Robert Plant: A Life (44 page)

BOOK: Robert Plant: A Life
13.94Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub

Dave “Rowdy” Yeats, proprietor of the Groove Record Shop in Stourbridge, a regular haunt of Plant’s during the mid ’60s.

(© David Yeats)

Plant, top left, with Listen in 1966. “He was very popular with the girls,” said guitarist John Crutchley, top right.

(© John Crutchley)

Plant on his ill-starred Legalise Pot march, August 1967. Shirley Wilson is to his immediate left.

(© Redferns)

Plant and John Bonham (with moustache) with the third incarnation of the Band of Joy, circa 1968. “A number could go on for 10, 15 minutes—God help the poor audience.”

(© Redferns)

Plant and Jimmy Page on stage at the New Yardbirds’ first gig at Teen-Clubs in Gladsaxe, Denmark, September 7, 1968. “Straight away, we could see the power of it,” said Page.

(© Redferns)

Plant at the time of his joining the New Yardbirds. “He seemed sort of God-like.”

(© Redferns)

Led Zeppelin come together in London, 1968: from left—John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Bonham.

(© Redferns)

On stage at London’s Royal Albert Hall, June 29, 1969. “It was like a rocket going up their fucking arses!”

(© Mirrorpix)

Plant somewhere in America during the heady days of 1969. “All around me galaxies were going, ‘Boom! Boom! Boom!’ I absorbed it all like moon dust.”

(© Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Zeppelin arriving in Hawaii in May 1969 with the Led Zeppelin II master tapes.

(© Redferns)

Shelter from the storm: Plant at home with his wife Maureen and their daughter Carmen, 1969.

(© Camera Press/© Randolph)

Plant and friend at his sanctuary, Jennings Farm. “I was incredibly fortunate to have the decompression chamber of that and my family.”

(© Camera Press/© Randolph)

The proverbial hippy and his bird at the Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, June 2, 1973. “It was like walking into the lion’s den.”

(© James Fortune/Rex Features)

Other books

John Brown by Raymond Lamont Brown
An Outlaw Wedding by Jenika Snow
Sultry Sunset by Mary Calmes
The Workhouse Girl by Dilly Court
Her Highland Fling by Jennifer McQuiston
You're Not Broken by Hart, Gemma
Never Say Never by Jenna Byrnes
Warrior Angel by Robert Lipsyte
DeliciousDanger by Desiree Holt