As reported yesterday, Author Neil Daniels and the Independent Music Press are releasing the new biography - ROBERT PLANT: LED ZEPPELIN, JIMMY PAGE & The Solo Years - on February 28th in the UK. Price: £12.99. The book is the first and only complete biography of a genuine rock legend – including his complete solo work post-Led Zeppelin.

An excerpt from the press release is as follows:

Robert Plant is a genuine rock legend. He is the archetypal Rock God. Amazingly, thirty years on, his star continues to shine and his ambitions and convictions grow stronger. The tumultuous but endlessly fascinating tale of Led Zeppelin is central to his life, but that twelve-year period ended with the sad and premature death of drummer John ‘Bonzo’ Bonham in 1980. And Plant has been recording new music almost constantly in the twenty-five years since. For the first time, his solo years – famously working with his former Led Zep cohort Jimmy Page, numerous guest appearances and on his own material – are covered in depth in a complete rock biography. With Led Zeppelin he conquered the world and with a close and continuing partnership with Zeppelin six-stringer Jimmy Page he straddled the boundaries of rock, blues and heavy metal. He teamed up with Jimmy Page in 1994 but their two-album partnership came to an abrupt and controversial end in 1998. The likes of his revered solo album Dreamland, which consists of a relatively obscure batch of cover songs, pays homage to Plant’s earliest and ongoing influences and passions such as Southern American blues and classic fifties R&B; the book also places Plant’s later work in the wider context of both Led Zep’s own legacy and the broader history of modern music. The book will make a wonderful companion piece to Plant’s 2-disc compilation Sixty Six To Timbuktu which includes pre and post Led Zeppelin material. In an interview with Spin magazines Chuck Klosterman, surprisingly, Plant said that he’d never read the famed Hammer Of The Gods bio but “the only thing I read was the ‘After Zeppelin’ part, because I was so eager to get on with music and stop living in a dream state.” Evidently, Plant himself wants the world to understand and appreciate his solo music and what better way than in a book? This is the very first book to tell the complete story of an enthusiastic young kid from the West Midlands who belied his humble blues roots and defied his stern parents by becoming one of the world’s most recognizable and iconic rock superstars. This biography brings his career slap-bang up-to-date covering his latest album Raising Sand with the revered bluegrass singer ALISON KRAUSS and the highly-publicised Led Zeppelin reunion in December, 2007. This book tells you how he got there and remains so today.