Robert Plant stars in new ad for luxury high-speed Italian trainline

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The musician performs with his acoustic band Saving Grace in the ad

By Poppy Burton, 8th November 2024

Robert Plant has starred in an advert for a high-speed Italian trainline.

The new ad was filmed for Italy’s Trenitalia rail service and its Frecciarossa high-speed trains.

It features clips of the singer at a terminal in Rome, travelling on a train, and performing with his acoustic band, Saving Grace – whose cover of Low‘s ‘Everybody’s Song’ soundtracks the ad.

The solo artist and former Led Zeppelin frontman is also seen having coffee with Saving Grace vocalist Suzy Dian at the first-class Freccia Lounge, and chatting to her in another moment while travelling in one of Frecciarossa’s Executive Class train cars.

Earlier this year, Plant and Dian completed a UK headline tour, and performed as part of this year’s Teenage Cancer Trust concert series at London’s Royal Albert Hall in March.

Following the UK dates, Plant and Alison Krauss set off on a North American tour that wrapped in September, having last toured together in 2022, which itself was their first complete tour in 12 years.

In June, they shared a new version of Led Zeppelin‘s classic track ‘When The Levee Breaks’, the duo’s first single since their second collaborative album ‘Raise The Roof’ was released in 2021.

The latest version, which the pair had been performing on the North American tour, featured guitarist JD McPherson, drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Dennis Crouch, string player Stuart Duncan and multi-instrumentalist Viktor Krauss.

Elsewhere on the tour, the pair also performed Zeppelin classics ‘The Battle Of Evermore’ and ‘Rock And Roll’, as well as a medley that includes ‘Gallows Pole’.

 

https://www.nme.com/news/music/see-robert-plant-star-in-new-ad-for-luxury-high-speed-italian-trainline-3810826

 

[PinkyToe]

One of the biggest revelations in moving to Europe was the availability of rail and excellent public transportation in general pretty much everywhere. The US should have been on the leading edge of this but, never happened. 

[SteveAJones]

14 hours ago, PinkyToe said:

One of the biggest revelations in moving to Europe was the availability of rail and excellent public transportation in general pretty much everywhere. The US should have been on the leading edge of this but, never happened. 

Do I have to explain why? In the US the automobile is king. 

[PinkyToe]

8 hours ago, SteveAJones said:

Do I have to explain why? In the US the automobile is king. 

You don't have to do anything at all.