ROBERT PLANT - "I Was Really Quite Keen To Just Walk (Away From LED ZEPPELIN)"
October 30, 2010, 14 years ago
According to Jane Clinton from Express.co.uk, ROBERT PLANT has revealed how he was ready to quit LED ZEPPELIN and become a teacher when his young son died.
The 62 year old said the death of his six-year-old son Karac Pendragon from a virus in 1977 made him reassess his life and he decided to turn his back on the band.
He said: “All of us had been thinking about what would happen next because the illusion had run its course. I’d already lost my boy and then you think: ‘I really have to decide what to do.’ I applied to become a teacher in the Rudolf Steiner education system. I was accepted to go to teacher training college in 1978. I was really quite keen to just walk.”
In the end it was the band’s drummer, John Bonham, who convinced Plant that training as a teacher for the progressive Steiner school system would not be right for him.
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