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Vote: | How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated? |
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Vote: | I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things I've been through are serious. |
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Vote: | I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl. |
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Vote: | I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things. |
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Vote: | I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on! |
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Vote: | I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful. |
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Vote: | It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness. |
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Vote: | People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions. |
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Vote: | We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter? |
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Vote: | You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it. |
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Vote: | You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you. |
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Robert Anthony Plant (born 20 August 1948, West Bromwich, West Midlands, England) is a rock singer most famous for being the lead singer of one of the most influential rock bands of all time — Led Zeppelin. He is known for his powerful style with a wide vocal range that embodied folk/blues passion at its finest.
Plant started his career singing in a variety of bands including Band of Joy. His early efforts met with no commercial success, but word quickly spread about the young guy with the powerful voice. Guitarist Jimmy Page was in search of a lead singer for his new band and met Plant after talking with a drummer who referred him to a show where Plant was singing. Plant and Page immediately hit it off with a shared musical passion and after Plant joined the band, they began their powerful writing collaboration with reworks of earlier blues songs.
A well-read individual, Plant was influenced by J.R.R. Tolkien, which inspired some lyrics on early Zeppelin albums. The passion for diverse musical experiences drove Plant and Page to explore the African continent, specifically Morocco which they both revisited during their reunion album No Quarter in 1994. From blues, to folk, to African tribal music, Plant enjoyed diverse influences.
The band's greatest success came with "Stairway to Heaven", an epic fantasy piece that draws influence from folk, blues, Celtic traditional music and hard rock among other genres. While never released as a single, the song has topped charts as the greatest song of all time on various polls around the world. Even though most of the lyrics of the song were written on the spot and have been spread through bootlegs, various groups have claimed that the song contained satanic messages that can be heard when it is played backwards.
Plant enjoyed great success with the band throughout the 1970s, and at one point during the height of his hubris said to a reporter "I'm a golden haired God". This hubris was cut short when Plant and wife Maureen were seriously injured in a car crash in Rhodes, Greece on August 4, 1975. This halted production of Led Zeppelin's album Presence for a few months while he recovered. Things also took a turn for the worse in 1977, when his oldest son Karac died of a stomach infection. Karac's death later inspired him to write the Led Zeppelin song "All My Love" in tribute. These tragic incidents seemed to foster break-up rumors and rumors that the band was involved with black magic.
Following the band's breakup in 1980, Plant pursued a successful solo career distancing himself from past pain by charting a new course with a variety of new band members. Plant would later form a short-lived all-star group, The Honeydrippers, who had a Top Ten hit with a remake of "Sea Of Love".
Many calls from fans and by band members have led to a few brief Zeppelin reunions, including the historic Live Aid and Atlantic Records Anniversary concerts.
In 2005, Plant formed a new back-up group, Strange Sensation, for a new album,
Mighty Rearranger. It contains new original songs recorded in the spirit of his former band, Led Zeppelin.
Today, in addition to his own post-Zeppelin work, Plant continues his occasional collaborations with his former bandmate Jimmy Page.
Solo Discography * Pictures at Eleven (1982)
* The Principle of Moments (1983)
* The Honeydrippers: Volume One (1984), with Jimmy Page
* Shaken 'n' Stirred (1985)
* Now and Zen (1988)
* Manic Nirvana (1990)
* Fate of Nations (1993)
* The Wayne's World 2 Soundtrack (1993), only one song
* No Quarter (1994), with Jimmy Page
* Walking Into Clarksdale (1998), with Jimmy Page
* Dreamland (2002)
* Sixty Six to Timbuktu (2003) Best Of
* Mighty Rearranger (2005), with Strange Sensation
...(more on Wikipedia)
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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Robert Plant".
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