By Danny Fields
“Well, don’t forget that the reason people dress up and become rock ‘n’roll stars is because I think we have something wrong with us anyway. We have something missing. Some kind of personality deficiency if you like, which we have to compensate for by being the center of attention.” —Robert Plant London, February, 1988 ||Continue reading||
Posted in a1988 |
Originally Published in Kerrang Magazine
by Neil Jeffries
After over two years, ROBERT PLANT and band are back touring Europe, promoting their new LP ‘Manic Nirvana’. The long wait and earlier oversights mean they’re having to start afresh and do it the hard way - on buses and trains - playing to crowds, many of whom know little of Mr. Plant’s legendary background. NEIL JEFFRIES is, however, plenty old enough to know better, so gets himself an interrail card and heads for Lyon where the railway station announcer explains helpfully, “The blonde mane now standing on platform nine, used to be in Led Zeppelin…” ||Continue reading||
Posted in a1988 |
