Robert Plant Biography

Fast Facts

• Honored with CBE distinctions in 2009
• Recipient of the Knebworth Silver Clef Award in 1990
• Quote: "There's a sortof transfixion between ourselves and the audience, which is wonderful․ It's a great level to have reached with people who you don't know by name․ That is my idea of the ultimate sort of communication level․"
• Quote: "[Regarding his first album with Led Zeppelin] "It was quite remarkable and overwhelming really․ We didn't know the merit and worth of what we'd got, but we knew it was exciting․""
• Quote: "One should never allow themselves to think that they have․ One can just touch․ To have is a lack of appreciation, to touch is to want to touch again․"
• Quote: "The blues becomes every color of the rainbow in the end; it can be presented in all sorts of absolutely different ways, which is magnificent really․"
• Quote: "[Regarding his love of performing on stage] "When I started, all I wanted to do was get out in form․ I just wanted to sing․ A simple thing․ I loved the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice․""
• Following the death of John Bonham and subsequent dissolution of Led Zeppelin in 1980, he would pursue a solo career, releasing his debut solo album Pictures at Eleven, in 1982
• Formed Led Zeppelin in 1968 after meeting guitarist Jimmy Page, with whom he instantly began collaborating
• Initially trained to become an accountant, but left after only two weeks in order to pursue music
• Named vice president of the Wolverhampton Wanderers, a British football club, in 2009