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Article: Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant uproots himself as solo rocker
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 17, 1988
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TORONTO Rock star Robert Plant, who swaggered through a 12-year
career with Led Zeppelin as a singer and sex object, is trying a
subtler approach as a solo artist.
Plant's new style is paying off. His fourth album, "Now and
Zen," is No. 6 on Billboard's current pop sales chart. It has sold
more than 500,000 copies.
Plant also has become a popular concert attraction. He will
come to the Chicago area later this month to star in a May 29 rock
show at the Poplar Creek Music Theatre in northwest suburban Hoffman
Estates.
"A lot of people thought I was like some guy out of Pink Floyd
or Deep Purple, and that I was really going through the motions,"
Plant said. "It couldn't be further from ...