Robert Plant: A Life (46 page)

Page–Plant recording with the Gnaoua master musicians in Marrakech, August 1994.

(© Andy Earl)

Taking it easy during a cover shoot for
Rolling Stone
magazine, 1988.

(© David Montgomery/Getty Images)

The Unledded touring party on the road in America, 1995.

(© Nigel Eaton)

Enjoying some “R&R” with hurdy-gurdy player Nigel Eaton in Arizona on the Unledded tour, May 1995.

(© Nigel Eaton)

Plant with Najma Akthar, far right, at a Black Country wedding. “He’s very patriotic about his little village,” she said.

(© Bev Pegg)

Plant entertaining the patrons of his local tennis club with old friend Bev Pegg, to Plant’s immediate left, and his band.

(© Bev Pegg)

(© Ross Halfin)

Zeppelin rehearsing for and performing at their reunion concert at London’s O2 Arena, December 2007. “Robert really, really didn’t want to do that.”

At his 60th birthday party with Black Country comic Tommy Mundon, August 2008.

(© Bev Pegg)

“A beautiful woman with a voice like an angel.” Plant and Alison Krauss raise sand, 2008.

(© Camera Press/Perou)

Plant on the pitch at Molineux, home of Wolverhampton Wanderers, the football team he has supported for fifty-five years.

(© Sam Bagnall/AMA Photo Agency/Wolves FC)

With the “delicate and charming” Patty Griffin, his collaborator and partner.

(© Getty Images)

Plant, Page and Jones, together again in New York, October 2012 . . .

(© Ross Halfin)