Robert Plant: A Life (43 page)

Small Faces, the 43, 49, 69, 77, 84

Smashing Pumpkins 252

Smith, Dave 325

Smithsonian Folkways 287

“Smokestack Lightning” 44

Snow, Mat 141, 223, 257, 329

Snowdonia National Park 15, 109, 134

Cadair Idris 15, 108

Dolgoch 134, 261

Pennal 109, 289

Soft Cell 205

Soft Machine 135

Soho, London 87, 269, 284

Solters, Roskin & Sabinson (agency) 137

“Somebody to Love” 66

“Something” 275

“Song Remains the Same, The” 136

Song Remains the Same
,
The
144, 145, 172

Sound Emporium Studios, Nashville 292–3

Soundgarden 247

Sounds of Blue 39, 45

South America 254, 264, 325

“South Bound Suarez” 194

Speakeasy Club, London 74, 75, 121

Spector, Phil 222

Spencer Davis Group 36–7, 40, 44

Spin
(magazine) 252

Spooky Tooth 91, 114, 276

Springsteen, Bruce 152

Spungen, Nancy 186

Squire, Chris 160, 201

Squire, John 257

“Stairway to Heaven” 116, 120, 121–2, 123, 133, 153, 227, 240, 250, 262, 304, 323

Stanley, Ralph 283, 291

Stanway, Mark 296, 297

Staples Center, LA 314

Staples, Mavis 319

Stargroves, Hampshire 128

Starr, Ringo 45

Stax 40, 49

“Steal Away” 76

Steiner, Rudolf 185

Stewart, Ian 119

Stewart, Rod 36, 75–6, 86, 97, 253, 320

Sticky Fingers
117

Stiff, Denise 288

Stills, Stephen 67, 274

Sting 269

Stockholm 189–91

Stone, Sly 118

Stone Roses 257

Stormcock
118

Stourbridge

College 31, 71

Conservative Club 38

music scene 31

Town Hall 43, 45, 51, 238, 276, 313

Stourbridge Edwardian
(newspaper) 46

Strange Sensation 280, 282, 285–6, 289, 291, 298, 325

Strider (Plant’s collie dog) 111

Suez Crisis 13

“Sugar Babe” 28

Sullivan, Ed 16

Summer of Love 55

Summer Skin
327

Sun Records 16

Sunday Night at the London Palladium
18

Sunset Strip, LA 85, 95, 105, 143, 152, 157, 168

“Sunshine Superman” 87

Surrealistic Pillow
66

Swan Song 146–9, 154, 167, 171, 195

Sweet Dreams
(
Are Made of This
) 233

Swiss Café, Stourbridge 31

Sykes, Roosevelt 203

Symphony Hall, Cleveland 290–1

Taj Mahal Hotel, Bombay 125

Talking Heads 232

“Tall Cool One” 236, 282

Tamasheq (language) 330

Tamla Motown 23, 26, 40, 43, 49, 52, 147

Tampa Stadium 138, 177

“Tangerine” 111, 318

Tapestry
128

Tate, Sharon 99

Taylor, Elizabeth 152

“Tea for One” 169–70

Tea Party (club), Boston 97, 130

Tears for Fears 247

Teddy Boys 21

“Ten Years Gone” 151

Tennessee Teens, the 52

Terry Webb and the Spiders 50

“Thank You” 100, 104

Thank Your Luck Stars
(TV show) 28

Thatcher, Margaret 191

“That’s All Right” 16

“That’s the Way” 109

There’s a Riot Goin’ On
118

13th Floor Elevators 317

Thompson, Dorette 70

Thompson, Geoff 52

Thompson, Pete 248

Thompson, Porl 259, 280

Thompson, Richard 249

Thompson, Tony 226, 232

Three Tuns Inn, Bishop’s Castle 275

Tight But Loose
(fanzine) 159, 171, 204

“Tin Pan Alley” 290

Tinariwen 286, 312

Titanic
, RMS 11

Today Tonight
(TV show) 322

Tolinski, Brad 89, 121, 138

Tolley, Gary 21, 26, 30, 40, 46

Tolley, Mrs. 22

Tony Billingham Band, the 65

Top of the Pops
(BBC show) 35

Tosh, Peter 146

Tower House, the, Holland Park 147

Townshend, Pete 57, 303

“Train Kept A-Rollin’ ” 88

“Trampled Underfoot” 151, 243, 304

Trapeze 99

“Travelling Riverside Blues” 40

Travolta, John 173

Trinity Road, West Bromwich 59, 71

Truth
86

Turd Burglars, the 188–9

200 Motels
(film) 45

Tyler, Steven 306

Ulster Hall, Belfast 124

Uncut
(magazine) 191

Union Station 288, 315

United States
see individual cities

Unplugged
