Certain British humour just doesn't translate abroad. Plant is a natural raconteur and extrovert and says a lot of stuff not meant to be taken seriously. Essentially him & JPJ are opposites: extrovert and introvert, Plant garrulous & JPJ laconic. Given his great mate Bonzo had huge respect for JPJ, I bet deep down Plant knows the band would never have been so good without Jones.

Robbie Williams is now in the news here for escaping a fire at some posh hotel in London. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44393663 It's all go right now for the fat dancer.

It can't be easy having to live next door to a gurning berk like Williams. That'd sap anyone's creativity. 😉

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44290922 Latest....

Isn't this significant? Iirc further back on this thread the latest BoJ date with Plant in the band was something like 16th/19th March 1968. Now this is the 30th. Or did they carry on using his name even after he'd left to go work with Alexis Korner? Edit: it's also the same venue Zeppelin played on 26th October 1968. Despite the name & address, Ewell College was actually sited closer to Epsom than Ewell.

That's the equivalent of £16,500 a week now, or $23,000 a week. Nice work if you can get it. Sutch was such a well known figure over here for his appearances in by elections. For some reason there was lots more by elections in the late 80s early 90s than there usually are. Every time, there he'd be, adding a bit of life and fun into some dull discussion of the EC or the poll tax or whatever. Many of his actual policies were thought of batty at the time, but are now law, like pubs opening all day.

Page later claimed that he'd been under the impression the recording sessions were a light hearted muck around, and then the record company threw them onto a released album without proper mixing, production etc, to make a quick buck. Hard to tell, because the record sounds alright to me (agree with SAJ, it's a blast!) but then again it's just the kind of thing record companies would do.

Disbelieve the Loch Ness monster theory. There aren't enough food sources in the area for a creature allegedly that size to survive for that long. (incidentally JP apparently believed in the existence of the Monster when he owned Boleskin. Don't know whether he ever said he saw it while he was up there...)

Believe: that someone other than Lee Harvey Oswald fired the fatal shot. Don't believe: that McCartney carked it in 1966 and got replaced by a lookalike.

I doubt it'll be that late. Plant might already have given the game away. When he said "we didn't get together till September", it felt a bit Freudian to me: i.e. he already knows it'll be that month. Of course it was actually August, but.....

Come on chillum, can't you see the game being played? Jimmy's obviously rented it as a rehearsal space. 😉

Wonder what the song they're playing is where Dreja is shaking the maracas? "Happenings" middle section?

If George isn't available then Terry (Bonzoleum)! I enjoyed the vid, especially the recreation of the head shake 6 minutes in.

And another enjoyable Saturday evening celebration in store for Percy. A week after clinching promotion, Wolves have won the Football League Championship title!

Congrats to Robert Plant's beloved Wolves, who have won promotion to the Premier League this evening. I'm sure he'll be drinking a pint of Thatchers or two!

Really enjoyed the '73 TSRTS you posted yesterday!

It'd answer the question of why there wasn't a Denver show in 1977. I'd assumed it was cos the McNichols arena wasn't built yet (and the Coliseum was too small), but it opened in '75.

You forgot the part about getting him to practise 6 hours a day....

Or perhaps Dwayne "The Rock" Leverock, Bermudan cricketer Although there would be a fairly obvious historical inaccuracy, it couldn't be more inaccurate than Ian Hart as Grant in "Vinyl"

I nominate Andy Fordham for the Peter Grant role. He's a big unit, as they say

I've felt for a while that Raising Sand was the moment when he stopped being "Robert Plant, former Led Zeppelin singer" and became "Robert Plant, singer". I suspect he feels if he goes back to Zeppelin in any live way that will go up in smoke and once more he'll be "the former Zep singer". To me it was significant he complained that he gave Page & Jones a copy of Raising Sand and neither complemented him on it (quoted in the Mick Wall book). It's clearly a record he's very proud of and rightly so imo. Guy Pratt said Plant had told him as far as he's concerned rock and roll's a young man's game, and that's that. I don't think he's being selfish or denying the fans anything at all.

2 days? Sir Geoffrey used to take three, and folk enjoyed it an all

This. Anyone expecting a show both electric & long is dreaming. I can just about imagine an acoustic half hour to launch a live multimedia exhibition-type thing, but only on the first night.

This is one of the best ever posts on here. Chapeau!