-Former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant has secured 60-thousand dollars for a Carefree-based charitable donation that aids nomadic people in drought-stricken West Africa. ||Continue reading||

Originally appeared on Wolverhampton Grammar School News Page

One of the region’s leading independent schools hosted Robert Plant in December to open their new music block. Robert Plant formally of supergroup Led Zeppelin has been touring the globe with his new group The Strange Sensation supporting last year’s Grammy nominated album ‘Mighty Rearranger’. ||Continue reading||

Originally published on BBC.co.uk (UK)
photos by Sarah Jeynes

Our region’s most treasured legendary rock hero, Robert Plant, comes to Wolverhampton for 2 nights of rock! ||Continue reading||

From This is Kidderminster
by PAUL WHITTAKER

ROCK legend, Robert Plant, took time out from his world tour to get behind the controls of a mechanical digger to start the building of the new Scout facilities made possible by Operation Covert. ||Continue reading||

Originally appeared on Sunday Mail online (UK)
Billy Sloan

ROCK legend Robert Plant has vowed never to reform supergroup Led Zeppelin for a stadium tour. He says he’d rather sing their classic hits with his new band Strange Sensation at tiny venues to just 1500 fans.

Plant, 57, who plays Edinburgh Corn Exchange next Thursday and Barrowland in Glasgow on October 29, said: “I’ve not been offered vast sums to reform Led Zeppelin. I would never do it anyway. We were a boy band and I’m not a boy any more. I prefer my career to have a bit of dignity now.” ||Continue reading||

Interview with Robert Plant (originally for Start Up magazine, free retailer magazine–translated from French).
21st of october 2005, Paris
© Florence Rajon, 2005

What do you think of the gig you gave at France inter (april/may 2005)? Is it always like that – brilliant – or was it a special night?
Well, there’s an energy level… it’s like… if people start talking about a project on the street or in the media, at my time in my career it’s quite regular that people expect a slow decline in style and grace and originality. But if people begin and say : “Hey, you can’t believe where he’s gone!” then it permeates and it becomes an expectation which is fresh. That hasn’t happened in a long time here. People would say : “Oh, he’s a good singer but why doesn’t he go back to the group ?” (Led Zeppelin, being The Group) all that bullshit and stuff. So it was in the air ; the anticipation was good. And because the band… because we play like that, that’s an average night. Sometimes it’s fantastic, much better than that. ||Continue reading||

Originally appeared in This is Kidderminster (UK)

IF you see a music megastar at the controls of a mechanical digger in Wyre Forest next month, you don’t need to book an appointment with your optician.

A start is being made on building the new Rhydd Covert activity centre between Kidderminster and Bewdley in the first week of November, and rock legend Robert Plant will take centre stage to cut the first trench at the site. ||Continue reading||

Originally appeared in Guardian (UK)

Robert Plant has a new band, an acclaimed album and a bright future. But it’s not enough to banish the ghost of Led Zeppelin, finds Sylvie Simmons

We’ve arranged to meet on Santa Monica Pier, under the roller- coaster. It’s a blazing hot Sunday morning; the air smells of fried food and ozone. Robert Plant - dressed for the occasion in sunglasses, shorts and a Bob Dylan T-shirt - looks remarkably perky for a 56-year-old who last night played one of the most powerful rock shows I’ve seen this year, with his band Strange Sensation. ||Continue reading||

Originally appeared in the Ottawa Citizen
by Lynn Saxberg

Robert Plant — a rock icon inspired by Timbuktu, gin and poetry — arrives in Ottawa to showcase his new creative effort: ‘desert’ music, writes Lynn Saxberg.

Robert Plant was sitting on a gear case in a secret warehouse location in Ottawa yesterday trying to explain the creative breakthrough that led to Mighty Rearranger, his first full album of original material in 12 years. ||Continue reading||

Originally appeared online in Jam! Canoe.ca
By DENIS ARMSTRONG - Ottawa Sun

I live on former glory, so long ago and gone
I’m turning down the talk shows, the humour and the couch
I’m moving up to higher ground, I’ve found a new way out.
– Robert Plant, Tin Pan Valley

If Robert Plant thinks his new album Mighty Rearranger is as good as anything he did with Led Zeppelin, it’s because it made him love music again.

Surrounded by his Strange Sensation bandmates Justin Adams, Billy Fuller and former Portishead members Clive Deamer and John Baggott, Plant looks toned, tanned and in good spirits. While he gives no indication we shouldn’t be talking about Led Zeppelin at a press conference yesterday, it’s obvious the 57-year-old is happy to be making music again. ||Continue reading||