Everything had happened so fast for the group. I look like what I was: a Black Country hippie full of high ideals and low-cost living. “And the first thing I notice is how young we are. “I look at the Albert Hall footage now,” Robert Plant said years later. A professional camera crew captured the entire thing. When they returned on January 9th, 1970, they came alone and extended their set to nearly two hours. Less than a year earlier, they’d been performing at London venues like Fishmonger’s Hall and Hornsey Wood Tavern, but on June 29th, 1969 they played the Royal Albert Hall alongside the Liverpool Scene and Mick Abraham’s Blodywn Pig. It’s too late - If Robert Plant had wanted to restart the band (as it really is up to him) he could have in the early 1990s, and made Rolling Stones-levels. See Where ‘Led Zeppelin’ Ranks on Our List of the 100 Best Debut Albums Answer (1 of 15): Question: Why is Robert Plant so averse to a Led Zeppelin reunion Outside observations (As no one can read his mind): 1. A year and a half of relentless touring had turned them into an unbelievably tight unit, and “Whole Lotta Love” was peaking at number four on the U.S. Listen to ‘Immigrant Song’ by Led Zeppelin, below.The Seventies were only nine days old when Led Zeppelin played the Royal Albert Hall, but it was already clear they could become the biggest band of the decade. Daltrey’s opinion provides brilliant insight into that point. To be honest, though, Robert Plant is undoubtedly one of the most iconic frontmen of all time, and without his input, Led Zeppelin wouldn’t have had that visceral, mythic edge that set them apart from their peers. “Teamwork makes the dream work”, as it goes.
Essentially, the “classic rock” era was a pioneering point in music that contained perpetual shoulder-rubbing between its most iconic acts. It comes as no surprise that one of the most iconic frontmen of all time would choose one of his peers as his ultimate “rock god”. Even Hendrix was starting to get tired then, moving into jazz.
In the most telling assertion on the advent of Led Zeppelin, Daltrey remembered: “All of a sudden, there was a new form of music,” he said, before adding: “The music scene was starting to get a bit tired. Jack Bruce of Cream was really a jazz and blues singer, but Robert knew how to rock.” They were like Cream, but with a lot more weight. In an honest take on the effect of Led Zeppelin, Daltrey masterfully paints the impact the long-haired quartet had: “We were well-schooled in that, but Zeppelin took it to another level. Not sure we’ll ever get that again when we’re ruled by bureaucrats in the European Union.”ĭaltrey then cast his mind back to the game-changing impact Led Zeppelin had when they burst onto the scene, “When Led Zeppelin first came out, I thought they were fantastic.” He places the Who in the picture as well, remembering playing shows with two of the ’60s most iconic acts: “Throughout our early history, we used to do loads of gigs with Hendrix and Cream, that three-piece-band-and-a-singer formula.” You got that because Britain was doing its own thing. Films, Theatre, Fashion, Art and Music… Britain was the centre of the world. The most exciting time ever – Britain was Swinging. Do you know what was going on before we went in? It was the 1960s. Memorably he said: “Whatever happens our country should never fear the consequences of leaving. Born in 1944, it is not hard to understand why many of his opinions are diametrically opposed to more contemporary ones.Īn interesting patchwork of ideas, the curly-haired leader of the Who was famously a proponent of the controversial Brexit vote and is a staunch Anglophile. An outspoken character embodying the outdated alpha male “rock god” himself, Daltrey comes from a generation who are markedly different to the ones that govern social media and opinion today. The Who’s iconic frontman Roger Daltrey is not afraid to speak his mind.
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