Originally appeared on BBC uk News Online

Singer Robert Plant has set up a bus for blind musicians in Mali as part of a project to keep alive the music and culture of the country’s nomadic Tamashek people. ||Continue reading||

Originally published in Christian Science Monitor
by Stephen Humphries, staff writer

On the Richter scale of rock, Led Zeppelin’s seismic impact measures at least a 10. True, their influence on “Spinal Tap’s” rock spoof scores an 11, but strip away Zeppelin’s ridiculous Stonehenge stage sets and triple-necked guitars and you’re left with an enduring body of music whose sales and legacy have been surpassed only by the Beatles.

It would have been easy, then, for Robert Plant to trade on his former band’s glories since the band’s demise in 1980. Instead, the vocalist has pursued a forward-looking solo career - summarized on a new two-disc retrospective, “‘66 to Timbuktu” (Atlantic) - in which he has striven never to repeat himself. As part of that ethos, he’s also resisted multimillion-dollar offers to reform Led Zep. ||Continue reading||

Originally published in the New Zealand Herald
By JAMES McNAIR

In an upstairs room at the Engineer gastro-pub in north London, Robert Plant is using my minidisc player while sipping vegetable soup from a cup. He is listening to a message I have conveyed from his rock star pal, Tori Amos, a woman who once confessed that Led Zeppelin I - and Plant’s Valhalla wail in particular - was responsible for her sexual awakening. ||Continue reading||

Originally appeared on Soundgenerator.com

Robert Plant is a true legend. As frontman with one of the greatest rock groups of all time, Plant’s powerful, intense vocals propelled Led Zeppelin to over 100 million in record sales and cemented the group in rock n’ roll’s hall of fame. ||Continue reading||

Originally published in Rock’s Backpages
by Barney Hoskyns

For Robert Plant, life after Led Zeppelin has been anything but predictable. Resisting attempts to coast on the Zep legend, Percy has trodden his own singular path through techno-rock, retro-folk and worldbeat eclecticism. Barney Hoskyns travelled to Wales to discuss jump-blues, Haight-Ashbury, Afro-Celts, and the singer’s forthcoming two-CD anthology, ’66 to Timbuktu. ||Continue reading||

Originally published in Stourbridge newspaper

Rock star Robert Plant was on song as he visited an open day in Stourbridge. ||Continue reading||

Originally published in Tennis Magazine
by Kevin O’Keefe

On stage and in recordings, the voice of Robert Plant, lead singer of legendary British heavy-metal band Led Zeppelin, has rocked generations of adolescents. On the tennis court, though, his singing can strike the wrong note. “One time I found myself uncontrollably encouraging my doubles partner to move her feet,” says Plant, 55, an advanced intermediate. “I started singing this song to the melody of ‘Happy Talk’ [from South Pacific], except I made up words about happy feet. I was going, ‘Pick your feet up!’ After that I found out that a couple people [at my club] didn’t want to play with me anymore.”  This year, Plant’s solo CD Dreamland earned a Grammy nomination for best rock album. But it’s the hits on the court that have him singing today. ||Continue reading||

Originally published in Classic Rock Magazine
by Dave Ling

As the Hullabaloo over Led Zeppelin’s chart-conquering retrospective DVD and double live CD begin to subside, the lives of vocalist Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page are starting to return to normal. ||Continue reading||

Originally published in Independent (UK)
by Tim Cumming

Robert Plant took the hippie route to Essakane, in the Malian Sahara, to play at the world’s most remote music festival. The singer tells Tim Cumming why he was blown away ||Continue reading||

Originally appeared on This is Bristol

Rock legend Robert Plant will get an extra half an hour to strut his stuff when he headlines Bristol Community Festival. The Led Zeppelin frontman was originally due to perform for one hour on the main stage at Ashton Court, finishing at 11pm. ||Continue reading||