filed on July 11th, 2006 by Press Officer
Originally appeared in This is London (UK)
by Jane Cornwell
Old rockers never die, it seems, they just discover world music. Though to his credit, Robert Plant has always had a penchant for sounds from elsewhere. Led Zeppelin’s seminal 1975 album Kashmir was shot through with Eastern influences.
Songs such as What Is and What Will Never Be were pilfered freely from British folk. The wail of the Muezzin could be detected in the vocal wig-outs of Whole Lotta Love. Plant was our most wild-haired and tighttrousered of rock gods, but his sources were anything but clichéd.
Three decades later, on the back of last year’s acclaimed album Mighty Rearranger, the 57-year-old troubadour is everyone’s favourite world-folk-rock Renaissance man. ||Continue reading||
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filed on July 11th, 2006 by Press Officer
Originally appeared in Sun Online (UK)
By SIMON ROTHSTEIN
BEFORE last night’s gig at Somerset House Robert Plant could have been any other 58-year-old man - sipping tea backstage from his Elvis Presley mug.
On stage he transformed into one of the greatest vocalists this country has ever produced. ||Continue reading||
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filed on July 10th, 2006 by Press Officer
Originally appeared on TimesOnline (UK)
Cornbury Festival–July 8, 2006
by David Sinclair at Chasrbury, Oxfordshire
Set in the immaculately landscaped grounds of a 17th-century stately home in Charlbury, Oxfordshire, the Cornbury Festival is a rather more upmarket pop gathering than the norm. Plenty of space, delicious food, agreeable lavatories. No wonder people were calling it Poshstock. “It’s certainly a bit different from the V Festival last year,” said Robert Plant, approvingly, as he introduced Let The Four Winds Blow. Unfortunately, the song produced its own instant karma, and no sooner had his group the Strange Sensation struck up the twanging voodoo-blues riff than a gust of cold wind brought the first drops of rain to fall on an otherwise balmy summer day. ||Continue reading||
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filed on June 30th, 2006 by Press Officer
Originally appeared on rollingstone.com
by David Fricke
Robert Plant ended his headlining hour at “We’re Doing It for Love” – a benefit for Arthur Lee, the ailing singer-songwriter of the pioneering Los Angeles band Love, at New York’s Beacon Theater on June 23rd – with “Ramble On” from Led Zeppelin II. It was a perfect finale, a thrilling folk-rock gallop with Plant singing of those “days of old, when magic filled the air” with the same excited, forward motion he heard as a teenager in Love’s classic mid- and late-Sixties albums. ||Continue reading||
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