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Article: Rock legend set to blast Barrowland music Robert Plant, Barrowland
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- October 28, 2005
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ROBERT Plant is little short of a living legend: as frontman of
Led Zeppelin, he had 40,000-watt charisma that electrified gigantic
stadiums bulging with hoary prog-rockers for three solid hours.
Yet he was one of those guys you either loved or hated. Where some
swooned at his thrusting, primal, snake-hipped performances, howling
like an animal in heat beneath that wild mop, others saw a preening,
skinny, jumped-up, yowling Brummie boy.
Where some fell entranced by his neo-pagan poetry, filled with
misty mountains, hammer-wielding gods, angels of Avalon and bustles
in your hedgerow, cynics smirked about goblins and anorakish Tolkien
fans.
Where he seized Jimmy Page's rollicking rock 'n' roll ...