Originally published in Manchester Online

ROCK legend Robert Plant characterises the sound of his new band, Strange Sensation, as “enthusiasm, zest and some attitude.”

It’s an approach shown off to considerable effect on his terrific Dreamland album, on which he addresses many of the sixties songs that he has always loved but which never really made their influence felt on Led Zeppelin’s output. He puts a vibrant new spin on songs like The Youngbloods’ Darkness, Darkness, the Love/Byrds version of Hey Joe and Tim Buckley’s Song To The Siren, as well as material from Moby Grape and Bob Dylan. ||Continue reading||

Originally published on Worcester Evening News (UK, Online Edition)

FORMER Led Zeppelin star Robert Plant has offered to promote Kidderminster College’s record label on his national tour. ||Continue reading||

Originally published in Indie (UK)
Answer the Questions: Robert Plant

Robert Plant was born in West Bromwich in 1948 and was invited by Jimmy Page to join Led Zeppelin in 1968. They promptly became the biggest rock band in the world, before splitting in 1980 following the death of drummer John Bonham. Plant has pursued a solo career ever since. ||Continue reading||

Originally appeared on the Classic Rock TK99 website
courtesy of Rockline, hosted by Bob Coburn

Robert Plant may have pioneered the quintessential rock-frontman persona as the lead singer of hard-rock goliaths Led Zeppelin with his wild mane, bare-chested shimmies and falsetto screams, but he and his erstwhile band offered way more than just superficial eye and ear candy. From the updated blues classics that filled out Zep’s debut album to the folk-inspired “Going to California” (from their monumental fourth disc), the British quartet — Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones and now-deceased drummer John Bonham — always was interested in the “other” in rock & roll: art forms like the Delta blues and folk music. While Zep’s sound may have strayed just outside of the mainstream, their appeal certainly did not — the now-defunct band ranks among the most successful recording acts of all time. ||Continue reading||

Originally published in Express and Star (UK, online edition)
By Pete Carroll

Rock god Robert Plant has launched an outspoken attack on Robbie Williams, branding him a “jerk” who will never crack the lucrative American market. ||Continue reading||

Originally published on BBC Hereford and Worcester (UK, Online)
By Dan Johnson

A new record has been launched at Kidderminster College by rock legend Robert Plant. BBC Hereford and Worcester’s Web Producer Dan Johnson was at the launch party and spoke to Robert about the new label. ||Continue reading||

Originally published in Edmonton Journal
By Ben Wener
The Orange County Register

Led Zeppelin’s wailing vocalist rediscovers melody with new band

Only the deafly devoted would contend that Robert Plant has had an impeccable solo career.

Certainly some of his works has earned justifiable praise, Pictures at 11, for instance, the first and still finest foray from a member of Led Zeppelin since its breakup in 1980, remains a remarkable (if often forgotten) accomplishment, a logical extension of his former approach that today isn’t trapped by its era. ||Continue reading||

Originally published in Worcester Evening News (UK, Online Edition)

EX-Led Zeppelin star Robert Plant, who was recently appointed patron of Kidderminster College’s record label, will be making a speech about it at a launch party. ||Continue reading||

This is a transcript of an interview given during the Austin City Limits broadcast on PBS

ACL: How did it feel tonight? This is the first time you’ve been on our show, on our stage, in Austin.You’ve done a lot of TV over the years.

a: (Robert Plant): Yeah, and you’ve got it down, here, I mean the technical side of things and that sort of thing. It’s good to walk in here and know that you’re in good hands. And we’ve got it down because we’re a very close-knit, you know, musicians. It’s not turn up and go to different dressing rooms and… there’s a lot of that about.

There’re a lot of professional musicians and we’re a proper unit of people, so we can more or less turn this on on a street corner. ||Continue reading||

Originally published in Las Vegas Review-Journal
By Doug Elfman

In 1977, Robert Plant’s 6-year-old son died in an accident. [this is incorrect. See note at bottom] Three years later, John Bonham, the drummer in his band Led Zeppelin died during a vodka binge. Upon hearing the news of Bonham’s death, Plant decided immediately that the world’s most influential metal band was dead, too. ||Continue reading||