First published on This is Worccester Online

A MUSIC lecturer has generated international interest in a college demo tape after revealing it contains a rare recording of Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant. ||Continue reading||

Review of Roseland Ballroom show July 1, 2001
Originally appeared on newyorkrock.com
by Glyn Emmerson

“Does anybody remember laughter?” I remember giggles and paranoia after smoking my first joint while listening to Led Zeppelin IV (the album with “Stairway to Heaven” on it). ||Continue reading||

Originally published in Friends of Deia–Summer 2001

One of Robert Plant’s great obsessions, besides his music, has been wood; almost every type, shape and variety of wood. He loves the look and feel, yes, and he says “the smell of wood!” I’m excited with “the smell of African hard wood treated with oil.” Plant believes this love of wood goes back to his childhood and the times he spent with his uncle who was a carpenter. His home on the Welsh border is almost a museum of wood in dozens of shapes and forms, including beds, doors and tables, old and new, which he’s collected on visits here and elsewhere. ||Continue reading||