(Eric Clapton) 290

“Upon a Golden Horse” 268

U2 153, 225

Valle Crucis Abbey, Wales 108

Van Zandt, Townes 293, 294

Vanilla Fudge 94, 99

Vaughan, Frankie 69

VH1 (music channel) 287–8, 290, 314, 324

Vicious, Sid 186, 193

Vietnam 28

Vincent, Gene 16–17, 21, 51, 77, 91, 236, 276

Violent Blue 237

Volume One
222–3

Waits, Tom 292, 293

Wales

North 108, 121, 126

South 207, 220

see also
Snowdonia

Walker, Scott 51

Walker Brothers, the 51, 91, 276

Walking into Clarksdale
3, 268, 269, 301

Wall, Mick 128, 137, 184

Walsall 12, 52, 57, 76

Midlands College of Education 77–8

“Wanton Song, The” 151, 236

Water Is Life
286

Watergate 129

Watford Gap 99

Watts, Charlie 75

Watts Riots, LA (1965) 43

Way of Life, the 51, 99

Wayne, Carl 55

Webb, Stan 39, 134

Webb, Terry and the Spiders 50

Wednesbury Court 70

Weintraub, Jerry 146

Welch, Gillian 283–4, 317

Welwyn Garden City 99

Wembley Arena, London 263, 307

Wembley Stadium, London 59, 225, 300

“We’re Gonna Groove” 104

West Bromwich 4, 9, 12, 14, 58–9, 69, 71, 93, 98, 103

West Bromwich Albion

West Coast music 43, 55, 66–7, 96, 108, 289

West Country 111, 202, 232, 289

West End, London 84

West Hill (dormitory), Stourbridge 71

West Midlands College of Education, Walsall 77

Western Sahara, 160

Wetton, Paul 274

Wexler, Jerry 92

“What Is and What Should Never Be” 100, 270

What’s Going On
118

Wheels of Fire
86

“When the Levee Breaks” 119, 301

Whiskey a Go Go, LA 94

White, Alan 201

White Album
149

“White Rabbit” 66

“White Summer/Black Mountainside” 104

Who, the 43, 44, 57, 77, 84, 90, 117, 149–50, 186, 225, 234, 303

“Whole Lotta Love” 100, 105, 114, 133, 226, 304

Who’s Next
117

“Wild Thing” 59

Williams, Carole 60–1

Williams, Mark 79, 98

Williams, Richard 67, 72

Williams, Roy 112, 203, 276, 278–9, 286–7, 290, 296, 297, 299, 306, 308

Williamson, Robin 108

Williamson, Sonny Boy 32, 36, 37, 67, 103

Wilson, Brian 54

Wilson, Harold 58

Wilson, Maureen 58

Wilson, Nancy 323

Wilson, Shirley 59, 70, 100–1, 159, 161, 217–18, 244

Wimpey (construction company) 69

Windsor 196–7

Winehouse, Amy 295

Winwood, Stevie 29–30, 36–7, 39, 44, 55, 69

Wolverhampton Civic Hall 245

Wolverhampton Wanderers 4, 10, 265, 311

Wonder, Stevie 49, 151

Wood, Chris 39

Wood, Ronnie 227

Wood, Roy 55

Woodroffe, Jezz 205, 208, 210, 218

Woodstock Festival 54, 99–100

Woolpack (pub), Wolverhampton 53, 76

World Cup 1966 58, 59

Wrecking Ball
278, 293

Wright, Billy 10

Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton 279

Wyman, Bill 10

Wyre Forest 14

XYZ 201

“Yallah” 59

Yardbirds, the 36, 37, 77, 78–9, 83, 84–5, 87–8, 91, 93

Yeats, David 31, 39, 45–6

Yes 160, 201, 240

Yew Tree Farm, Stourbridge 186

“You Better Run” 61, 64

“You Really Got Me” 84

“You Shook Me” 90

Young, Neil 67, 107, 120, 228, 243, 247, 253, 256, 278, 315

Zappa, Frank 45

PHOTOGRAPHIC INSERTS

The school newspaper of the King Edward VI Grammar School for Boys announces Plant as a form monitor. “He always seemed to be at the centre of whatever was going on.”

(© King Edward VI Grammar School for Boys)

Plant, circled, in his 1963 school photo. Gary Tolley, guitarist in his first band, is to his immediate right.

(© Colin Roberts)

Plant’s first stomping ground, Stourbridge High Street, circa 1963.

(© Bev Pegg)

The school newspaper records Plant’s stint on the committee of the Jazz Society.

(© King Edward VI Grammar School for Boys)