Because the Led Zeppelin will no longer meet, according to Robert Plant

The December 10, 2007 at the O2 Arena in London What would remain the last, unrepeatable chapter of the history of Led Zeppelin, went on stage. Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones They returned together on stage for one of their rare live shows after the death of John Bonham, which took place in 1980, who had sanctioned the end of the historic band as stated in the famous press release of that time. With Jason Bonhamson of the late drummer, behind the skins, the Led Zeppelin they gathered for a single, memorable evening In tribute to Ahmet Estrate, founder of the Atlantic Records: an event that, after years, remains carved as the their last breeze live. Already then Plant had been categorical to underline that It was a memorable and extraordinary event. Despite the millionaire offers arrived to convince the band to leave for a world tour after the reunion that took place on December 10, 2007, the singer remained still on his position and, almost twenty years later, He is still convinced that he, Page and Jones will never go up on a stage together.

Robert Plant is currently focused on the Saving Grace project, with which he is ready to release an album entitled – precisely – “Saving Grace“, And to be released on September 26. The imminent publication of his new study work, he offered the opportunity to take care of several interviews. In a recent chat for” Mojo “, during which he also spoke of his absence at the final event of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath, the 76 -year -old artist stressed that in a parallel universe, perhaps, he would still sound in the stadiums Zeppelin. For Plant, now, it is much more attractive to perform in theaters with his band. In the interview the frontman of the legendary formation of “Communication Breakdown”, he said:

“For me, after having passed from a rather questionable live AID to O2, up to Obama, the White House and all those experiences, it was like being consecrated. I felt the call to dedicate myself to this: Saving Grace only needed to rise towards glory, as Mavis Staples would say”.

Robert Plant has therefore added: “Now we have to be very careful to stay closer to Bert Jansch than to Axl Rose”. According to the Plant, moreover, the concerts of his Saving Grace project do not involve the same pressure level as a show as the Led Zeppelin. The artist said: “The concerts are small enough to say that, if nobody wants to come, it is not the end of the world. And so, with that slightly laissez-faire attitude, relax-call it as you want, suicide!-instead of filling a football stage with some old friend, here we are: free. We can also allow us to joke and experience”.

However, The past in the Led Zeppelin still manages to surprise Plantwhich in the same interview for “Mojo” also remembered with affection of the historical band such as “For your Life” and “Achilles Last Stand”. “Holy Christ,” said the singer: “It is extraordinary that three people and a singer can do such a thing“. Despite pride for a catalog that marked an era, Robert Plant However, it is not willing to put the group back together only for a lavish compensation. Returning at the latest 2007 concert, Plant said:

“I suppose that doing it so much to do it has never been what the Led Zeppelin represented. The tribute to Ahmet made sense. You know, even without John, worked.”

Always reflecting on the historic concert at the O2 Arena, Robert commented: “The smell of fear on that stage was rather remarkable. It is right that it is, however, if you take risks”.

Already last year, Robert Plant had made it known that he was skeptical about a Led Zeppelin reunion, also saying that he feels disappointed and bewitted from the possibility. In 2018, even, even the year that marked the fifty anniversary of the birth of the band of “Whole Fight Love”, in Plant had been asked if there would never have been a way to see him again on the same stage with Jimmy Page during a interview broadcast by 91.9 WFPK, a Kentucky radio broadcaster. “Fans have the band in their hearts,” he pointed out the speaker. And the singer had replied: “I too (I have the band in my heart). Nobody more than me. But I don’t want to wrong anyone”.

For his part, last February, Page also closed definitively to a reunion of the Led Zeppelin: interviewed by the British tabloid “Metro” on the occasion of the release of the documentary “Becoming Led Zeppelin”, the guitarist at the precise question on a future return of the band had answered:

“I think the future of Led Zeppelin is the past. Because the past cannot be questioned. Do you know the Abba? Here, what they did cannot be questioned, because it is simply extraordinary and has been put together in an intelligent way”. Then, with a joke, he added: “Maybe in about 20 years I could do it”.