Robert Plant feels like old man on Led Zeppelin IV cover

Robert Plant allowed himself a joke and compared his own state of mind these days with a Led Zeppelin album cover. Now in his older years, Plant has become the man carrying sticks on the artwork for Led Zeppelin’s fourth self-titled album, Plant said in a post on his podcast Digging Deep.

Retired to a cabin in the woods

The singer had actually been thinking about the working process on Led Zeppelin’s third self-titled studio album. It was about a break in a cabin in Snowdonia, Wales, where the band wanted to recover from the stress of touring and where there was no running water or electricity. According to Plant, this retreat gave the musicians new impetus.

For the first and only time in your life you had to use a shared toilet that was not in your own four walls.

In doing so, he brought up how liberating this simple life is, especially for the spirit – if you take it for a specific reason. This also included collecting wood, as the 73-year-old confirmed, which brought him straight to his anecdote: “There’s the old guy with the sticks on his back on Zeppelin IV. … I’m that guy now! Everywhere I go I pick up logs, wrap them with a piece of twine and shove them on my back just in case someone drives by and says, ‘There’s that guy from the Led Zeppelin IV album cover! ‘”

In conversation, Plant revealed that everything that happened during the production of Led Zeppelin’s first two albums was so intense that the band would have raved about a crazy trip “if it had all ended in 1970 again”.

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