Robert Plant
Robert Plant
Robert Anthony Plant, CBEis an English musician, singer, and songwriter best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. A powerful and wide vocal rangehave given him a successful solo career spanning over 40 years. Plant is regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of rock and roll; he has influenced fellow rock singers such as Freddie Mercury, Axl Rose and Chris Cornell. In 2006, Heavy Metal magazine Hit Parader named Plant...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth20 August 1948
CityWest Bromwich, England
I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.
What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old [I] would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.
I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.
I don't see what the point is in growing up.
I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.
How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself.
It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.
Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.
I may as well do everything as if it’s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it’s a compromise, then I’ll...I’ll be in Wisconsin.
The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.
I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.
I'm tipping the hat and looking back.
The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.