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Robert Anthony Plant was born on August 20, 1948 in West Bromwich, Staffordshire
ENGLAND, but grew up in Kidderminster. Around the age of 16 he started
testing his skills in a band called The Crawling King Snakes, a collaboration
with Band Of Joy followed, a group in which John Bonham played the drums.
Plant was invited by Jimmy Page to join Led
Zeppelin in 1968 with John Paul Jones, the singer than recomended
Bonham to be their drummer and they promptly became the biggest Rock band
in the world.
Things took a turn for the worse in 1977 when Plant's only son, Karac,
died of a stomach infection; his death inspired the magnificent "All
My Love".
Tragedy struck again, three years later, when Bonham died on September
25, 1980, after a night of heavy drinking. On December 4, that same year,
Led Zeppelin announced their breakup.
Robert Plant launched his solo career with the release of his debut album,
"Pictures At Eleven", in the summer of 1982, the record rose
to #2 in Britain and to #5 in U.S. Top 200 LPs & Tapes chart spawning
no less than four Mainstream Rock singles including the #3 "Burning
Down One Side", the #10 "Worse Than Detroit", the #11 "Pledge
Pin" and one more top 20 hit in "Slow Dancer".
One year later arrived a second album, "The Principle Of Moments",
which cracked the top 10 on both U.S. and U.K. charts, it also generated
a string of successful single cuts such as "Big Log" which hit
the top 10 in Britain, the top 20 in U.S. and the #6 position on The Mainstream
Rock chart. "Other Arms" soared to #1 on The Mainstream Rock
chart, "In The Mood" and "Far Post" reached the #4
and #12 slots, respectively, on the same chart; he followed up with his
first international solo tour.
Plant and Jimmy Page got back together in 1984 and recorded under the
monicker The Honeydrippers the 5-cover-track mini-album, "Volume
1", which was released that fall; the disc smashed into the top 5
of the U.S. Pop Albums chart.
The singer returned a year later with his third solo-effort, the synth-Rock
styled "Shaken 'N' Stirred", this album broke into top 20 of
both the Official U.S. and U.K. charts thanks to the keen finesse of "Little
By Little" which cracked the top 40 of The Billboard Hot 100 and
rose to #1 on The Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, also "Sixes And Sevens"
became a Mainstream Rock top 20 hit.
Robert Plant joined Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones at Live Aid on July
13, 1985 singing a few Zeppelin classics like "Rock And Roll",
"Whole Lotta Love" and "Stairway To Heaven"; Plant
then disbanded the original line-up of his back-up band.
After nearly a three years break, in February 1988, Plant returned with
"Now And Zen" which restored his solo career as the record soared
to #6 on The Billboard Top 200 and debuted at #10 on the British Albums
chart; in U.S. five singles stormed the top 40 of The Mainstream Rock
Tracks chart: "Dance On My Own" reached the #10 spot, "Ship
Of Fools" hit #3, both "Heaven Knows" and "Tall Cool
One" climbed two places higher to #1; the latter of wich reached
the #25 position on The Billboard Hot 100, on this song Jimmy Page played
all the guitar parts.
"Manic Nirvana" arrived in the spring of 1990 debuting in the
top 20 in U.K. and even U.S. spawning the Active Rock chart-topping "Hurting
Kind (I've Got My Eyes On You)" plus two more top 10 hits, "Tie
Dye On The Highway" and "Your Ma Said You Cried In Your Sleep
Last Night".
Another three years passed before Plant returned with a new album; "Fate
Of Nations" became a huge hit especially in Britain where the 11-song
set peaked at #6 on the strength of the lead single "29 Palms",
which hit #21 on the Official U.K. Top 40 Singles chart; in the States
the album entered The Billboard 200 at #34 and yielded three Mainstream
Rock top 10 hits: the #3 "Calling To You", the #4 "29 Palms"
and the bittersweet "I Believe", dedicated to his son Karac.
In 1994 Plant reunited with Jimmy Page and worked on the televised "No
Quarter" project. After over three and a half years the pair released
"Walking Into Clarksdale" which included "Most High",
the song won them a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance.
Plant released his first solo album since "Fate Of Nations"
in July 2002; the disc, titled "Dreamland", climbed into the
top 20 in the U.K. and into the top 40 in the U.S. with only one Active
Rock top 30 single, "Darkness, Darkness".
The following year, he released the double-disc compilation, "Sixty
Six To Timbuktu", which reached #134 on The Billboard Top 200 chart.
"Mighty Rearranger", which featured Plant's ensemble, Strange
Sensation, hit the top 5 in U.K. and reached the #22 position on The American
Billboard 200 chart upon its May 2005 release; it included the Mainstream
Rock top 20 hit "Shine It All Around".
In October 2007 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss unleashed a collaborative
album called "Raising Sand" on Rounder Records. The LP, produced
by T Bone Burnett and recorded in Nashville and Los Angeles, peaked at
#2 on The Billboard 200.
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