ROBERT PLANT - "Most Of Those LED ZEPPELIN Songs Are Monuments Of Beauty; I Can’t Write Songs That Good"
October 5, 2010, 14 years ago
Metro met with legendary LED ZEPPELIN singer ROBERT PLANT recently in London to discuss his Band Of Joy album. Here are a few excerpts from the chat:
Metro: BAND OF JOY was a band you were playing with before Led Zeppelin, together with late John Bonham. Is it a way of paying him a tribute?
Plant: "You know, I often think of him. I still miss him a lot ... Three weeks ago, I had lunch with his family, and that was comforting for all of us. I think that Bonzo and I shared the same spirit. And our ambitions for Led Zep were big. We didn’t care about anything because we never knew success. Nothing has been as big as Led Zep was during its existence. Nothing since then either, though."
Metro: Why didn’t you play Led Zep songs, then, except one?
Plant: "To me, most of those songs are monuments of beauty. I can’t write songs that good. I know the musicians pretty well, and we could try to write something approaching that quality. But it would take time to get something as good as the Led Zep songs."
Metro: There is a rumour on the web saying you would be okay for a reformation of Led Zeppelin ...
Plant: "You’d be better off reading Playboy. There’s more substance in this magazine than all those sites on the web!"
Read the entire interview here.
