The LED Zeppelin legend Robert Plant has always been a mega fan of the King of rock ‘n’ roll and does a rather convincing impression, he claims, as he reflects on his music career
LED Zeppelin legend Robert Plant has claimed that if his career peters out he could be an “Elvis impersonator”. The frontman has always been a mega fan of the King of rock ‘n’ roll and does a mean impression. Robert, 76, said: “Well, at the end of my first formative period, I was in what you’d loosely call the biggest band in the world.
“The fervour that surrounded that, it was an unearthly condition and because of its terrible finales, I got suddenly launched into that post-Zeppelin thing where I went, I’m never gonna play any Zeppelin stuff again.
“But I was on my own, and Atlantic, Ahmet [Ertegun] and people like that, were saying: ‘Why don’t you put the band back together?’ I said, Look, I’ve made a record called Shaken ‘n’ Stirred. Nobody likes it, but I like it. F*** it. Nobody liked Zeppelin, but we liked it. F*** it.
“And if it ever gets to another point where it’s not like that in my quantifying of it, then I’m lost.
“I’ll just be an Elvis impersonator. I’m really good at doing Elvis!”
Meanwhile Robert, who’s having a partial left knee replacement op this month, told Mojo he enjoys a quieter life now. He explained: “Because I have been to some incredible pinnacles which were unguarded.
“In the beginning with Zeppelin, there was no T-shirts, no security.
“Later on, we each had a cop with a gun with us, everywhere we went. But we were really still just kids.
“So the structure of everything was not covered. Everybody found jobs for themselves on the périphérique of the star quality: somebody to look after you, somebody to offer you something, somebody to coerce somebody not to look after you… all that stuff is just a mess.
“What were the hits? How can they be related to now, where do they fit? They fit as a sort of memoir.
“When people say that I don’t like Stairway To Heaven, I just don’t like the idea of it. These iconic things – they’re just what they are.
“But you know, most people have missed some of the best Zeppelin stuff.”
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