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An archive classic from October 2020. LED-Zeppelin drummer John Bonham died on September 25, 1980. The Briton was only 32 years old. He was under strong alcohol and suffocated on his vomit. At that time he was in the Jimmy Page house, where the band wanted to prepare for the next tour. But after death, Led Zeppelin dissolved. Even today, around 40 years later, Robert is planning the drummer like him In an interview told by the American Rolling Stone.
“We were from the same nest”
“There are quite a few people who were close to me and who are no longer among us, but he is omnipresent,” replies the former singer of Led Zeppelin when asked whether he still has to think of John Bonham. Even if you went different ways, situations in chaos and tears ended, they would always end together in the same place. “We were from the same nest,” says Plant. He also explains: “I still live in the area from which we both come, so he is […] Quite a lot with me. “
Unique selling point: John Bonham’s feeling
Bonhams can still search for his kind: “His contribution to the world of rhythm and drumming has exceeded all the other players because he […] gave the whole thing so much class, so much feeling that we really have a separation between Led Zeppelin and many others [Bands] brought that existed at that time. “
On the special feeling of the drummer, which is one of the most influential in the history of rock worldwide, he also said: “His feeling was everything. One evening we went to Burning Spear on the South Side of Chicago, to see Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland and his orchestra in this trendy black club, and we arrived there and played” Further on up the Road on ” Your love light ”and such things, and all musicians only leaned over to him because he had such a feeling.”
John Bonham is omnipresent
Robert Plant still likes to imagine Bonham alive today: “I am sure that he is in front of a pub in a metaphorical point of view and makes a joke.”