When it comes to rock and roll icons, it’s safe to say that Robert Plant is at the very top of the list. After all, there’s a reason why he’s been hailed as the “Golden God” of rock for decades. But what does the legend himself think when he looks back at the height of Led Zeppelin’s fame?
In a clip from his recent interview with BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, presenter Samira Ahmed asked Plant what he thinks about the fact that he helped to create the “God of rock and roll or rock god archetype” thanks to “his mane of long blond hair” and “powerful bare-chested appearance.”
“Well, I can’t remember what it must have been like,” he quipped, adding, “I’ve seen some photographs. I had some lovely jewelry.”
“I look back at it as part of the development of a guy who just avoided maintaining and actually getting my articles as a chartered accountant,” he continued. “So I look back, and I admire that kid.”
“There was no conception of there being a future to look back at things,” Plant admitted, adding, “You know, I couldn’t have imagined my existence beyond that very week that I was in…and never mind being 25, you know. So I think that whoever that kid was, he was definitely doing something special. And he was having a very good time.”
How Robert Plant almost became an accountant
In a 2020 interview with Louder, Plant opened up about abandoning his education as a teenager to pursue music.
“I didn’t know what I wanted to be, but I wasn’t going to push a pen for two quid a week and train to be an accountant,” he said.
Initially, Plant revealed, his family wasn’t thrilled with his decision.
“Well, I was bound for a proper job, and I’ve got one. Yeah, I had my moment of professional potential, and because I didn’t accept it I had to leave home when I was seventeen,” he recalled, adding, “So I toughened up pretty quickly. I made my peace with my parents a couple of years later. But it was good, it was what it should be.”
“I know so many guys from my time at school, who I still see and who are very funny and love life, but they did the wrong thing,” the singer continued. “They stuck with a family or whatever you were supposed to be doing, and they really rue the fact that it never really kicked in. They didn’t live their life, they lived the life that was required.”
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