{"id":2007618,"date":"2025-09-08T23:40:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T23:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2007618"},"modified":"2025-09-08T23:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T23:40:19","slug":"led-zeppelin-wasnt-always-magnificent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/led-zeppelin-wasnt-always-magnificent\/","title":{"rendered":"Led Zeppelin Wasn&#8217;t Always &#8216;Magnificent&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Led Zeppelin<\/strong>&#8216;s former frontman, <strong>Robert Plant<\/strong>, 77, is getting candid about the band&#8217;s legacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/hughmcintyre\/2025\/09\/08\/robert-plant-admits-led-zeppelin-was-not-always-magnificent-quite-the-opposite\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Forbes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Forbes <\/a>reported that Plant discussed the long-lasting success of Led Zeppelin during a September 2025 interview on BBC Radio 2&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m002hng4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Folk Show;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Folk Show<\/a>, hosted by Mark Radcliffe. While speaking to Radcliffe, Plant dismissed the notion that he and his Led Zeppelin bandmates, which included <strong>Jimmy Page<\/strong>, <strong>John Paul Jones<\/strong>, and the late <strong>John Bonham<\/strong>, were always at the top of their game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cSometimes, as you quite rightly say, it was very, very tight and it was magnificent. Sometimes it was quite the opposite,&#8221; said Plant during the interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He then said he appreciated that Led Zeppelin, which found massive success in the 1970s, &#8220;was like the weather,&#8221; in terms of their live performances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt could be extraordinarily good or on the other hand perhaps not quite so magnificent. It wasn\u2019t sent down from the gods every day, every week,&#8221; said the English musician to Radcliffe.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">Robert Plant Discussed His Favorite Part of Being in Led Zeppelin in May 2024<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Forbes reported that Led Zeppelin broke up after Bonham&#8217;s 1980 death. According to the publication, the surviving band members have very occasionally performed together following the passing of Bonham. The band&#8217;s last album was Coda, released in 1982.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During a May 2024 interview with<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3tZnqRgi0qY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:AXS TV;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> AXS TV<\/a>, Plant shared his favorite part of being in Led Zeppelin. He said he enjoyed that &#8220;there was no structure&#8221; and &#8220;there was no charts&#8221; when he and his bandmates first broke out into the music scene. Instead, the band &#8220;were flying by the seat of [their] pants,&#8221; with no expectations or reservations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;There were no rules. Things were being developed. And the journey, nobody could plot it. It was just, &#8216;What do we do now? Oh maybe we&#8217;ll play somewhere bigger.&#8217; 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,&#8221; said Plant during the 2024 interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>This story was originally reported by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/parade.com\/news\/robert-plant-breaks-the-myth-led-zeppelin-wasnt-always-magnificent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Parade;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Parade<\/a> on Sep 8, 2025, where it first appeared in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/parade.com\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=parade.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Led Zeppelin&#8216;s former frontman, Robert Plant, 77, is getting candid about the band&#8217;s legacy. Forbes reported that Plant discussed the long-lasting success of Led Zeppelin during a September 2025 interview on BBC Radio 2&#8217;s The Folk Show, hosted by Mark Radcliffe. 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