Robert Plant, on tour in Australia at the moment – Blues Fest this weekend, Sydney last week (READ MY REVIEW OF THAT SHOW HERE) - is only doing a handful of Led Zeppelin songs in his set. And as that review suggests, there’s nothing wrong with that, no matter how many dadjeans-wearing demands are made at the shows. It’s not always been the case, though it’s fair to say Plant has a lot more on his plate than rehashing his glory days. His complicated relationship with that par

In part one last week, from a hotel in Kansas City, Missouri in 1998, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant had some fun with influences, expectations of gentle middle age and being from thatband. In the second part of the interview, they reveal just what goes on backstage, get short with one question, and happily admit to not really knowing what is coming next on stage some times. There were thoughts of more from the duo. Thoughts later of Led Zeppelin touring again. It wasn’t to be:

In 1998, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page put aside Arabic strings, some enmities, and John Paul Jones again, for what was a rock’n’roll tour of spare but still historic proportions, but definitely NOT Led Zeppelin, ok? In a two-part Wind Back Wednesday, P&P talk freely and amusingly from the whitest corner of Kansas City, Mo. As an aside, I broke the ice with a coolly indifferent Page, while waiting for his partner, when I confessed my teenage aversion to Led Zeppelin had been cr

As I said in an earlier post, I had to pick 50 songs from 50 years to mark a landmark that we don’t need to go over again here thank you very much (cos I still feel like the 13-year-old and I sure act like him often enough). Only one song per year, one song per artist, each with some significance for me. There was a CD, so along with the songs these are excerpts from the liner notes. (Of course there were liner notes.) The first tranche takes us from 1965 to 1989. 1965: The