Robert Plant's Desert Island Discs - Talks about Life/Career & more - Radio Broadcast 18/03/2022

Robert Plant talks about Alison Krauss, Songwriting, Childhood, Parents, Elvis Presley, School, Early Bands, Led Zeppelin, Meeting John Bonham, Dealing With Fame, Being A Family Man, Tragedies, Teaching, John Bonham's Death, Football and Re-Visiting Personal Archives.
Interviewed By: Lauren Laverne
Chosen Tracks:
DISC ONE: Pink Peg Slacks by Eddie Cochrane
DISC TWO: Serenade by Mario Lanza
DISC THREE: I Ain’t Superstitious by Howlin’ Wolf
DISC FOUR: Teenage Ska by Baba Brooks
DISC FIVE: Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
DISC SIX: Raha Gardishon Mein Hardam by Mohammed Rafi
DISC SEVEN: Diaraby by Ali Farka Touré with Ry Cooder
DISC EIGHT: Your Long Journey by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
BOOK CHOICE: The Earliest English Poems, translated by Michael Alexander
LUXURY ITEM: A basket containing photos of homing pigeons
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Serenade by Mario Lanza

[@energyexecs]

...As a young lad I remember my uncles and buddies had big baritone voices. I had a high tenor. Thus I liked doo-wap because it had room for a high tenor. I heard Robert Plant and realized it was okay to have a high tenor. Now that I am older I still have a high tenor and people like it! Life is so funny.

[@kcrossleKMC]

Very insightful; a perspective of a real person, as opposed to the figure I watched on stage back in 1968.

[@patriciamalone4473]

No one booked better in the tightest jeans possible and that hair and bluesy voice. He was always the total package.

[@marclevittdesign]

Sweet, articulate, and full of humility and insight - amazing!

[@krollpeter]

I can see how he became what he was. Smart and very articulate. Rare nowadays.

[@InnocentAbyssinianCat-eb7ge]

Nice hearing Robert plant 🪴 having memories of his mum having elocution lessons later in the 70s he and his peers in rock had lessons in electrocution at outdoor concerts on the occasions when it was pouring 🫗 with rain 🌧 and would get a shock 😲 🫨 from their equipment

[@udeychowdhury2529]

💚💚💚💚

[@user-1-800-spanked]

Karac is the proper spelling, show some frickin respect and learn how to spell correctly,

[@morganfisherart]

And Cochran!!

[@maltesetony9030]

LZ were plagiarists - a "covers band".

[@kcrossleKMC]

Thanks for brightening nothing.

[@maltesetony9030]

@@kcrossleKMC Better to know the truth.

[@KevKavanagh]

You're beyond useless.

[@imunchienandalusia]

and you wouldn't have known a single one of those songs they "plagiarized" had they not done so. This is such a tired, lame argument. LZ has an amazing catalogue, you sir, are an intellectually lazy, boring, hater.

[@BludknowsPM]

Honestly man, they’re the best rock band of all time, I don’t know why you say that like it’s gonna change anything 😂