statement. Three years earlier Robert Plant seriously considering the Rockstar life and instead become a teacher at a Waldorf school had to: The death of his five-year-old son Zarac, who died in 1977 of a viral infection while Led Zeppelin toured the United States, had shaken him.

“When I lost my boy, not more I wanted to hop in really through the area. ‘Hey hey Mama, say the way you move’ didn’t have much significance for me,” he looked back once in the music magazine “Q”. But he could be persuaded, after a break with the Band to continue. Until the death of Bonhams, was not only within the Band Plants best friend.

Blues and Bluegrass

Since then, the singer answered questions following a Reunion tour consistently with no. A Meeting will “be no more than a chip shop in Camden,” he said recently. And, like his colleagues Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones – his own thing.

Musically, Post-Zeppelin Oeuvre, which now includes 16 albums to be found in Plants, and belong to the two plates with Jimmy Page, you still need reminiscences of the old times. The Blues, the Folk, the Rock, all of this remains part of his personality and his Songs. Particularly successful was the collaboration with the Bluegrass singer Alison Krauss was: The joint Album “Raising Sand” in 2009 was awarded five Grammys. Also, there were always meetings with the Ex-colleagues. Most of all, this is a concert in 2007, to Ertegun in honor of the late founder of Atlantic Records and co-discoverer of the Band, Ahmet.

The “finale Show”

20 million people wanted to have a Ticket for the Gig in London’s O2 Arena, with 20,000 of them a Ticket out of a hat got finally. A historic evening. The Sound, the atmosphere. All three musicians are still at the height of their skills, supported by John Bonhams son Jason on drums. A subsequent tour of the obvious, and certainly very lucrative. Guitarist Page also stated for the umpteenth Time, to be ready for that. But Robert did not want to Plant. “We have to play, no tour, only one night, this one, last, final Show to salute the end of a world that died with Ahmet Ertegun,” he had made clear previously and remained.

The blows of fate seem to have Plans against the temptations of the Star is weird, and immune. Drugs have since been taboo, the singer has returned to its roots, close to the working town of Birmingham. “I live today with my family again in the same environment in which I grew up, in the Black Country. In this area you will feel safe, not as a Star, and I’m grateful for that,” he told the “mirror” in 2017. That sounds pretty grounded.

So now the tour is mainly by smaller halls, together with his current Band “The Sensational Space Shifters”. “My time must be filled with joy and efforts, Humor, strength, and absolute satisfaction. This is not with Led Zeppelin. That is what I am doing now with this Band, with this Tour,” said Robert Plant recently the magazine “Esquire”. Tickets for this Tour, there are still. From 33 Dollars. A real bargain for a “Golden God”.