The two songs of the Zeppelin that Plant believes underestimated

Robert Plant is no longer the singer of Led Zeppelin For 45 years now. He is in full, to the Onta of his 77 years, of a solo career that is giving him immense satisfaction. The other’s exit of the album is just on the other “Saving Grace” (Read the review here). Really excellent.

But here we return to his period Zeppelin and an interview granted to the Mojo magazine in which Plant spoke of the songs of the group dissolved in the aftermath of the drummer’s death John Bonham In 1980, especially two songs that in his opinion are underestimated. He said: “What were the successes? How can they be connected to the present, where do they fit? When people say that I don’t like” Stairway to Heaven “, I simply don’t like the idea. These iconic things are simply what they are. Most people have lost some of the best pieces of the Zeppelin.” For your life “, on” Presence “, for example.”

And he continued again by saying: “Really, in” for your life “Bonham and Jones pulled out a lot of material from the unknown. It is simply crazy. And Jimmy, simply … we played it in the 2007 reunion, without John, but it did it. The smell of fear on that stage was truly remarkable. Because sometimes we were chaotic, and other times great.

“For your life”
included in the seventh album of
Led Zeppelin “Presence”
Published in 1976, he was sung in the studio by
Robert Plant
Sitting in a wheelchair, as it was recovering from a car accident. Although it was in that state, Plant once said it was still in a better state than the rest of the band. As said they played it in their reunion in 2007, later Plant said they were aware that only those who really appreciated the
Led Zeppelin
He would have known what song they were playing. They had never played that live song before, and it was not among their most famous pieces. Even some reviews of the live reported that they had played an unpublished song.

This is the story of Plant in Mojo: “We thought: ‘If we manage to do it, most people will probably never know what it is, apart from those who really love Led Zeppelin.’ And, as expected, there were some reviews that said: ‘They made a new song!’ They were obviously referring to ‘for your life’.

In his podcast “Digging Deep”in 2019 Robert Plant he recalled the story behind “Achilles Last Stand”another song from the album “Present”. “Think of Led Zeppelin as a trio, with a kind of wedding singer, at the forefront. I always saw the reality of what was happening, my enthusiasm gave a good contribution, but in reality those guys were fantastic. I think ‘Achilles Last Stand’ came in a difficult period during the recording of the album ‘presentce’. It was a desperate period, I was on a wheelchair for seven months or down. Music continued to evolve. Even if “present” is not always the most pleasant record to listen A friend, I was playing it at home at full volume.

The former singer of Led Zeppelin Then he told how he was born “Achilles Last Stand”: “I was lying on the bed in Los Angeles, it was Halloween of 1975. I was alone in a room in this old squalid hotel while the world outside made a brye. It was totally different from my state, my leg and my fading arm. So I started writing about freedom and escape. Everything, the preparation, throughout the song, is like going to a place that is an aesthetic reward in terms of beauty, space. He spoke of the atlas of the Atlas, of the Return to Morocco. Above all, wherever you find me, even now, after all these years, I would really like to be there.