Robert Plant was a very passionate man from a very young age. When he was 20, he already joined Jimmy Page’s Yardbirds reboot in 1968. The Yardbirds were already known for having some of the biggest guitarists such as Page, Eric Clapton, and Jeff Beck.
Page was quite talented himself but with the addition of Jones and Bonham’s instrumental and Plant’s unique vocal abilities, he became unstoppable. During an interview with Classic Rock in 2008, he recalled the moment he first met with Page.
“I was appearing at this college when [manager Peter Grant] and Jimmy turned up and asked me if I’d like to join the Yardbirds, I knew the Yardbirds had done a lot of work in America – which to me meant audiences who would want to know what I might have to offer – so, naturally, I was very interested,” Plant said.
Not long after John Paul Jones and John Bonham joined the group, The New Yardbirds were known as Led Zeppelin and became one of the biggest rock bands in the world.
Robert always had a broad taste in music and when he was asked about his favorite tracks, he would always surprise the fans with his answers and that’s what happened when he was asked the same question in 2022.
Robert Plant’s One Of All Time Favorite Song
Robert Plant always had a broad taste in music, during their 12-year career with Led Zeppelin, Plant mostly delivered blues-based rock ‘n’ roll with a touch of heaviness. Although the band was initially known as Hard Rock they would often go with other genres like Reggae and Folk as well.
Plant was never interested in the same form of music. He was interested in different artists and their different forms of music. That’s why Plant always has an extra song as his favorite that shocks the fans.
During an interview with BBC Radio 4 in 2022, he listed some of his favorite songs and one of them was “Teenage Ska” by Oswald “Baba” Brooks. Oswald used to make jazz in the 50s and in the 60s he recorded the original Jamaican Ska for various producers.
“There I was, far from home and I met this magnificent lady who would later become my wife. She was from a great anglo-indian family. They gave me a home,” he said. Plant explained that he heard the song before Zeppelin was formed and at that time he was about to feet his first wife.
“I’ve put bitumen on West Bromwich high street, drived the dumper and stuff. At the end of it all I ended up in the Casa Bamboo in West Bromwich with a bunh of west indians. (Also) a lot of Jamaicans just listening to the most deep Ska. So this was one of my ever time favorites,” Robert Plant added.
Plant has always been a fan of Jamaican music and we can even see that in Led Zeppelin’s 1973 album “Houses of the Holy” which had the track “D’yer Mak’er.” The track also represented Jamaica and is one of the fewest songs where ever members of the Zeppelin were songwriters.