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Robert Plant - Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page & The Solo Years
Consider these passages... Daniels goes through a sentence-long analysis of the tracks on Zeppelin's albums. For the first album, there is this gem: "Black Mountain Side is an accurate demonstration of Page's musical expertise rather than Plant's talent yet Plant is still in fine vocal shape." Umm... isn't the song an instrumental? Doesn't this sentence imply that Plant is singing this track? The roots of How Many More Times? Well, Daniels says that the lyrics contain references to "Howlin' Wolf's 'How Many More Tears." I always thought the song was How Many More Years. I understand the Y and T are next to each other, so let's chalk that one up to the editor.
How about Houses of the Holy... check this out: "Plant enjoys himself on the last track 'No Quarter' and thus closes an imaginative and curious album." Perhaps Neil Daniels has obtained that rare copy of Houses of the Holy that is devoid of The Ocean?
Let's examine the acknowledgements. The author thanks Al Atkins (former lead singer of Judas Priest), Frankie Banali and Kevin DuBrow of Quiet Riot, Ernie Chataway of Judas Priest (whose sole contribution to the book seems to be telling the author that he
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Robert Plant
English soloist (born 1948)
For the Arts plant amasser, see Parliamentarian William Plant.
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Page made a successful return to the stage at a Jeff Beck show in March 1981 at the Hammersmith Odeon. He also appeared with the A.R.M.S. (Action Research for Multiple Sclerosis) a charity of concerts in 1983 which honoured Small Faces bass player Ronnie Lane, who suffered from the disease.
A 1984 video of a London A.R.M.S. concert was released featuring two songs from Page’s work on the Death Wish II soundtrack (the Charles Brosnan film), featuring Steve Winwood on vocals, and an on stage jam of “Layla” reunited Page with Yardbirds guitarists Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton.
The Madison Square Garden show featured vocals by future The Firm vocalist Paul Rodgers who was originally with Free and then Bad Company.
During the tour Page looked extremely thin and frail. According to the book “Hammer of the Gods”, Page reportedly told friends that he’d just given up heroin after seven years of use.
Page next linked up with Roy Harper for an album “Whatever Happened to Jugula?” and occasional concerts, performing a predominantly acoustic set at folk festivals under various guises such as the MacGregors, and Themselves.
In 1984, Page recorded with former Zeppelin vocalist, Robert Plant as The Honeydrippers, and with John Paul Jones on th