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Robert Plant
Robert Anthony Plant is an English singer and songwriter. He was the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin from its founding in 1968 until their break-up in 1980. Since then, he has had a successful solo career, sometimes collaborating with other artists such as Alison Krauss. Regarded by many as one of the greatest singers in rock music, he is known for his raw stage performances…
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entertainment · English singer (born 1948) · singer · composer · songwriter · guitarist · rock musician · musician · also Robert Plant, R. A. Plant, Plant
Born 20 August 1948 · Q428223
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2026· 8 entries
Rock101 Online: La historia de Robert Plant ...Una voz capaz de convertirse en identidad
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Stereo Cien: Robert Plant: ¿Por qué no quiere reunir a Led Zeppelin?
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Futuro Chile: De la furia de Led Zeppelin a sus joyas en solitario: los 10 temas imprescindibles para entender el mito de Robert Plant
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Diario Compromiso: Robert Plant: la voz que convirtió a Led Zeppelin en leyenda del rock
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Indie Hoy: El músico que maravilló a Robert Plant y Bob Dylan: "Nadie podría escribir así"
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Released ep “Saving Grace: All That Glitters...”.
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Released album “The Lost and Found Mike the MICrophone Tapes, Volume 258”.
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2025· 7 entries
The Guardian: Robert Plant’s Saving Grace review – self-effacing superstar still sounds astonishing
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Released album “Saving Grace”.
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Released album “Higher Rock”.
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Snopes rated the claim “Former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant visited Texas and built or donated "shelter homes" for Texas flood victims.” False.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Story about $1.5 million donation by Robert Plant to Texas flood victims originated on a reliable news website” AI Image.
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Plant appeared in the musical documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin, directed by Bernard MacMahon and produced by Allison McGourty
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“... The only reality of it is that we did one concert. No matter how you dress it up, look at the situation. That”
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2024· 2 entries
The Guardian: Cambridge folk festival review – Robert Plant thrills, Peggy Seeger inspires and Oysterband rock
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Returned to North America for the Can't Let Go tour
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2023· 2 entries
Released album “The Boardwalk, Sheffield, Britain, 9-25-1999”.
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Released album “Benefit for Arthur Lee, Beacon Theatre, New York City, 6-23-2006”.
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2022· 2 entries
Released album “2022-05-01: Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Henry Westons Big Top, Cheltenham, England”.
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Released album “Rolls Hall, Monmouth, Britain, 1-18-1985”.
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2021· 5 entries
The Guardian: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: Raise the Roof review – uplifting and enthralling
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The Guardian: ‘We’re like Mork and Mindy!’ Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, music’s odd couple
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Released ep “Live at Knebworth”.
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The Guardian: Robert Plant’s teenage obsessions: ‘Stourbridge was our Beverly Hills’
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For Raise the Roof, again produced by Burnett
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2020· 6 entries
Released album “Digging Deep: Subterranea”.
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Released album “Transmission Impossible”.
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Released album “Digging Deep”.
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Plant donated money towards frontline medical supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic
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In 2020, Plant donated money towards frontline medical supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic
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2019· 3 entries
Released album “Volume Two: Non-Album Tracks (1990–2007)”.
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Plant formed the acoustic group Saving Grace
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Released album “Live Principles”.
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2018· 5 entries
The Guardian: Robert Plant and the Sensational Shape Shifters review – rock god reconnects with Celtic roots
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The Guardian: Neal Preston's best photograph: Robert Plant catches a dove
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The Guardian: Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters review – princely pomp and primordial power
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Released album “Live at David Lynch’s Festival of Disruption”.
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Plant received the Americana Music Association UK's Lifetime Achievement Award
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2017· 1 entry
Released album “Carry Fire”.
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2016· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Musicians Robert Plant and Cher plan to wed at Westminster Abbey in July 2016.” False.
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2015· 1 entry
Released ep “More Roar”.
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2014· 2 entries
Released album “Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar”.
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Though suggesting that he was not the reason for Led Zeppelin's dormancy, saying that Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones "are Capricorns
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2012· 3 entries
Released album “Sensational Space Shifters”.
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Released album “Live From the Artists Den”.
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Released album “Unplugged - Live”.
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2011· 1 entry
Released album “Move On”.
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2010· 6 entries
Released album “Band of Joy”.
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Released album “2010-10-29: Live at The Roundhouse, London”.
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And that was it – I was hooked from that moment." In late 2010, BBC Two aired a documentary titled Robert Plant: By Myself.
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Released album “2010-07-13: Live in Memphis 2010: Orpheum Theatre, Memphis, TN, USA”.
