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Article: Plant sows the seeds for future of music; Former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant is more likely to tidy up hotel rooms than trash them these days. But he can still explain the difference between today's rock 'n' roll wildmen and grass roots music, as Neil Connor discovered.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- December 3, 2005
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Byline: Neil Connor
As a music-obsessed schoolboy, my burning ambition was to become a journalist and interview Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant.
I pictured us both sitting backstage after a sell-out show at a stadium, surrounded by dozens of rock chicks offering a Whole Lotta Love.
There was me, sitting on an amplifier, scribbling away as we just finished our fourth crate of beer.
Opposite was Plant, dressed in tight-fitting denim action slacks, a flowered shirt and a belt ...