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Robert Plans wants to know again. New album. North America tour. Media appearances. However, he maintains a rather distant relationship with his popular treasures, the great success of Led Zeppelin. “What were the ‘hits’?” He asks in a current story in the UK magazine “Mojo”. “How can you be associated with the present? Where do you fit? As a kind of memory, ok, but otherwise …”
New album in September
He also meditates through his (alleged) dislike to the overshaft “Stairway to Heaven”. “I just don’t like the idea behind it. These iconic things are simple what they are. But most people missed some of the best Zeppelin songs. For example” for your life “or” Achilles Last “on” Presence “(the seventh LED Czi album from 1976). So really that three guys and a singer got something like that was really remarkable. “
The 77-year-old (birthday on August 20) soon announced a new album with his current accompanying band around singer Suzi Dan for the end of September 2025. “Saving Grace” will be called, with selected cover songs, such as “Everybody’s Song” from the band Low. Alternative country with material from Memphis Minnie, Bob Mosley (Moby Grape) or blind Willie Johnson.
In doing so, he continues his projects with the blues and country singer Alison Krauss, with whom he regularly has been working irregularly since the mid-naval years, in style. Her joint album “Raise the Roof” from 2021 even made it into German charts. In June 2024, the two most recently released the LED Czi classic “When the Levee Breaks”.
So now “Saving Grace”. The shows of the formation of the same name, which previously took place in southern France and Spain, had Led Zeppelin’s “Friends”, “Four Sticks” and “The Rain Song” in the set lists.
However, the widely known hit pods should not exist as an official reunification with the rest of the zeppelins, such as in 2007 in honor of Atlantic Records boss Ahmet Ertegun.
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The homage to Ahmet would have been a successful thing at the time, said Plant. Even without the drummer John Bonham, who died in 1980, whose death finally led to the band. “It was a good lesson. The smell of fear on this stage was remarkable. Because sometimes we were chaotic and sometimes great. It should be like that if you take such risks.” But he would not need more of it, he said.
His very own opinion is also planning for the farewell concert by Black Sabbath. Despite the invitation of Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, he was not at the “Back to the Beginning” high office.
“I said: Tony, I would like to come, but I can’t come,” said Plant Plant in the “Mojo” conversation. “It just doesn’t work. I don’t say that I would rather hang out with Peter Gabriel or Youssou N’Dour. But I don’t know anything about what else happens in this world. I don’t judge it, I have nothing against it. It is only that I have found other places that are so rich.”
That is also the reason why he set the “Saving Grace” shows beyond the big arenas. “These concerts are small enough that it is not the end of the world if nobody wants to come,” said Plant Modestly.