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Plant revived the name Band of Joy for a new group featuring Patty Griffin, Buddy Miller, Darrell Scott, Byron House, and Marco Giovino
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Revived the Band of Joy, and in 2012 formed a new band, the Sensational Space Shifters, followed by a reunion with Alison Krauss in 2021
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2009· 3 entries
Plant also won the Outstanding Contribution to Music prize at the Q Awards
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Plant was voted "the greatest voice in rock" in a poll conducted by classic rock radio station Planet Rock
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Was voted the "greatest voice in rock" in a poll conducted by Planet Rock
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2008· 3 entries
Awarded Americana Award for Duo/Group of the Year (2008).
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Rolling Stone named Plant the 15th-greatest singer of all time on their list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time
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“I will not be touring with Led Zeppelin or anyone else for the next two years. Anyone buying Led Zeppelin tickets will be buying bogus tickets.”
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2007· 3 entries
Plant began a collaboration with American bluegrass artist Alison Krauss, releasing their debut studio album Raising Sand, which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2009 and produced the hit song "Please Read t
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Plant began a collaboration with Alison Krauss
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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2006· 4 entries
Released album “Nine Lives”.
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“Greatest Metal Vocalist of All Time”
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Released album “1985-09-08: Mood for a Melody: Live at NEC, Birmingham”.
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The hard rock and heavy metal magazine Hit Parader named Plant as No
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “1984-02-20: Never Been Gone: Festival Hall, Osaka”.
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “Sixty Six to Timbuktu”.
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Released album “Sixty Six to Timbuktu Sampler”.
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2002· 3 entries
Released album “Dreamland”.
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Released album “Best Ballads & Best Rock Songs”.
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And Mighty ReArranger in 2005 with his band Strange Sensation
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “2001-05-31: The Roots of a Plant: Live in New York”.
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “1999-09-25: Sheffield, UK”.
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1999· 1 entry
Released album “Priory of Brion”.
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “1984-02-08: Other Arms: Live in Newcastle, Australia”.
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1995· 2 entries
Led Zeppelin were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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Led Zeppelin were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; Plant performed a medley of blues numbers at the induction show with Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Jason Bonham, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, the
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1994· 6 entries
Released album “Two Days in the Country”.
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Released album “1993-10-04: In the Mood: Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA, USA”.
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Released album “1993-12-13: 29 Palms And 1 Plant: Live at Amsterdam Paradiso”.
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And toured extensively in 1995, including an appearance at the Glastonbury Festival
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During his "Unledded" tour with Jimmy Page, Plant himself reflected tongue-in-cheek upon his Led Zeppelin showmanship:
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Plant stated his desire, as a ten-year-old, to be like Elvis Presley:When I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis
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1993· 3 entries
Released album “Fate of Nations”.
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Released album “1993-06-25: Live at Glastonbury Festival, England”.
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Released album “1993-06-27: Oh Den Haag It's Hard - ParkPop”.
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1992· 2 entries
Released album “1988-05-23: Open Arms: Live at The Spectrum, Philadelphia”.
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Released album “Open Arms”.
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1991· 1 entry
Plant and Shirley Wilson (sister of ex-wife Maureen) had a son, Jesse Lee
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1990· 2 entries
Released album “Manic Nirvana”.
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Released album “Ten From Forty Seven”.
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1988· 2 entries
Released album “Now and Zen”.
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Released album “1988-05-23: Zeppelin Songs: Philadelphia, PA, USA”.
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1985· 2 entries
Released album “Shaken ’n’ Stirred”.
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Released album “1985-09-10: Wembley Arena, London”.
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1984· 2 entries
Also reunited with Jimmy Page in the Honeydrippers, whose EP The Honeydrippers: Volume One included a hit cover of "Sea of Love"
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With a cover version of Phil Phillips' 1959 song "Sea of Love", which featured former Led Zeppelin bandmate Jimmy Page on guitar
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “The Principle of Moments”.
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “Pictures at Eleven”.
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1980· 2 entries
Plant continued to perform and record continuously on a variety of solo and group projects
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Following the death of drummer John Bonham, Plant began a solo career
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1977· 2 entries
“absolutely wracked with pain”
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During Led Zeppelin's US tour, their five-year-old son, Karac, died of a stomach illness
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1975· 1 entry
Plant and his wife, Maureen, were seriously injured in a car crash while on holiday in Rhodes, Greece
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1973· 1 entry
And began taking Welsh lessons and looking into the mythology of the land (such as the Black Book of Carmarthen, the Book of Taliesin, etc
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1970· 1 entry
At Headley Grange while the track was being recorded
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1968· 1 entry
Was invited by manager Peter Grant and guitarist Jimmy Page to join the Yardbirds, which Grant and Page were attempting to keep going after some of its members had left
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1948· 1 entry
Born 1948-08-20.
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