Robert Plant: A Life (45 page)

Plant at Headley Grange, scene of Zeppelin’s greatest recorded triumphs.

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With the late Sandy Denny, his co-vocalist on “The Battle of Evermore,” 1971.

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Zeppelin on stage at the Bath Festival, June 28, 1969.

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Zeppelin holding court on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip, the center of their empire through the 1970s. “People backed off, not wanting to be associated with this supposed enormous quantity of hedonism.”

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Plant with Zeppelin’s formidable manager Peter Grant. “Everybody was shit-scared of ‘G.’ ”

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Zeppelin’s crowning moment, on stage at London’s Earl’s Court, May 1975.

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The last U.S. Zeppelin show: Plant at the Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, July 24, 1977. Within two days he had lost his seven-year-old son Karac.

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Plant and Page en route to the stage at Knebworth, August 1979.

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The final curtain: the Tour Over Europe, June 1980. “That tour sounded more of a shambles than they like to make out.”

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Plant, the solo artist, 1982. “I’d cut my hair and hadn’t played or listened to a Zeppelin record for two years.”

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“It was like being on a Bumble Bee.” The Viscount prop plane Plant and his band toured the U.S. aboard during 1983.

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Plant with his band drummer and sounding board, Phil Collins.

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A new-look Zeppelin re-form for Live Aid, July 13, 1985. “We virtually ruined the whole thing because we sounded so awful,” Plant said later.

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