Led Zeppelin‘s former frontman, Robert Plant, 77, is getting candid about the band’s legacy.
Forbes reported that Plant discussed the long-lasting success of Led Zeppelin during a September 2025 interview on BBC Radio 2’s The Folk Show, hosted by Mark Radcliffe. While speaking to Radcliffe, Plant dismissed the notion that he and his Led Zeppelin bandmates, which included Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and the late John Bonham, were always at the top of their game.
“Sometimes, as you quite rightly say, it was very, very tight and it was magnificent. Sometimes it was quite the opposite,” said Plant during the interview.
He then said he appreciated that Led Zeppelin, which found massive success in the 1970s, “was like the weather,” in terms of their live performances.
“It could be extraordinarily good or on the other hand perhaps not quite so magnificent. It wasn’t sent down from the gods every day, every week,” said the English musician to Radcliffe.
Robert Plant Discussed His Favorite Part of Being in Led Zeppelin in May 2024
Forbes reported that Led Zeppelin broke up after Bonham’s 1980 death. According to the publication, the surviving band members have very occasionally performed together following the passing of Bonham. The band’s last album was Coda, released in 1982.
During a May 2024 interview with AXS TV, Plant shared his favorite part of being in Led Zeppelin. He said he enjoyed that “there was no structure” and “there was no charts” when he and his bandmates first broke out into the music scene. Instead, the band “were flying by the seat of [their] pants,” with no expectations or reservations.
“There were no rules. Things were being developed. And the journey, nobody could plot it. It was just, ‘What do we do now? Oh maybe we’ll play somewhere bigger.’ It was just like kids going from playing in the youth club behind the church, to the playing small clubs, to the acceleration into another place was crazy,” said Plant during the 2024 interview.
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